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I write to comment on the letter from Dr. Tom Giduz in the September 19 issue.
I believe that the National Association of Biomedical Research is correct in opposing changes in the regulations regarding the care of animals, since these changes would make research using animals all the more expensive and almost prohibitive. There have already been dramatic changes in the regulations regarding proper care of animals in research. It is correct for APA to be concerned about the appropriate care of research animals, but it is also important for APA to see to it that medical research can proceed.
The suggested changes and regulations would make conducting research so expensive and prohibitive as to seriously compromise the medical research community’s ability to sustain research on psychiatric and other medical disorders. It occurs to some of us that may be the very intention of some who press for more and more costly and complicated procedures and regulations for the conduct of animal research.
APA should endorse the work of the National Association of Biomedical Research, which has been outstanding in protecting the nation’s capacity to conduct animal research so critical to the development of some of the most important treatments and science developments of the decades.
Herbert Pardes, M.D.
New York, N.Y.