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An organization of doctors protested at a regents meeting due to the Anschutz Medical Campus' purported use of live pigs for surgery training.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit of more than 17,000 doctor members, is appealing to Brown University’s governing body, the Corporation, for improvements to medical training in the joint Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital emergency medicine residency program.

PORTSMOUTH—During a protest led by an Army veteran and physician on Thursday, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine called on Naval Medical Center Portsmouth to end its lethal use of animals in a medical training course.

PORTSMOUTH—During a protest led by an Army veteran and physician on Thursday, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine called on Naval Medical Center Portsmouth to end its lethal use of animals in a medical training course.

A Sioux Falls doctor and a national group of physicians are bringing public pressure on Sanford Health to stop using animals in trauma training, while Sanford Health is defending the practice.

FARGO, N.D.—With a national petition and ads across Fargo, a national doctors group is asking Sanford Health’s leader to put an end to killing animals in its trauma training course—the only such course in all of the U.S. or Canada that continues the practice.