Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine is a non-profit organization of doctors and laypersons working together for compassionate and effective medical practice, research, and health promotion.
Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine promotes preventive medicine through innovative programs:
- PCRM has led the way for reforms of federal nutrition policies.
- Its clinical research programs are breaking new ground in diabetes, cancer, and other serious conditions.
- PCRM’s Cancer Project has provided vital information to tens of thousands of people.
- The New Four Food Groups is PCRM’s innovative proposal for a federal nutrition policy that puts a new priority on health.
- Its public service announcement series features medical experts on prevention and health.
PCRM also encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research:
- PCRM opposes unethical human experiments. While great strides have been made in eliminating such experiments, problems remain. For example, children are still given synthetic growth hormone in experiments to make them taller, and both children and adults are exposed to unnecessary new drugs which have toxic effects.
- PCRM promotes alternatives to animal research. It has worked to put a stop to gruesome experiments, such as the military’s cat-shooting studies, DEA narcotics experiments, and monkey self-mutilation projects. PCRM also promotes non-animal methods in medical education. Currently, more than three-quarters of all U.S. medical schools have dropped their animal labs for medical students.
