Medical schools swap pigs for plastic

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - 12:21 in Health & Medicine

Doctors used to try out their surgical skills on animals before being allowed to work on patients. Now just a handful of US medical schools still have animal labs. Meredith Wadman asks if they've lost a vital tool.

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