http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Training basic surgical techniques on toy animals before having to perform operations on living animals makes veterinary students much less anxious. At the same time, the use of laboratory animals is minimised. This is documented by a new PhD thesis from LIFE - the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-surgery-toy-animals-lessens-anxiety.html Other Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:25:19 EST news240575105