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Contamination of the Environment by Antibiotics Fed to Livestock

... purposes. Large amounts of antibiotics from these animals end up as manure, which is commonly applied to agricultural land to provide crop nutrients. Therefore, food crops grown on manure-altered soils are exposed to antibiotics. A study, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is lo...

Foot-and-mouth Disease Outbreak Forces Thiruvananthapuram Zoo to Shut Down

..., which causes severe weight loss in cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle and hogs....

Researchers Develop First Mouse Model of Lung Transplantation

...del has an advantage over those in rats and larger animals because the genetics of mice are well documented and their genes are easier to manipulate. With the mice, we can selectively delete genes to study their function in the transplanted lung or in the recipient, which weve not been able to do effectiv...

Insulin Sensitizer- Energy Conserving Signal to Brain

...ce, AMPK activity in the brain slowed, causing the animals to eat less and expend more energy. That action, in turn, made the animals resistant to becoming obese even on a high-fat diet. Moreover, animals lacking adiponectin lost more...

Cancer Cures for Canines

...cause cancer is cancer. It is a similar disease in animals and humans. More information is available from Dr Ali Mobasheri on +44 (0) 9516449, ali.mobasheri@nottingham.ac.uk or Media Relations Manager Lindsay Brooke in the University's Media and Public Relations Office on +44 (0)115 9515793, lindsay.brooke...

Tumours in Dogs may Give Insight into Human Cancer Development

...cause cancer is cancer. It is a similar disease in animals and humans, Dr Mobasheri said. He presented these suggestions at the one-day symposium entitled 'Curing Canine Cancer Human Cancer Benefit', organised by the Colorado based Morris Animal Foundation....

Lobster Shells Have Great Healing and Antiseptic Properties

...a very common polymer present in nature as part of animals and plants physical structures. Only cellulose is more abundant than chitin, which makes this compound a highly important renewable resource that can easily be found in arthropods, insects, arachnids, molluscs, fungus and algae. The fishing industr...

Vets To Team Up With Human Health Specialists

...ealth officials of America, doctors who look after animals are best placed to deal with recent human health s...convention. Gerberding went on to say that since animals share the same food and water supply as humans, and have greater contact with the elements, their si...

Rats Back on the Menu in Southern China

... in 2003, authorities banned the sale of many wild animals including rats amid fear that the deadly disease c...community is not in agreement over whether certain animals can spread the disease, vendors in China are no longer allowed to sell wild animals. After its eme...

PETA Hails McCartney for Boycotting Animal-testing Charities

... decision to boycott cancer charities that test on animals . The former Beatle, who has supported cancer charities since his first wife Linda died of the disease in 1998, recently revealed that he is planning to decline financial support to organisations that practice vivisection. McCartney said that he ...

Sensible Diet, Exercise and Weight Control Increases Longevity

...ercent longer than normal mice. Whats more, the animals lived longer, even though they had characteristics that should shorten their livessuch as being overweight and having higher insulin levels in the blood, said White. However, both sets of Irs2 knockout mice exhibited other characteristics that mar...

Dog Fighting in the US: Bloody, Illegal and Booming

...ederal grand jury with having trained and provided animals for dog fights since 2001. As part of the dog fi...'s property in southern Virginia, with many of the animals chained to cars close enough to agitate each other but too far away to bite -- a common tactic to pr...

Novel Method of Adult Stem Cell Growth may Help to Treat Cornea Disorders

...imbic insufficiency showed that 60 per cent of the animals had recovered the corneal epithelium after the adult stem cells transplant. The corneal epithelium is the layer that is damaged with limbic insufficiency, a problem that results in opacity of the cornea in the long term. According to researcher...

Chinese Eco-tourism Causing Infanticide Among Tibetan Monkeys

...hey also collected data while tourists visited the animals between 1992 and 2004, including a span in 2003 wh...or food in the designated feeding areas. As the animals became more aggressive, overall infant mortality rose from 14.8 percent to 54.6 percent. Frans de...

Pediatric Use of ADHD Drug may Affect Developing Brain

...their more physically active night-time phase. The animals continued receiving the injections up until they w...mans. "One thing to remember is that these young animals had normal, healthy brains. In ADHD-affected brains where the neurochemistry is already somewhat aw...

Child Health Key Focus Among Muslim Nations

...pt of halal, pork and its by-products, alcohol and animals not slaughtered according to Koranic procedures are all 'haram', or forbidden under Islam. 'The conference ... calls on OIC member states to take concerted actions to disseminate accurate, reliable and trusted information to (Muslims), emphasizing t...

Taiwan Bans Circuses from Importing Protected Animals

...ban circuses from importing or exporting protected animals in an effort to improve protection of animal right...w passed late Thursday, all imports and exports of animals such as lions, tigers, elephants and monkeys are prohibited unless they are needed for research, sai...

Europe's Last Dancing Bears Sheltered After Years of Abuse

...hey respect me," Veselin fumbled around, while the animals were caged and prepared for the 500-kilometre (310-mile) journey to Europe's only dancing-bear shelter, near the village of Belitsa, in southwestern Bulgaria. Back in the courtyard, Veselin's grand-nephew Dimitar affectionately hugged and kissed hi...

Gene Study Throws Up New Targets for Leishmaniasis

...flies, who tuck in to a blood meal on humans, wild animals and dogs. Around 350 million people in 88 countries are "at risk" of the disease, whose incidence has risen sharply over the past decade, according to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a British medical research charity that led the genome compari...

Lead Scare Causes Thomas to Derail

...cts which were found to contaminated. Thousands of animals in the United States were poisoned from pet food additives made in China, one of a series of incidents that have exposed lax controls in Beijing's food quality control system. "At this time, there have been no reports of illness or injury as a resu...

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