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Higher Lead Content Causes Recall of Toys

Bendable cat and dog toys distributed to children as reading in...ublic libraries purchased more than 7,000 bendable cat and dog toys, has discontinued sale of this item and recommended all libraries cease distribution of...

Replacing Old Mattress, Adding Ventilation Reduces Mites

...Another study that resulted from the survey showed cat allergens may be present in homes that are cat-fre...s determinants and relationship to specific IgE to cat across European Centers,” measured the quantity of cat allergen in mattress dust, and then analyzed ...

Babies Prone To Allergies More likely To Be Asthmatic

...ild had become sensitive to allergy triggers, like cat hair, during their early years. They also mentioned that these at-risk children were also likely to be constantly wheezing in their first three years. The researchers in their article have also suggested that future research into pre-school preventat...

Dogs aggravate asthma in kids

...ic cough, phlegm production (bronchitis) and dog & cat ownership in 475 children. Dr. Rob McConnell, professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, performed this study. The asthmatic kids involved in the Children's Health Study, "a longitudinal stu...

Allergy-less Cats Available For ￡2,500

...d. "This is a natural gene divergence within the cat DNA - one out of 50,000 cats will have this divergence. So naturally divergent cats were found and then bred so there is really no modification of the gene," said company spokesman Steve May. The cost of these cats is ￡2,000 ($3,950) each with an a...

Stress Produces PTSD-like Symptoms in Rats

...and pharmacology at USF. “Rats were exposed to a cat for one hour,” Zoladz said. “No physical harm came...cats, the inability of the rats to escape from the cat would be traumatic, and that the experience would be analogous to the terror that people feel in lif...

When Your Pet Forgets Who You Are

... cats.// Researchers Dr. Danielle Gunn- Moore, a cat expert and her husband Dr. Frank Gunn-Moore who works with Alzheimer’s patients came up with this find when they observed certain behavioral changes in their eight-year-old cat. Investigations led to the discovery of proteins found similarly in ...

Telomerase Expression Linked To Body Mass

...e don't know that if you put mice in a cage so the cat can't eat them, 90 percent of them will die of cancer," says Gorbunova. Evolution, it seems, has determined which species are allowed to express telomerase in their somatic cells in order to maintain a delicate balance between cells that live long,...

New Findings on Toxoplasmosis

... medical advice that pregnant women avoid changing cat litter, but it's gaining new attention because of ...ing soil or anything that has come in contact with cat feces. "It's a complex cell just likes ours in terms of metabolism and biochemistry, which makes i...

Findings on Dangerous Parasite, Toxoplasma Gondii Published

... medical advice that pregnant women avoid changing cat litter, but it's gaining new attention because of ...ing soil or anything that has come in contact with cat feces. "It's a complex cell just likes ours in terms of metabolism and biochemistry, which makes i...

Dog Owners Definitely Healthier

...ng a dog definitely pays better than even owning a cat as dog owners seem to maintain a better health over longer periods as against cat owners. One study showed that dog owners suffered lesser colds and headaches and maintained this phe...

Cat Owners at Risk of Bird Flu

...ws that should bird flu ever break out in Britain, cat owners should be particularly on their guard. S... in 2004, and tigers and leopards - members of the cat family - died in Thai zoos in the same year. Last year three cats died in Germany after eating wild...

Consumers Warned of Using Cat Food Due to Salmonella Contamination

...cted with Salmonella if they handle or ingest this cat food, touch pets that consumed the food, or touch ... cat, but by contact with the pet food, food bowl, cat box and surfaces exposed to these items, so it is important that they thoroughly wash their hands wi...

An Anti-rabies Campaign With Bite

...biggest animal hospital ASHARI here besides a huge cat shelter. Said WHO chief spokesman H.K. Pandey: "Since over 90 percent of the rabies cases are due to dog bite, what India needs to do is to vaccinate dogs. The dog population in India is much higher as compared to any other country and the canines ...

90 Brands of Pet Food Recalled from the Market Following Death of 10 Animals

...as recalled 50 brands of dog food and 40 brands of cat food. The "cuts and gravy" style products, usually sold in cans and pouches, are marketed across the nation by popular retailers - Wal-Mart, Safeway and PetSmart. The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to refrain from using the prod...

New Study Reveals That Firefighters Are Prone To Heart Attack

...han during non-emergency duties such as rescuing a cat from a tree. Stefanos Kales of Harvard Medical School and colleagues say episodic physical and psychological stress, carbon monoxide and toxic chemicals in smoke, and lack of physical fitness appeared responsible for it. Even though fire suppressi...

Two More Pet Food Products Recalled in US

...rer Menu Foods recalled 60 million cans of dog and cat food after the deaths of 16 pets, mostly cats, tha...luntarily recalled more than 100 brands of dog and cat food across the nation since March 16 this year. Although many different types of pet food are aff...

Cats at Home Poses Allergy Risk in Young Children

Cats and cat allergens in the home clearly raise the risk of th...e of the environment at home on the development of cat allergen sensitization decreases. This is the conclusion reached by scientists from the GSF – Natio...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

...rium identified about 10 years ago as the cause of cat scratch disease: Bartonella henselae, which infect...ered that the Bartonella henselae bacterium causes cat scratch disease, an infection that causes swollen lymph nodes and fever after a cat scratches its ow...

One-sixth of Europe's Mammals Face Extinction, Warns Conservation Experts

...x, for example, is the world's most endangered big cat only an estimated 150 are thought to remain. The Arctic fox and European mink face similar plights. This new assessment proves that many European mammals are declining at an alarming rate. The assessment shows that the situation is even more ...

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