Archive for the ‘Veterinary’ Category
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
ensurApet, Inc. (OTCBB:EPTI), a provider of pet health insurance, announces that it anticipates becoming a leader in the rapidly growing US market for pet health insurance through a network of veterinary hospitals.
CEO Russell Smith stated, "The United States has the largest population of companion animals in the world, with some ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
When Temple Grandin argued that animals and autistic savants share cognitive similarities in her best-selling book Animals in Translation (2005), the idea gained steam outside the community of cognitive neuroscientists. Grandin, a professor of animal science whose best-selling books have provided an unprecedented look at the autistic mind, says her ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Cougars have been under siege in the United States since the arrival of European settlers, victims of extirpation campaigns and habitat destruction as inhabitants converted wilderness to farmland and pasture. These campaigns eliminated Puma concolor in the East (save for a remnant population in Florida) during the 1880s, and now ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Researchers from Monash University and CSIRO Livestock Industries have demonstrated for the first time that alpha-toxin protein, long thought to be required for necrotic enteritis to develop, is not the main cause of the chicken disease. The study, published February 8 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, provides insight into ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Vsurance, Inc. (OTCBB:VSUR) a leading provider of pet health insurance, announced that the Company will provide insurance for new pet owners designed to mitigate the risk that comes with purchasing a new pet.
A November 16, 2007 USA Today article entitled: "States Consider Laws to Protect People from Puppy Lemons" focused ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Despite being entirely preventable, through vaccination and prompt medical treatment, rabies continues to kill over 55,000 people annually. Mostly children and mainly in Africa and Asia, it is easy for those in a country free of the disease to forget its impact, yet two-thirds of the world's population still live ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Diabetes patients could benefit from new research at the University of Liverpool that has identified a molecule in the intestine that can 'taste' the sugar content of the diet.
Researchers found that the sweet taste receptor that senses sugar and artificial sweeteners is not only present in the tongue, but also ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico issued an Order of Permanent Injunction against J.M. Dairy Inc. and Las Martas Inc., and Juan Manuel Barreto Ginorio, the owner of the dairies, after illegal drug residues were found in cows.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is concerned ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Member States expressed their support for the measures taken by the UK, and reinforced by the Commission, to control the recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey. Following an update on the disease situation by the UK delegation, the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health voted unanimously ...
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