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Entries for June 2014
Posted on June 18, 2014 16:01
Current medical tests to screen for prostate cancer are not always accurate, but a new screening technique using dogs may help solve this issue. A study by Italian researchers has found that specially trained dogs can detect prostate cancer in urine samples with an accuracy rate of 98 percent.
Dogs are already being used to detect various forms of...
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Posted on June 18, 2014 16:01
A study has found that both humans and their companion animals have the same shared population of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria.
The study was led by Mark Holmes, senior lecturer in preventive veterinary medicine at the University of Cambridge in England. Holmes said, “Our study demonstrates that humans and companion ...
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Posted on June 15, 2014 16:01
The process of hybridizing shepherd dogs and wolves may be more common and recent than previously assumed in the Caucasus, according to a new study. The researchers of this study found that around 10 percent of the dogs and wolves they sampled had recent hybrid ancestry and around 2-3 percent of the sample population were first-generation wolf-dog ...
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Posted on June 15, 2014 16:01
A new report has revealed that pets in the U are growing fatter, with the number of overweight animals rising in the past five years and the cost of treating obesity-related conditions rising to around GBP 215 million per year.
The problem has been found to be worse in dogs with an obesity/overweight incidence rate of 45 percent versus a rate of 4...
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