Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and while chocolate, flowers, and a card are standard Valentine’s Day fare, what about sending a special message to the one(s) you love as well?  We can help with that! Share your words of love this Valentine’s Day and help The Puppy Up Foundation fight cancer in pets and people at the same time. Helping those touched...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have released a study regarding arsenic exposure to dogs consuming a food containing rice (high on the ingredient list). “Hair arsenic level in rice-based diet-fed Staffordshire bull terriers” compared the arsenic levels in hair analysis of dogs fed a diet high in rice (rice listed as the first or second ingredient) to dogs fed a diet with no...

Dr Solomon Chollom, a Virologist with Virology Research Division of National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, Plateau, says “the new researched cancer treatment called T-cell is a viable option for the treatment of all cancers.” Chollom told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja, while reacting to the novel cancer treatment option by researchers at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. The virologist said the...

A good death. That is our responsibility to the animals under our care, if we can possibly give them one. It isn’t always possible – they get lost, hit by a car, burned by a fire, swept away in a flood, poisoned by contaminated feed. It’s a dangerous business – this thing called living. Sometimes we get lucky. Those under our care live a...

It’s a new year, and there’s a new way to help Puppy Up fight cancer. Help those touched by cancer see a brighter future by donating $20.20 each month to fund cancer awareness, education and research. Your monthly support will also help us develop new educational programs for pet parents, showing them how to check their pets for lumps and bumps. Do you know...

(by Sally Writes) Separation anxiety is a common behavior disorder in dogs, with veterinarians at the Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine stating that it affects between 20% and 40% of all dogs. The main trigger for pooches facing this condition is the absence of ‘their person.’ When they miss you, they can engage in many destructive behaviors that can include crying, urinating indoors, barking, chewing on...

T-cell recognised and destroyed most types of cancers, ignoring healthy cells It killed off 10 types of cancer including lung, skin, blood, colon, breast and bone Opens door to a ‘one size fits all’ cancer treatment in the future, scientists claim By Connor Boyd Health Reporter For Mailonline Exciting new cancer therapies could be on the horizon after scientists discovered an immune cell that kills...

By Jonathan Saltzman Drugs for diabetes, inflammation, alcoholism — and even for treating arthritis in dogs — can also kill cancer cells in the lab, according to a study by Massachusetts researchers who tested thousands of approved medicines and experimental compounds in a search for unrecognized cancer-fighting properties. The study, by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,...

Area veterinarians and other animal health care professionals came to the VCA Aurora Animal Hospital Wednesday night to network and view the new Varian Halcyon Linear Accelerator that is being used to treats pets with cancer. The event included an overview about how the VCA Pet CancerCare Alliance operates as well as the chance to listen to resident Dr. Meagan Sowders, a member of...