UC Davis Veterinary Medicine   From Study Pages Background and purpose Nasal tumors can cause severe nasal bleeding or discharge and difficulty breathing. These tumors often aggressively spread throughout the tissues of the nasal cavity and into the surrounding organs, including the eye and brain. Radiation therapy is the treatment of choice for nasal tumors in dogs; however, radiation therapy isn’t often good for...

From: Marshall News Messenger   As a dog ages, several changes may occur besides a greying muzzle. Senior dogs have more health concerns than younger dogs, but they can still make playful, loving companions. Harmony Peraza, a veterinary technician and the study subject manager for the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ Dog Aging Project, discusses the most common health conditions...

10 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Service Dogs by Kea Grace From Anything Pawsable They guide, listen, balance, lead and love. They provide friendship and independence, freedom and peace of mind. They live to serve their handler to the fullest extent of their capability, be it through retrieving dropped items, offering physical support to an unsteady handler or alerting a Deaf or hard of hearing...

Disclaimer The Puppy Up Foundation does not endorse nor recommend any particular product, service, or treatment. We offer  information strictly for educational and/or informational purposes. We believe it is the pet owner’s responsibility to do the research and draw his or her own conclusions.   A leading veterinary cannabis researcher explains what experts do and don’t know about giving animals CBD. By Danielle Kosecki...

Summary: Natural Killer (NK) cells have long been the soldiers of the immune system that prevents the growth and spread of cancers, and subduing this army of cells is one of the key ways that tumours take hold. Researchers have discovered a protein that prevents NK cells from doing their job fighting cancer. Importantly the study reveals that blocking this protein turbo charges the...

Summary: Scientists have found a vulnerability in cancer cells that could make them more susceptible to being destroyed by the immune system, according to a new report.   From Science Daily Scientists have found a vulnerability in cancer cells that could make them more susceptible to being destroyed by the immune system, according to a new report in eLife. The discovery could make it...

August 29, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an update on the continuing investigation into contaminated pig ear pet treats connected to human salmonellosis infections. Both the FDA and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) continue to warn to avoid all pig ear pet treats and retailers to stop selling all pig ear treats at this time. The CDC is reporting...

(Hopefully, this can be applied to diagnosing cancer in our companion animals as well.) University of Notre Dame http://universityofnotredame.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/i/1521EA068C4018522540EF23F30FEDED/CC808996BABAA3626A4D3D471B02C3D7 Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have received $2.9 million to develop a new diagnostic platform that could diagnose cancer in as little as three hours by using only one or two drops of blood. With the award from the National Institutes of Health,...

Advanced, collaborative pet cancer care provided by North America’s preeminent network of oncologists at 35 state of the art medical centers From: PR Newswire SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — VCA Animal Hospitals announced today the launch of its network of 35 VCA Pet CancerCare™ Centers across North America. At VCA Pet CancerCare Centers, multidisciplinary oncology teams will design individualized treatment plans...