Arizona State University awarded $6.4M grant to test preventive cancer vaccine for dogs Source January 3, 2018 Grant will support the largest interventional canine clinical trial ever conducted The Open Philanthropy Project awarded a multi-year grant of $6,421,402 to Stephen Albert Johnston at Arizona State University to support the largest interventional canine clinical trial ever conducted. The trial will assess the effectiveness of a...

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Major Study Indicates That Therapy Dogs Provide Significant Benefits to Families of Children Undergoing Treatment for Cancer From Life Pulse Health By Robert Swanson December 22, 2017 WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2017 — Dogs have long been called Mankind’s best friend, but a major new scientific study now indicates that a dog may also be a family’s best friend in times of their greatest need....

  Many of us have been concerned about the short and long term affects dealing with recurring stressful situations, like serving as therapy dogs, affect the dogs themselves. This study finds that the dogs seem to manage OK. HABRI-funded study finds dogs are not stressed when visiting pediatric cancer patients. WASHINGTON (PRWEB) January 02, 2018 Source Jamie Baxter, Author The Human Animal Bond Research...

This is the perfect time of year to start any journal, but a journal is especially helpful if you have a dog with cancer or any long term condition or disease. In this article, Amber Drake points out how important it is to keep track of your dog’s progress, treatments, etc.. You can do this on a computer, but the act of physically writing...

In this article, author Christopher Dale writes about the tick-borne disease ehrlichia, and how his veterinarian helped his dog Vector survive this autoimmune disease. While the article doesn’t address cancer, it does point out how important it is to have a veterinarian who works with you and keeps you informed, is thorough and compassionate in the treatment he undertakes with you and your dog,...

We wish everybody a happy and healthy New Year from all of us at The Puppy Up Foundation. We thought we’d close out 2017 with a few ideas for a better 2018 for you and your dog. By C.J. Find the complete article, including all the links, from Dog Time  here. Can you believe another year has come and gone? Where does the time...

From Decoded Science While chemotherapy for canine lymphoma kills cancer cells, it also hinders the work of the dog’s own immune system. Researchers at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found that t-cells, an important part of the immune system, taken from a dog before chemotherapy is begun, can be cultured to produce more t-cells and then...

By Brigitte Cutshall, Contributor Executive Director and Health Advocate This article was written by Bridgitte Cutshall and dedicated to her dog Bebe, a beautiful Great Pyrenees who passed away on 12/11/2017, just 3 months shy of her 10th birthday. Huffpost We all have different reasons to have a pet. My husband likes to joke that I prefer dogs over humans. The love of animals...