By Patricia Jordan, DVM From Dogs Naturally Have you ever been confused by your dog’s blood work results? The numbers you get from your dog’s blood tests can be baffling, and sometimes veterinarians don’t do a good job of explaining them. A liver enzyme test can be especially difficult to understand. The letters that appear on your dog’s test results will probably include AST,...

From Simple Most By Brittany Anas You probably already know the range of health problems associated with smoking cigarettes: The nicotine and tar can cause cancer, chronic bronchitis, emphysema and heart disease. Smoking can even affect your DNA! But, did you know that cigarette smoke circulating inside a home can also have harmful effects on the pets who live there? Several studies have examined...

As we all know, sound nutrition is one of the basic foundations of sustaining the health of our dogs. It’s also one of the first things we reexamine when our dog has been diagnosed with cancer or any other serious disease. A balanced diet, appropriate to the needs of our particular dogs (age, breed, activity level, etc.), is one of the few things we...

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Very Well Article Source By Indranil Mallick, MD | Reviewed by Doru Paul, MD T-cells are a subtype of white blood cells which play a key role in the immune system and fighting cancer. Let’s break down the immune system into parts to make it easier to understand. There are 2 primary types of white blood cells (leukocytes): lymphocytes and granulocytes. Lymphocytes, in turn, are...

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...

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...