Pet Care

Callie’s Close Call with Life-threatening Lilies

The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) receives thousands of calls each year involving cats exposed to lilies. Lilies from the Lilium and Hemerocallis genera have been linked to acute kidney injury in cats after ingestion; and even a sniff of a small amount of pollen is enough to lead to concerns, as Callie’s owners […]

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Celebrities and Customers Call on Costco to Address Chickens’ Suffering

A recent investigation by Mercy For Animals into a Costco-supplying farm revealed chickens suffering from sores, injuries and horrifying, inhumane conditions. In response, we published a letter and appealed to Costco to address this urgent issue by adopting meaningful welfare standards. More than 100,000 advocates have signed the letter to the retailer’s executives, and a […]

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Researchers call for clearer disclosures about added sugars, diet sweeteners and percent juice on product packages

Current labeling regulations and practices fail to give parents and caregivers adequate information, and likely contribute to widespread consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks by young children, according to a new paper from researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut and School of Global Public Health at New York […]

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Researchers call for clearer disclosures about added sugars, diet sweeteners and percent juice on product packages

Current labeling regulations and practices fail to give parents and caregivers adequate information, and likely contribute to widespread consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks by young children, according to a new paper from researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut and School of Global Public Health at New York […]

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Prominent Scientists Call on CDC to Better Protect Workers From Covid

A prominent group of academics is pressing the Biden administration to move faster and take stronger action to protect high-risk workers from airborne exposure to the coronavirus, urging enforceable standards to help safeguard risky workplaces including health care, food processing and prisons. The researchers say that even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]

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Cody’s Curious Case: What Caused This Pup’s Close Call?

This month, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC)’s Case of the Month takes a look into Cody, a one-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who was not feeling himself one day. See how Cody’s symptoms lead to concern and how APCC helped in a scary situation.  On December 12, 2020, at 5:00 PM, Cody’s pet parents […]

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Experts call for Europe-wide COVID-19 targets

A group of more than 300 leading scientists across the globe are calling for European governments to work together in managing the pandemic and make a clear commitment to COVID-19 case number targets. The letter, co-authored by Dr. Deepti Gurdasani from Queen Mary University of London and coordinated by Viola Priesemann from the Max Planck […]

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Experts call for rejection of coronavirus policy based only on age

Experts are urging the Government to reject the formulation and implementation of policy to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic based solely on the age of the population, as well as calling on both the Government and media organizations to be cautious in their use of language. The British Society of Gerontology argue that fostering generational […]

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University of Otago psychiatrists call on colleagues to say no to euthanasia

The impact of legalizing euthanasia will be devastating on older people, the poor and disabled, according to two University of Otago psychiatrists who are calling on their colleagues both in New Zealand and internationally to oppose the move. Consultant psychogeriatrician Associate Professor Yoram Barak and Senior Lecturer Chris Gale, from the Department of Psychological Medicine, […]