Pet Care

Update: Animals from Massive Farm Cruelty Case Continue to Heal

blog_westport-update_091819_main.jpg Beginning in late July 2016, the ASPCA assisted in a cruelty case that would prove to be the largest-ever farm animal cruelty case in the Northeast. Close to 1,400 animals had been discovered living in deplorable and unsafe conditions on a 70-acre property in Westport, Massachusetts, that summer. Over the following few months, we helped with […]

Health News

11-Year-old used the wrong toothpaste, and she soon be dead

In the U.S. state of California, a girl died while brushing your teeth, after it responded to a milk protein in the toothpaste allergic. On the case of a specialist magazine reports. Therefore, Denise suffered from a milk Allergy – overlooked then, but a warning on the toothpaste Tube. About the tragic incident, the US […]

Personal Health

A case against a moratorium on germline gene editing

Should researchers put the brakes on genetically engineering babies? Leading scientists and ethicists recently called for a moratorium on clinical applications of germline gene editing: inheritable alterations to the DNA of embryos to improve kids’ health or other features – or just “gene editing,” for short. This declaration was prompted in part by the birth […]

Health News

Case report describes four breast cancer cases post transplant

(HealthDay)—A single multiorgan donor transmitted breast cancer to four transplant recipients, according to a case report published recently in the American Journal of Transplantation. Yvette A.H. Matser, from the VU University Medical Center in the Amsterdam, and colleagues reported four cases of breast cancer transmission to transplant recipients from a single organ donor. The donor […]