Health News

AI estimates a person’s risk of dying from heart disease

AI can estimate a patient’s risk of dying from heart disease by analysing just 15 minutes of scans, scientists claim Massachusetts Institute of Technology created a system called RiskCardio The technology was made for patients with acute coronary syndrome Draws on sample of ECG data to sort a patient into a ‘risk category’  Scientists in […]

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 […]

Pet Care

Transformed: From Injured Stray to Beloved Pet

larry-a41619732_2019june4_0002-1040×695.jpg When Sylvia F. spotted and approached a tangerine-colored male cat behind a Manhattan housing complex at 99th Street and Second Avenue on May 7, she noticed an alarming gash on the underside of the cat’s neck. She scooped up the injured stray and immediately hopped on a bus to the ASPCA Animal Hospital, where Dr. […]