Call for national pet blood bank
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Leading UK vets say a national blood bank is needed to save the lives of injured dogs and cats.
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p2pnet.net OT News:- Experts are hoping a blood transfusion will save the life of a very rare baby elephant born a few days ago at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada.
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The holiday season can be particularly dangerous for some of your smallest family members. But now you can make the call in protecting your pets.
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You know itâs been a strange week when youâre mulling over cellular plans for your pet. But I seem to be doing just that. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based PetsMobility Networks is developing a phone that clips to your dogâs collar. Fido can hear his masterâs voice and, I suppose, respond in kind. Iâm not entirely convinced this is a good idea. I can just see Apache running up my cell bills with crank calls (âDo you have Alpo in the can?â).
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Â· Medical chief urges new donor schemeÂ· Observer launches reform campaign
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Six thousand people are to be told they may have been exposed to the human form of mad cow disease through blood products, the government says.
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CALGARY - Zoo officials hope a special blood transfusion will give a baby elephant the infection-fighting antibodies it needs that it would normally get from mothers milk.
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A new political party campaigning for animal rights across the UK is to be launched.
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The nation's two largest animal cloning companies are teaming up to voluntarily create a system to create a registry of their animals. The system would also require that cloned meat be identified to consumers.
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A new Web site is seeking to tug more forcefully on the heart strings of people who might adopt abandoned dogs by publicizing how much time is left before an animal is killed if a home has not been found.
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A blood substitute the military wants to test on civilian trauma victims is urgently needed to save lives on the battlefield in places like Iraq, a Navy official told federal advisers Thursday.
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Campaigners today call for urgent tests on the nation's farm animals after the emergence of a new strain of MRSA which has spread rapidly among farmers in Europe, causing an array of serious infections.
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Authorities and pet owners are beginning to raise serious questions about the safety and effectiveness of animal medicines, mirroring worries over human drugs like the painkiller Vioxx.
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A nationwide survey of people who sold blood during the early 1990s is to be launched to establish whether they have been infected with the HIV virus.
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Blood transfusion chiefs worry people could be put off donating by reports of blood being destroyed.
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Pretoria - Race was unacceptable in determining the health risk posed by donated blood, the department of health and the SA National Blood Transfusion Service decided in Pretoria on Friday.
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Pediatricians push the ultimate biological insurance policy -- a stash of umbilical cord blood to battle future illness -- as the government sets up a national blood-banking system. By the Associated Press.