Americans increasingly medicating pets
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With aging, it's become a routine faithfully endured by the Guffords. Each day starts with a blood sugar check and a shot of insulin. Then a couple of pills, maybe mashed into a bowl of tuna and canned carrots. Mixed with dry chow.
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Pet hamsters are a potential source of serious infection, U.S. health officials warned on Thursday.
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Millions of Americans have done just that. Thanks to them, a class of pain relievers called COX-2 inhibitors - Pfizer&#39;s Celebrex and Bextra, and Merck&#39;s Vioxx - have become blockbusters.
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PEOPLE looking to lose weight may want to trade in pills for a pooch. A first-of-its-kind experiment to put people and their pets on a diet and exercise program found that both lost weight and kept it off, though
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A growing number of children are taking combinations of powerful and even life-threatening medications to treat an array of problems.
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More than 40 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug, the government said in a report on the nation's health.
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Pet owners who find their dog chewing through the medicine cabinet now have a place to turn to for expert advice. Angell Memorial Hospital opened its animal poison control center hotline yesterday
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Across the United States, doctors are struggling to decide which pain relievers to prescribe now that they know that popular drugs like Vioxx and Celebrex pose potentially serious heart risks.
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U.S. prescription drug sales rose 8.3 percent to $274.9 billion last year, fueled by the Medicare drug benefit, increased use of generic medicines and new treatments for diseases such as cancer and diabetes, according to a new report.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People are not the only ones fighting the battle of the bulge, millions of dogs in the United States are overweight or obese, according to animal experts.
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Livestock herds are becoming million-dollar pharmaceutical incubators. Your next prescription may come from a chicken or a goat. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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America is "very concerned" about healthcare in retirement. That's okay with us.
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Prescription drug use among Americans has hit an all-time record high, according to the US Department of Health and Human Servicesâ annual check-up on Americansâ health.
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Forget worming pills and a flea collar -- a trip to the vet in Britain these days could be about heart surgery, joint replacement, chemotherapy or a host of other cutting-edge procedures.
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The year in medicine can be summed up best as the year Americans increasingly were forced to peer into their medicine cabinets with a wary eye.
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A survey of US households released Thursday finds almost half of Americans take at least one prescription medication and one in six take three or more.
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Dr. Robert Tucker, co-owner of Concord Animal Hospital, has witnessed firsthand the evolution of veterinary medicine from a profession that catered mostly to large farm animals to one that now focuses on the care of household pets.