A Cow's Life: It Isn't All Clover
Review:
Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America's Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment, by Denis Hayes & Gail Boyer Hayes (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2015).
"Beef production is undermining the entire natural world--squeezing out wild animals, shredding ecosystems, slashing biodiversity." -- Denis Hayes & Gail Boyer Hayes
Grass-fed organic steers grazing in Penticon, British Columbia.
In the great tradition of American muck-raking (pun intended), this brilliantly written book on the cattle industry ropes you in with its folksy, down-to-earth tone and wry humor. Disarming or not, C...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
39 Breastfeeding Portraits That Celebrate Nursing Mamas
When photographer Melina McGrew posted a breastfeeding self-portrait on Facebook, she was surprised by some of the negative responses.
The Brooklyn-based photographer and mom of three took the photo when her second child was starting to wean. "I wanted to have a tangible memory of those cherished moments," she told The Huffington Post. "This self portrait encapsulates love and motherhood in all the little details I want to remember. But more importantly, it stands for strength and perseverance in the name of challenges."
According to McGrew, one woman commented on the photo, "I would be so ashamed if my mo...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 6, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Government of Canada announces simultaneous approval with the United States of veterinary drug Imrestor
Health Canada and the United States Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine today announced a simultaneous approval of the veterinary drug Imrestor. Access to this drug will provide Canadian dairy farmers with an innovative product to reduce the incidence of clinical mastitis, a significant infectious disease that affects approximately 15% of dairy cattle. (Source: Government of Canada News - Health Canada)
Source: Government of Canada News - Health Canada - March 25, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Health Canada Source Type: news
Mum who delayed chemo to have baby announces her newborn daughter has died
Heidi Loughlin discovered she had a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer after falling pregnant with her third child (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - December 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: chemotherapy mastitis breast cancer Heidi Loughlin Source Type: news
Humans carry more antibiotic-resistant bacteria than animals they work with
(Elsevier Health Sciences) One of the most common and costly diseases faced by the dairy industry is bovine mastitis, a potentially fatal bacterial inflammation of the mammary gland. Widespread use of antibiotics to treat the disease is often blamed for generating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. However, researchers investigating staphylococcal populations responsible for causing mastitis in dairy cows in South Africa found that humans carried more antibiotic-resistant staphylococci than the farm animals with which they worked. The research is published in the Journal of Dairy Science®. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 24, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Mastitis, the agonising infection that proved breast isn't always best:
Joanna Franks, one of Britain’s leading female breast surgeons,has warned that persevering with breastfeeding – even if it becomes painful – is putting mothers at risk of mastitis - breast infection. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 6, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Native Valve Endocarditis
Lactococcus garvieae is regarded as a veterinary pathogen, causing hemorrhagic septicemia in fish (1) and mastitis in cows (2). The organism has also been recovered from a variety of dairy products, such as unpasteurized milk (3) and cheese (4–6), as well as various meat products (5,6). L. garvieae is an uncommon cause of human infection, with only a limited number of cases reported worldwide (7–20). Most infections involve either native (7–11) or prosthetic (12–15) heart valves, but cases of osteomyelitis (16–17), hepatic abscess (18), and septicemia (19) have also been documented. (Source: Clinical Microbiology Newsletter)
Source: Clinical Microbiology Newsletter - November 9, 2014 Category: Microbiology Authors: Russell A. Rawling, Paul A. Granato Tags: Case Report Source Type: news
Everything You Need to Know About Mastitis
Women who are breastfeeding may experience breast pain and lumpiness -- and feel panic. It may be mastitis, a benign breast infection that is treated with antibiotics and simple home remedies. Read more to learn about mastitis. (Source: About.com Breast Cancer)
Source: About.com Breast Cancer - May 12, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: breastcancer.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
Mastitis – Benign Breast Infection
Women who are breastfeeding may experience breast pain and lumpiness -- and feel panic. It may be mastitis, a benign breast infection that is treated with antibiotics and simple home remedies. Read more to learn about mastitis. (Source: About.com Breast Cancer)
Source: About.com Breast Cancer - April 26, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: breastcancer.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
Mastitis – Benign Breast Infection
Women who are breastfeeding may experience breast pain and lumpiness -- and feel panic. It may be mastitis, a benign breast infection that is treated with antibiotics and simple home remedies. Read more to learn about mastitis. (Source: About.com Breast Cancer)
Source: About.com Breast Cancer - March 25, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: breastcancer.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
Pharmapex's Novel Mastitis Treatment Offers Hope to World Farmers
Efficient feed-based mastitis treatment boosts livestock health with unique microencapsulated technology.(PRWeb February 06, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11556048.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - February 8, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Urinary Tract Sepsis Caused by Lactococcus garvieae
This report describes the first case of bacteremia caused by the organism as a complication of urological surgery. (Source: Clinical Microbiology Newsletter)
Source: Clinical Microbiology Newsletter - February 7, 2014 Category: Microbiology Authors: Joe Dylewski Source Type: news
Poultry Lab Not Chicken About Developing Vaccine for Cattle
The Poultry Science Lab for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, run by Billy Hargis, has already developed vaccines to battle several diseases in poultry. Now, Hargis says, a pharmaceutical company recently contacted him about producing a vaccine to combat mastitis in cattle. Mastitis is a potentially fatal udder disease in dairy cows. (Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care)
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - December 9, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Badgers? They're killable as well as cute | Melissa Kite
Controversy over the badger cull underscores Britain's hypocrisy and anthropomorphic confusion over animalsDuring the last bovine tuberculosis crisis in May 2004, without realising what was to hit me, I blithely wrote an article about the need to cull badgers. Headlined "TB or not TB" (you see what they were doing there), the piece outlined the scientific evidence, of which there was plenty, in favour of culling to stop the spread of disease in cattle, and wondered at the strangely intense political battle that was raging about it then – as it is again now.The next decade saw my inbox clogged up with frantic em...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 28, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Kite Tags: Comment The Guardian Bovine tuberculosis Farming Rural affairs Animal welfare Animals UK news Badgers Environment Agriculture Science Wildlife Comment is free Source Type: news
Innate immunity system of sheep and goat herds against viral infections clarified
(Elhuyar Fundazioa) Biology and Biochemistry graduate, Paula Jáuregui Onieva, has undertaken research for her PhD thesis on the factors of restriction of innate immunity present in sheep and goats. In concrete, she investigated if these factors had antiviral activity so that, pending further studies, they could be used in preventing certain diseases of these animals, such as mastitis, arthritis, pneumonia and/or encephalitis. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 26, 2013 Category: Biology Source Type: news
