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China Bans a Company?s Herbal Medicine (New York Times)
The Chinese government announced that it had banned the sale and use of a brand of herbal medicine after three people injected with it died and three others fell seriously ill.
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USDA Considering Action Against Puppy Mill Owner (CBS 2 Chicago)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering taking action to shut down a bad breeder that supplies dogs to pet stores here and across the country. CBS 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reports.
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Owner Charged For Horrific Puppy Mill Conditions (CBS 2 Chicago)
There are deplorable conditions inside a puppy mill that supplies thousands of dogs to pet stores and Internet buyers across the country, including Chicago. CBS 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reports that an exclusive videotape was recorded in Minnesota by an investigator for the Companion Animal Protection Society, called CAPS.
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TROUBLED ASS RELIEF PROGRAM (TARP) (Kitco.com)
As the precipitous drop of the Dow Jones index of industrial stocks to the 8600 level on Thursday shows, the $700 billion bailout is an exercise in futility. The rescue effort administers one wrong medicine after another.
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Chen joins Massachusetts Eye Associates (Burlington Union)
Burlington resident Vicki M. Chen, MD, was recently welcomed as an associate with Massachusetts Eye Associates in Chelmsford. Dr. Chen attended Boston University as an undergraduate and earned her doctor of medicine degree from the Boston University School of Medicine.
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Albuquerque helping pet owners in tough economy (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Albuquerque is trying to prevent pets from being abandoned by families and senior citizens who are having a tough time making ends meet and can no longer feed their dog or cat.
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Women dominate admissions at vet medicine schools (The Sentinel)
Odd hours, physical labor, blood, dirt and the occasional bite or kick. For generations, women were told veterinary medicine was too tough for them.
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Battling breast cancer (Northwest Herald)
WOODSTOCK – Anita Juarez of Woodstock began doing self breast exams after attending a Breast Cancer Awareness Month event in October 2007. Not long after, she felt a lump. She had a doctor check it about two weeks later, had an ultrasound done, and was told that it was a cyst.
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Prevention is the best medicine for heartworm (Bastrop Daily Enterprise)
Enterprise columnist Barbara Sharik has opened her heart and home to an “adorable, but scraggly” little dog named Buddy. Like any good pet owner, she is taking steps to keep him healthy.
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Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)
Due to the construction of an addition to Statler Hall, the short section of Campus Road between East Avenue and Hoy Road (between the two all-way stop signs) will be closed to vehicular traffic through Monday, Nov. 17.
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