A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...

Kamalan Jeevaratnam receives funding from British Heart Foundation, Horseracing Betting Levy Board, Hong Kong Jockey Club Equine Welfare Research Foundation, Petplan Charitable Trust, Grayson Jockey ...

Source: Mike Bossley/with permission. Increasing amounts of comparative research clearly show that diverse species of non-human animals (animals) display cultural traditions (such as tail-walking, ...

Jak the black cat, a research participant, lying in the sun. (Tina Thomas via SWNS) By Stephen Beech A new treatment for pet cats with head and neck cancers could help save human lives too, say ...

Deb Melser spends her days saving human lives as a nurse and her time outside of work on the wellbeing of the community’s most vulnerable animals. “Her commitment knows no bounds,” said Norman Animal ...

Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation is an all-volunteer nonprofit working to protect the welfare of shelter animals countywide, now urgently fundraising to preserve life-saving programs amid a ...

From drainage lines to treetops and even high-rise ledges, the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) has carried out more than 6,700 rescues of animals and birds between January and November this year, averaging ...

Only 10% of people around the world who need organ transplants actually end up receiving them, due to a shortage of suitable donors and extremely complicated logistics. Some scientists have therefore ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. If a book’s topic were “farms for the production of beagles for some ...

Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a New Orleans darkened by power outages to see "every star in the sky." It was early September 2005, a ...

When it’s freezing outside, snow is falling, or damp cold seeps into every crevice, not only do humans seek a sheltered, warm ...