Sentences with phrase «of animal health studies»

A co-founder of Banfield Pet Hospital and an aviation business owner have joined the 16 - member board of trustees at Morris Animal Foundation, a longtime leader in the funding of animal health studies.

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Previously, she studied animal science at Cornell University before earning her her master's degree at NYU School of Journalism Science, Health and Enviornmental Reporting Program.

The study, conducted by Eli Lilly's (lly) Elanco Animal Health division at the request of the National Chicken Council, said that if one - third of U.S. broilers switched to slower growing breeds, that would mean 33.5 billion pounds more feed, 7.6 million acres / year more land, 28.5 billion pounds of manure, and 5.1 billion additional gallons of water.

Animal studies of the chemical have found it has no health effects on reproduction or development at doses up to at least 100 mg per kg of body - weight per day.

At GFI, Isaac Emery studies the significant environmental and human health impacts of industrial animal agriculture and evaluates the reduced impact of plant - based and clean meat.

Ganeden now has a wide stable of peer - reviewed published studies, and more than 120 patents for probiotic technologies in the food, beverage, animal health, sports nutrition and personal care ingredients markets.

University of Michigan Health System, High - Fiber Diet Keeps Gut Microbes From Eating The Colon's Lining, Protects Against Infection, Animal Study Shows

Rembiałkowska, prof. Ewa (2006) Animal dietary intervention study of effect of organic vs conventional food production methods on health and well — being of rats.

«Nutritionists, political economists and epidemiologists at Oxford will study how animal foods affect health and the environment and they will then work with Sainsbury's to present those findings in ways people can understand,» said Sarah Molton, head of Our Planet, Our Hhealth and the environment and they will then work with Sainsbury's to present those findings in ways people can understand,» said Sarah Molton, head of Our Planet, Our HealthHealth.

so often they just look at potential markers — but those don't always equate to diseases)- what was the health of the those being studied - I'm assuming the test subjects were people, but other studies done on animal subjects might not be as reliable as those done on humans.

Because epigenetics is the real driver of your health status, and diet plays a major role in gene expression (aka epigenetics), at least in this post's animal study!

Numerous studies have linked diets higher in plant protein than animal protein to reduced risk of heart disease, cancer, and other health ailments.

Researchers writing in the Archives of Women's Mental Health, reviewed 10 medical studies including four with humans and six on animals.

Independent studies have conclusively shown adverse health effects of BPA on the brain and reproductive system, as well as metabolic diseases in laboratory animals.

Studies in experimental animals have linked high doses of food dyes to health problems, among them organ damage, cancer, birth defects, and allergic reactions.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Forward - thinking scientists, many with funding from PETA and its international affiliates, are developing methods for studying diseases and testing products that don't require the use of animals and are actually relevant to human health.

«We approached this problem many years ago and have seen all kinds of studies, and there isn't anything definitive to say that antibiotics in livestock cause harm to people,» says Richard Carnevale, vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs at the Animal Health Institute, which represents the manufacturers of animal drugs, including those for liveAnimal Health Institute, which represents the manufacturers of animal drugs, including those for liveanimal drugs, including those for livestock.

Nick Phin, head of respiratory diseases at Public Health England, thinks the study relies too much on animal data.

The National Institutes of Health oversees studies of mice, along with rats and birds; the U.S. Department of Agriculture monitors larger animals.

This study is among several funded under a public - private partnership established in 2008 between NICHD and the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars Inc., to establish a human - animal interaction research program to support studies relevant to child development, health, and the therapeutic use of animals.

According to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, companion animals — like dogs, cats or the guinea pigs in the study — may prove to be a helpful addition to treatment programs designed to help children with ASDs improve their social skills and interactions with other people.

Disease in wild animals can have a greater impact on the health of others than on the infected animals themselves, a study suggests.

«The chemicals produced by cooking meats at high temperatures induce oxidative stress, inflammation and insulin resistance in animal studies, and these pathways may also lead to an elevated risk of developing high blood pressure,» said Gang Liu, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.

Fouchier's study «raises a red flag», says Ilaria Capua, an animal - flu expert at the Experimental Animal Health Care Institute of Venice in Legnaro, animal - flu expert at the Experimental Animal Health Care Institute of Venice in Legnaro, Animal Health Care Institute of Venice in Legnaro, Italy.

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

The future studies on animals and humans are being supported by the Strategic Health Innovation Partnerships, a unit of the South African Medical Research Council, with funding from the Department of Science and Technology.

New evidence from animal studies supported by the National Institute of Mental Health suggests that a specific gene may affect learned fearfulness.

In a new animal study, University of Missouri researchers examined how the development of obesity and insulin resistance contribute to bone - fracture risk and whether exercise prevents weight gain and diabetes and protects bone health.

Eating meat from animals grazed on land treated with commonly - used agricultural fertilizers might have serious implications for pregnant women and the future reproductive health of their unborn children, according to a new study involving sheep.

The study did not check the health of wolves or elk, however, and Joshua Millspaugh, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Missouri, Columbia, notes that it's not clear what glucocorticoid levels indicate potential harm to an animal.

Although the human health threats are unknown, animal studies have found evidence of damage to neurological, immune and reproductive systems.

Yet, a new University of California, Davis, study suggests that local ordinances are not adequately addressing human and animal health when it comes to backyard poultry, and laws that do exist do not keep pace with those for commercial growers.

In this episode, the conclusion of a two - part interview with anthropologist Carel Van Schaik about intelligence in animals; astronomer Steven Squyres talks about the current state of the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity; and cardiologist Arthur Klatsky rebuts a recent meta - study that claims that light - to - moderate alcohol consumption confers no cardiovascular health benefits.

The National Institutes of Health had agreed to fund the study, which involved creating an animal model of anthrax infection in baboons, and the university's animal use and care committee had given it the green light.

Maria Lúcia Pereira Lima of the Instituto de Zootecnia Sertãozinho in Brazil is the lead author of this study in Springer's journal Tropical Animal Health and Production.

«When we examined the associations of the three food categories with heart disease risk, we found that healthy plant foods were associated with lower risk, whereas less healthy plant foods and animal foods were associated with higher risk,» said Ambika Satija, ScD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston and the study's lead author.

In 2011 the National Toxicology Program at the Department of Health and Human Services declared formaldehyde a known human carcinogen, demonstrated by human and animal studies to cause cancer of the nose, head, neck and lymphatic system.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is expected to make a decision imminently on how many of its 360 research chimps should be retired on the grounds that most studies can be done in other animals.

Dr Eleni Papadopoulou, lead author from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, said: «The concern for harm to the fetus caused by radio frequency electromagnetic fields, such as those emitted by mobile phones, is mainly driven by reports from experimental animal studies with inconsistent results.

«The adverse health effects of BPA are extensive, and studies in animals have proven this.»

If the findings of the study are replicated in other animal models, such as pigs, they could have considerable implications for public health, says Oluf Pedersen, professor of genomic medicine at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen.

In the study, Bruce Hope, from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues used animal models to investigate if the brain forms drug - related memories in a similar way.

Principle investigator Shuk - mei Ho, PhD, director of the Cincinnati Cancer Center, Jacob G. Schmidlapp Chair of Environmental Health and professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, says that human exposure to BPA is a common occurrence and that animal studies have shown that BPA contributes to development of prostate cancer but that human data are scarce.

Yet another problem is that much of what scientists think they know about human health comes from animal studies.

The study has relevance for the health of the biosphere because photosynthesis provides the primary food - source for animal life, but it also has great relevance for future climate change.

«We have animal literature, which shows direct links between exposure and adverse health outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead ahealth outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead ahealth sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead aHealth and a lead author.

Animal studies throughout the last quarter of the 20th century, in which investigators used a cast to restrict exercise after an injury, have revealed that muscular health and functioning rely on regular use.

An influential 2012 report on 120 monkeys being studied at the National Institute of Aging (NIA) reported no differences in survival for caloric restriction animals and a trend toward improved health that did not reach statistical significance.

Dramatic calorie restriction, diets reduced by 40 percent of a normal calorie total, have long been known to extend health span, the duration of disease - free aging, in animal studies, and even to extend life span in most animal species examined.