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Pain is an undesirable potential consequence of many of the procedures conducted on animals in the course of scientific research, and in most cases it is unnecessary. The US Congress, the public ...

She told USA TODAY that she's worked on rabbits with gastrointestinal stasis − when food and waste in the digestive tract stops − and geriatric animals, like petting zoo goats, experiencing chronic ...

Some pets react differently to pain than we expect. Some will whine and let us know something is wrong; others will just bear the pain and not let us know at all. It is up to every dog owner to ...

Federal regulations mandate the minimization of both pain and distress in laboratory animals. That no clear definition exists for 'distress' complicates its recognition, quantification ...

Non-human animals have served as valuable models in many types of biomedical investigations, but when it comes to pain, some assumptions are necessary. We can measure nociception at the neuronal level ...

With the exception of chickens raised for meat, the vast majority of farmed animals in the United States undergo at least one painful physical alteration over the course of their lives. Physical ...

The drug, known as VIP36, targets the body’s cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1). It was found to be effective in three different animal models for pain and does not appear to cause the harmful side ...

Up to 90% of abdominal surgeries result in adhesions -- abnormal scarring that ties together organs and tissues. A gel has now been shown to prevented adhesions in mice and pigs.

experiencing chronic pain. In total, she's conducted acupuncture on about 20 of the zoo's animals, she said. Cannizzo added that she has also had luck with some eye acupuncture, specifically ...

Cannizzo said animal acupuncture can be used to relieve chronic pain in the zoo's geriatric animals. Cannizzo received her International Veterinary Acupuncture Society certification in January ...