| Pets and parasites
IT IS fairly common for pets to be infected with internal or external parasites at some point in their lives. Parasites can affect animals in many ways, ranging from simple irritations to life-threatening illnesses if left untreated. As with any family member, it is important to keep your pet healthy and parasite free. Parasites are among the simplest and most preventable pet problems. Zoonoses A zoonosis is not a disease that you get from going to the zoo. Zoonotic diseases are diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans. For example, certain worms, such as roundworms, can be transmitted to people from the environment. Fortunately, these parasites can be stopped with monthly parasite control available from your veterinarian.
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In a place just a few miles from sandy beaches and soaring sky-scrapers, white stone villas and sky-blue swimming pools, it seems the epitome of irony and injustice that over 1.5 million people would be subjected to drinking sewage-contaminated water. When there is such a fine line bordering wealth and poverty, privilege and need, how unsettling to realize that just a stones throw away, mothers and fathers must nourish their families with poison. As if the occupier could not find one more creative way to torment his victim. .
Modern India Still Prays for Boys
Standing in front of his small brick home, in a courtyard where the dirt has been packed down by generations of barefoot children, the middle-aged mustard farmer doesn't bother to hide his exhaustion. "Only someone who has been through something like this can understand the size of my catastrophe," said Sukhpal Singh Tomar. For years, he has struggled to find some reason for his suffering, but has come up with little. He shrugged: "It must be my karma." .
Surgeon tapped to lead UT Health Science Center
The University of Pennsylvania medical school's chief of surgery was tapped Monday as the next president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. UT System regents named Dr. Larry Kaiser, a thoracic surgeon, the sole finalist for the job, ending a seven-month search. State law requires that the regents now wait 21 days before finalizing the appointment. "Dr. Kaiser is a distinguished physician and educator with outstanding credentials and a proven administrative track record," said Scott Caven Jr., chairman of the regents. "He should move the Health Science Center to a higher level of care, teaching and research." Kaiser, 55, would succeed Dr. James Willerson, who announced last fall he would resign once a successor is in place.
Books make aging a thing of beauty
The self-help category has a new niche: beauty books that instruct baby-boomer women on how to transform themselves from crone to cougar, from old to hot, from withered to wow. The reason is demographics, says writer/director Nora Ephron, 66, whose 2006 best-selling memoir "I Feel Bad About My Neck ... And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman" is just out in paperback. "There is a huge number of women in their 50s who are discovering the truth about aging. Let's be clear. Yes, it's better to be in your 50s and 60s than to be dead. But they can't pass the mirror without averting their eyes." At work on the film "Julie & Julia," starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep, Ephron believes there is no single reason for this anti-aging mania. "For some people, it's denial, and for some people, it's 'if I can fix it, why shouldn't I?' " .
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