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Pets warm your heart, but make it healthier, too

A new study has found that pet owners’ hearts respond better to their body’s changing requirements, like beating faster when they’re stressed out or in a dangerous situation. Increased heart rate variability means less of a risk of dying from heart disease.

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One Health Headlines: Friday, February 10, 2012

This week’s One Health roundup includes a look at canine cancer (and how it may hold clues to curing cancer in humans); the dangers of wood smoke and cigarette smoke to our pets; how pets can improve the lives of people in hospice care, courtrooms, and offices; and the latest in animal research.

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Secondhand smoke and pets

Secondhand smoke doesn’t just affect people in a home — it affects their pets, too.  Dr. Clare Knottenbelt, a professor at the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, has done research that found the levels of nicotine in dogs exposed to secondhand smoke were similar to those found in children in smoking homes.

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One Health Headlines: Friday, February 3, 2012

We lead off this week’s One Health roundup with an incredible story out of California, where an 8-year-old girl became one of the few people ever to survive a rabies infection (you can read the CDC report here ).

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Dogs helping to heal the emotional wounds of war

The capacity of human hearts to be healed by animal kindness is an astounding thing, as you’ll see in this report from last night’s NBC Nightly News about therapy dogs helping soldiers move on from the emotional wounds of war.

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