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This wins best article title

I imagine the researchers being so damn happy with themselves writing this and it being perfectly professional and scientific

Dude. An axolotl got cancer! What????

It was an interesting article but now I want to know so much more. Like, how do they use axolotls in cancer research anyway and what have we found out?

Im not sure how relevant this article is at this time. But the radiation treatment worked in the short term (it died of unrelated causes a few months later so we don’t know the long term effect). The question over all is how well radiation would work because of axolotls regenerative properties.

Data from a recent survey by the CDC suggest that nearly one in 10 U.S. veterinarians might experience serious psychological distress The survey results, based on answers from more than 10,000 practicing veterinarians—most (69 percent) of whom are in small animal practice—revealed the following:

6.8 percent of males and 10.9 percent of females in the profession have serious psychological distress compared with 3.5 percent and 4.4 percent of U.S. male and female adults.

24.5 percent of males and 36.7 percent of females in veterinary medicine have experienced depressive episodes since veterinary school, which is about 1 1/2 times the prevalence in U.S. adults overall throughout their lifetime.

14.4 percent of males and 19.1 percent of females who are veterinarians have considered suicide since graduation. This is three times the U.S. national mean.

1.1 percent of males and 1.4 percent of females in the veterinary profession have attempted suicide since veterinary school.

January 01, 2015

[...] A few years earlier, Dr. Harry Werner, a former AAEP president, and a group of other equine welfare experts from the association toured five New York horse carriage stables in February 2010. The group had been invited by Carriage Operators of North America and its president at the time, Tommy Doyle; AAEP paid the group’s expenses. The group was given full access to all parts of the stables, along with veterinary records.

The equine veterinarians paid particular attention to the stables’ cleanliness, to quality and storage of feed (hay and grain), to safety and ease of the horses’ access into and exit from the stable, to the size of the stalls to make sure they had adequate turnaround room, to environmental factors such as climate control, and to body condition scores of the horses.

“We didn’t see a single horse undernourished. More than a couple were overnourished, but all healthy-looking,” Dr. Werner said. “The attitudes and behavior of the horses were those with what we’d associate with a contented horse. They were interested in their environments, would put their heads out to be stroked, and had their ears forward.”

Dr. Werner noted the farrier care was good, with trimmed, but not overdone hooves. Some horses had corrective shoeing. The horses’ preventive care included immunizations, parasite control, and dental work. The horses also were getting a five- to six-week “vacation” in Pennsylvania every year.

When observing the horses in the streets, Dr. Werner said the veterinarians didn’t see any panicking horses, nor did they observe any rapid breathing resulting from poor air quality. The veterinarians also did not observe any swollen joints or lameness from the horses working on hard surfaces.

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