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Dog Ownership Associated With Living Longer

Randolph Jason

Dog Ownership Associated With Living Longer from Natural Blaze Dog ownership may be associated with longer life and better cardiovascular outcomes, especially for heart attack and stroke survivors who live alone, according to a new study and a separate meta-analysis published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association. “The findings in these two well-done studies and analyses build upon prior studies and the conclusions of the 2013 AHA Scientific Statement ‘Pet Ownership and Cardiovascular Risk’ that dog ownership is associated with reductions in factors…

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Dogs Can Sniff Out Cancer With 97 Percent Accuracy, Study Shows

Randolph Jason

Dogs Can Sniff Out Cancer With 97 Percent Accuracy, Study Shows By Elias Marat for The Mind Unleashed During the study, the scientists utilized a behavioral technique known as “clicker training” to instruct four beagles to tell the difference between blood serum belonging to healthy people and samples taken from people with malignant lung cancer. While one of the participating beagles, Snuggles, was “unmotivated to perform during training,” the other three beagles reached an average accuracy rate of 96.7 percent when identifying lung cancer samples and 97.5 percent when detecting the…

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