This week is National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week. One of the best ways to show your appreciation is to adopt a pet that needs a home. Adopting a special needs pet is even better if your life allows it.
I’d like for you to get to know a special cat who needs a good home, and perhaps she may even find a home with you!
Willamina is a three-year-old domestic short hair gray tabby. She lives at the ASPCA in the Upper Eastside of Manhattan in New York City, but she wants to find a special home of her own.
She was rescued …read more

People with difficult-to-treat asthma may actual be their own worst enemy, say researchers from Northern Ireland.
Non-compliance may mean anything from not taking your medications often enough to not taking the right doses to not showing up for doctor or testing appointments. In this study, researchers were looking at how patients managed their inhaled and oral medications. They evaluated 182patients who were experiencing difficulties in managing their asthma symptoms.
The researchers found that:

35% filled fewer than half their inhaled combination medications
21% filled more than inhaled medications they were supposed to
45% filled between half and all the inhaled medications they were supposed to
45% …read more

Ok folks, another study on the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and DMARDs (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs); what are we going to make of it?
According to a press release issued by the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), “At least 50% of recent onset rheumatoid arthritis patients achieve remission (a state free of signs and symptoms) within 36 weeks when following a systematic approach of step-up DMARD treatment in combination with tight control.”
This finding, presented at the annual congress, was based on this guideline:
Methotrexate 15mg/week was initiated following diagnosis
If remission was not achieved at week 8, the dose was increased to …read more