If your kitty is experiencing weight loss even with a big appetite, it’s time to visit the veterinarian. Your cat may have hyperthyroidism, a common hormonal imbalance in older cats.
Most cats are diagnosed with hyperthyroidism via a blood panel around age 13. Besides weight loss, affected cats may also experience chronic vomiting and diarrhea, plus muscle deterioration.
Even if cats aren’t exhibiting symptoms, it’s important to treat the condition to prevent heart failure or sudden blindness or death.

A cat with hyperthyroidism is producing too much T4, and the feline probably has a growth the thyroid gland. These growths are usually benign, …read more

When a person is going through radiation therapy for cancer treatment, a nasty side effect is often skin toxicity. This can include burns, dry cracking skin, or other uncomfortable skin issues. If the skin toxicity remains fairly mild, then there may not be a problem. But, if the problems get bad, they can have a severe impact on the quality of life and could even bring a woman to the point that she must discontinue treatment.
Interestingly, researchers in Italy discovered that a glass of wine every day could actually help minimize the skin toxicity of radiotherapy. They examined 348 women …read more

Injection of the drug CBLB502 has the potential to protect a cancer patient’s healthy cells during radiation treatment.
At least in mice and monkeys’ study, it worked that way!
Mice and monkeys exposed to normally-lethal doses of radiation treatment have lived longer after being injected with the drug CBLB502.
Radiotherapy is used to kill cancer-infected cells through radiation. However, the treatment also kills healthy cells surrounding the cancer-affected area through a biological suicide mechanism, or apoptosis.
The biological suicide is a reaction activated by the body in order to stop the multiplication of damaged DNA and cells. Radiotherapists must balance targeting too much radiation …read more