Last year 520 rabid animals were found in North Carolina. As a result, a countless number of unvaccinated cats and dogs had to be euthanized and many people had to undergo expensive preventive treatment for rabies. Experts with the North Carolina Division of Public Health are urging people to avoid these problems by vaccinating their pets against rabies.

Concerns about the risk of radiation-induced cancer are growing with the increasing number of cancer patients surviving long term.

Her parenting skills have been scrutinized for months. Now Britney Spears has been voted the World's Worst Celebrity Dog Owner for 2006.

Human-chimp genetic difference is as big as 6 percent.
Approximately six per cent of human and chimp genes are unique to those species, report scientists from the University of Bristol and three other institutions.

Marine iguanas on the Galápagos Islands live without predators - at least this was the case up until 150 years ago. Since then they have been confronted with cats and dogs on some islands of the Archipelago. For scientists, they are therefore a suitable model of study in order to discover if such generally tame animals are capable of adapting their behaviour and endocrine stress response to novel predation threats.