This article originally appeared on Undark. Liz P.Y. Chee vividly remembers the first time she visited a bear farm. It was 2009, and Chee, who was working for a Singapore-based animal welfare group, ...

As pet owners spend more on veterinary care, animal health giants are borrowing — and innovating on top of — the human pharma ...

A perentie lizard in Dallas, an African penguin in Boston and an Oberhasli goat in Chicago are just a few recent examples of animals at zoos and aquariums benefiting recently from acupuncture therapy.

If humans and animals experience some of the same injuries, diseases and disorders (and they do), then why don’t doctors more often seek the advice of veterinarians and animal experts? It is a good ...

Learn how zookeepers give medicine to animals, from salamanders to siamangs and everything in between. Erin Stromberg How do you get an elephant to exercise, safely introduce two songbirds or prepare ...

Dr Tracey King CSci, MRSB - Research and Outreach Manager, Humanimal Trust: One Medicine is described as many different things by many different people. The UK charity that drives One Medicine – ...

People of all ages rely on their pets for a serotonin boost, whether they’re throwing a ball for their dog, petting their cat or talking to their fish after a long day. Nancy Edwards, professor and ...

While human health and animal health have some overlap, historically there has been a gap between drug development and treatment options. But as pet ownership has skyrocketed and the desire for new ...

“The First Law of Technology says we invariably overestimate the short-term impact of a truly transformational discovery, while underestimating its longer-term effects.” Ultimately, all medicine is ...

For millennia animals have been used in medicine as remedies. While this practice has all but disappeared in western countries, many cultures still employ traditional medicine that includes ...

Traditional Chinese medicine is going global. Earlier this year, Chinese state media reported that 57 traditional medicinal centers were under development in places as far-flung as Poland, the United ...