The Rip Van Wrinkler, Volume XIII, Issue 3, August 2009 |
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Posters for the Basenji Health EndowmentLunetta/Kamen BHE Quilt, Kiafrika Azima, Kiafrika Azima 2, Twin Towers Tight Rope, The Bakers’ DozenSigned, limited edition, archival prints of all 5 posters still available.FMI on how to order club stuff Club Gear - coming soon, online storefront to order gear embroidered with club images. Stay tuned.
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Collars & Slip Leads Richard Gallione Beautiful collars. “Master’s Pride.” www.masterspride.com H.R. Hoerr / LTD Leathergoods Leather Lure Coursing & Obedience Leashes 760/789-5643 or www.hchltd.com Hogan Leathers:
Training, Etc. Clean Run The Whole Dog JournalAffordable Agility (equipment) HiTop Dog Training High Goal Farm Dog coats Montana Dogware SitStay.com - Fido Fleece coatsGlitter lure coursing jackets + non-glitter tooCatalogs Omaha Vaccine www.omahavaccine.com or (800) 367-4444 KV Vetkvvet.com or (800) 423-8211Cherrybrookwww.cherrybrook.comMisc. very nice stuff Lotte Schaeffer Melissa Langston Sanford
Hand Made Xpen Covers Dog Jewelry William & Shirley Wagner Metropolitan Museum Store Dog food online: WagginTails
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Highly recommended books/DVDs: Temple Grandin - "Animals in Translation" Patricia McConnell - "The Other End of the Leash" Turid Rugaas – “On Speaking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals” Leslie Nelson – “Really Reliable Recall” (DVD) Michael Reed Gach – “Acupressure’s Potent Points” Leslie McDevitt – “Control Unleashed”
Health Listings: Thyroid - W. Jean Dodds DVM – Hemopet Phone 714-891-2022, fax 714-891-2123 11330 Markon Drive, Garden Grove, CA 92841. CERF- Canine Eye Registration Foundation OFA Orthopedic Foundation for Animals Fanconi Information
NEW YORK, June 3 (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's (PFE.N) efforts to develop new cancer drugs have yielded a breakthrough -- for dogs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first cancer treatment specifically designed to treat dogs, Pfizer and the agency announced on Wednesday. The drug Palladia was approved to treat canine mast cell tumors, a potentially serious type of cancer that accounts for about 20 percent of canine skin tumors, and one that can spread to other parts of the body, including lymph nodes, if not treated.
All cancer drugs now used in veterinary medicine originally were developed for use in humans and are not specifically approved for use in animals, the FDA said. "This cancer drug approval for dogs is an important step forward for veterinary medicine," Bernadette Dunham, director of FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, said in a statement. "Prior to this approval, veterinarians had to rely on human oncology drugs without knowledge of how safe or effective they would be for dogs," she said. Pfizer said it would begin selling Palladia in early 2010, but will make the oral drug available to certain veterinary oncology specialists prior to that.
Palladia works by killing tumor cells and by cutting off the blood supply to the tumor. The pill must be taken every other day and the dog will likely have to be on the therapy for several months or longer, depending on tumor response, Pfizer said. Pfizer declined to divulge the cost of the treatment or to forecast what annual Palladia sales might be. The world's biggest drugmaker said it will likely announce the price of the drug sometime this summer. Treatment with new cancer drugs for humans tends to cost tens of thousands of dollars per patient, and the majority of pet owners do not have health insurance for their dogs. In clinical trials, some 60 percent of dogs treated with Palladia, known chemically as toceranib, had their tumors disappear, shrink or stop growing, Pfizer said. Pfizer Animal Health estimates 1.2 million new canine cancer cases are reported in the United States every year.
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