With the popularity of rodents and reptiles as pets on the rise, specialists are warning that many of them carry diseases that can infect humans and could be especially dangerous to children less resistant to diseases.
According to Finance Ministry trade statistics, Japan imports more than a million animals every year, excluding small animals, insects and […]

Summer is a time for both you and your pet to enjoy the sunshine and have fun outdoors, but the season can bring situations that could endanger your pet. The summer heat can cause heat exhaustion and heat strokes for your pets. It’s important for animals, like humans, to keep hydrated.
“Keep them cool. Keep them […]

A Japanese travel agency has canceled tours to Germany in June for about 1,200 people to watch World Cup finals soccer games as a Chinese agency allegedly failed to deliver tickets to watch the matches, the agency and the transport ministry said Wednesday.
Max Air Service said it decided to cancel the tours Tuesday night as […]

Mike Lestin leaned against a metal beam at the Public Market on Memorial Day while holding onto the handle of a wagon filled with flowers.
“This is our second load,” said Lestin of Honeoye Falls. “I think we’re pretty much done.”
Mike and his wife, Marilynn Lestin, were shopping for flowers during Flower City Days at the […]

Regional Hospice volunteers have planted and maintained the “Plant a Memory” flower garden in Longyear Park for several years. Not only does it add beauty to the landscape, it also has special meaning to people throughout the Range.
The “Plant a Memory” flower garden is one of two annual fund-raisers for Regional Hospice, the other being […]

Feeling sad? Consider making your way to the nearest florist, because a recent study shows that flowers really do have power.
According to the study, the simple presence of flowers has an immediate impact on a person’s emotional state.
Jeannette Haviland-Jones, Rutgers University psychology professor and lead researcher on the study, admitted she was initially cynical about […]

Dan Kaercher’s waistline grew by a belt notch during an odyssey through the Midwest as he searched for the region’s most interesting — and tastiest — food traditions.
“I think I would have gained a lot more than 10 1/2 pounds, but I learned ‘just sample this, but you don’t have to clean your plate,”’ the […]

Drinking coffee in moderation, up to five cups a day, can reduce the chances of contracting cardio-vascular diseases, Parkison’s and Alzheimer’s, a study by Norwegian researchers showed.
The researchers based their findings on data from 27,000 women in the United States. Those who drank between one and three cups of coffee daily reduced the risk of […]

After surviving cancer of the thyroid, the risk of a second different cancer is elevated by about 30 percent, according to results of a new study. Conversely, many cancers are associated with increased risk of subsequent thyroid cancer.
Dr. Mark W. J. Strachan, from Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, UK, and colleagues note that the increased […]

Lyme disease is an infection that’s spread by Ixodes ticks (black-legged or deer ticks in the eastern United States, and western black-legged ticks in the west) that carry the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. These ticks acquire the bacteria from mice and then infect humans by biting them and passing the bacteria into a person’s bloodstream. These […]