"New Brunswick is about to become the first province in Atlantic Canada to use a PET CT scanner for detecting different forms of cancer.
PET, which stands for Positron Emission Tomography, is considered one of the best technologies for finding small tumours.
It allows a physician to examine cells in the entire body, making it easier to pinpoint the source of the cancer and to track treatment.
There are only 13 PET CT scanners currently in use across the country."
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"A Brooke County woman aruged that she should get more than the appraised value of her late dog, which died after a 2001 hit-and-run accident.
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Since Groucho wasn't a working farm animal, the owner of the dog killed in a hit-and-run accident should be eligible to recover damages."
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"Monkeys don't make good pets forever, April Truitt told a state legislative committee yesterday.
'From birth to about age 5, they are cute, cuddly little animals,' said Truitt, founder of the Primate Rescue Center in Nicholasville.
'But I have dealt with capuchin monkeys that get to be 30 years old, and these owners who paid $5,000 for them don't want them anymore. They're worthless.'"
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"Roland Mumford sponsored the resolution to create the vicious dog committee, on the heels of a dog attack incident in Portland involving two girls. District 8 Commissioner Roland Mumford is the chairman of the vicious dog committee. Mumford will meet with Wike and others at 3 p.m. Friday at the county administration building to discuss these ideas.
Summer Hunt, 7, was seriously injured when she was attacked by her grandmother’s pit bull in Portland on May 8.
Summer’s 15-year-old sister, Angelia, was also injured while trying to get the dog away from her sister.
Toni Hunt, the girls’ mother, said she would support any law designed to prevent others from experiencing the trauma her family has endured since her two daughters were attacked.
“There needs to be strict rules on any dog that can hurt a human or (another dog), pit bulls, rotweillers, chows, even small dogs, but especially with larger dogs because of the damage they can do,” Hunt said.
Mumford said owner responsibility would be a big focus of the committee."
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