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Oh, how the mighty hath fallen.

Experts say the cat, once worshiped as a god in ancient Egypt, is now suffering from an image problem. The result is a movement within the pet-products and -care industry to promote kitty equality.

The pet business, it seems, has gone to the dogs.

More than a third of the country's 90 million cats have not been to a vet in the past year, according to a survey by the American Pet Product Manufacturers Association. Even though there are 20 percent more cats in America than dogs, because cat people tend to own more than one, Americans simply spend more on their dogs. During the past 12 months, for instance, dog owners spent an average of $217 on food while cat owners spent $188.

"Cats are not highly valued in our culture," says Donna Mlinek, feline programs manager for the Denver Dumb Friends League.

Pfizer, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript

Amal Naj, Head of Development. Please begin the call.

Amal Naj - Senior Vice President, WW Investor Development & Strategy

Head of Investor Development. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us on this call to review our fourth quarter 2007 performance. I am here with Jeff Kindler, Chairman and CEO; Frank D'Amelio, Chief Financial Officer, and other members of our senior management.

The financial chart that will be presented on this call can be viewed on our homepage at www.pfizer.com in the Investor Presentations tab by clicking on the link Quarterly Corporate Performance - Fourth Quarter 2007.

We will end our conference call at 1 o'clock sharp, and as we would like you to... as we would like to hear from as many as you and in this time we would appreciate if you would limit yourself to just one part question.

Groundbreaking Apo E Gene Diet Linked to Alzheimer's Disease and Heart ...

TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- We all carry the Apo E gene. It plays a key role in the development of Alzheimer's Disease and heart disease, along with a host of chronic ailments. And it is greatly affected by diet.

In her seminal book, The Apo E Gene Diet: A Breakthrough in Changing, Cholesterol, Weight, Heart and Alzheimer's Using the Body's Own Genes (Elite, Hardcover, $27.95, November 1, 2007), Pamela McDonald, RNFA, FNP, an integrative healthcare professional for 28 years, has developed specific diets that support an individual's Apo E genotype.

The Apo E Gene Diet accomplishes what one-size-fits-all diets like Atkins and South Beach can never do: it prescribes the optimal combination of proteins, carbohydrates and fates for specific genotypes. The six Apo E genotypes -- Apo E 2/2, 2/3, 3/3, 4/2, 4/3, 4/4 -- responds differently to these big three macronutrients.

Thalidomide Returns As Leukemia Fighter

The drug thalidomide was pulled from the market in the 1950s after causing horrible birth defects.

Greater Rochester Health Foundation

On the health care priority, the foundation board has just approved a three-year initiative to develop treatment standards for senior citizens suffering from two yet-to-be-determined health problems.

A group of insurers, physicians and others will be asked to spend about six months selecting the two health problems and coming to an agreement on how best to treat them. "It's just a matter of practice catching up with knowledge," Urban said.

He said physicians often recommend different courses of treatment for patients with identical symptoms. If research has established the best approach, Urban said it can take many years for that approach to be widely adopted.

"We're going to point the way, but what's important is we're bringing all the right parties together," he said, referring to the care providers, hospitals and insurers that sometimes are at odds with one another.

BioJournal - Kalorama Market Research

Pediatric Drugs: the Worldwide Market, 3rd Edition Although much of medicine is focused on the increased aging of the population, children still represent the bulk the dependent population worldwide. Important regulatory factors are also at work in the pediatric pharmaceutical market. The recognition of the rights of children to have access to safe and effective drugs and the needs of healthcare providers to have access to age-appropriate drug information continues to have a major effect on all areas of pediatric pharmaceuticals including pediatric biomedical research. .

The gravesite of Sheila and Paul Wellstone at Lakewood Cemetery.

28TH & HENNEPIN Plans to incorporate the Walker Library and the Isles Allina Medical Clinic into an expanded YWCA community center near 28th Street and Hennepin Avenue are dead for now. The idea, which the YWCA has discussed for about a year, proved to be too complicated to allow the center to continue providing services during construction. It would have had to shut down for a couple years, forcing its members to go elsewhere. "While there was deep political support for this and neighborhood support, we determined it was too much of an operational challenge," said real estate consultant Caren Dewar, who worked with the YWCA to evaluate development possibilities. Karen Sterk, director of health and fitness at Full Article .

Iran War

Karen Fish: George Bush Nostradamus Third Anti Christ and Iran's Greatest Hero (1 comments) This week George McGovern called George Bush a false prophet.