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...team investigating the cause of death, says he would not normally expect melamine to kill a pet. Research on melamine's effects on animals is very limited: only a few dated studies have been done on dogs and just one on cats, which showed limited poisonous effects and no kidney damage. And melamine has a very low level of toxicity to rodents. "It looks like it [the melamine] is causing direct cell death in the kidneys and this is not something we would have expected to happen," says Goldstein. "I don't think it's pure melamine. Maybe there...
...whether melamine is the real culprit. Bruce Friedrich, Vice President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has urged the FDA to test for excessive levels of vitamin D; last year a manufacturing error led to too much of the vitamin in Royal Canin pet food, causing kidney failure and death in several animals. But Goldstein says excessive vitamin D is unlikely, since blood tests would show high calcium levels, which haven't been found. Says an FDA spokesman: "Our analysis of the premix indicates that vitamin levels were appropriate." Other theories floated to explain the bizarre deaths...
DAWN MAJERCZYK, of Chicago, who filed a class action after her cat Phoenix died of kidney failure from eating food contaminated with rat poison; at least 15 other cats and dogs died...
...very end. There is great courage and dignity in that, which is why Buchwald's extended goodbye (he died on Jan. 17) earned him such appreciation and admiration. But dying well is also a matter of luck. By unexpectedly living almost a full year after refusing dialysis for kidney failure, Buchwald won himself time to taunt the scythe...
...creative writing on a small faculty that includes Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison.Hellman, who is taking her fourth creative writing course this semester, has been hoping to write a creative thesis for years. She just submitted her proposal for a series of nonfiction pieces that include tales of kidney stones and parental reconciliation.Hellman first decided that she wanted to write a creative thesis the summer after her junior year of high school, when she took a course under Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language Sven Birkerts at Harvard Summer School. At the time, Hellman...