Comparative Clinical Science Foundation

The potential is almost limitless.
Already animals have benefited from medical advances with the fitting of pacemakers and surgery to remove brain tumours. Likewise studies of the DNA of the papilloma virus in cattle and horses have led to the development of a vaccine to cure cervical cancer in humans.

Research opportunities that CCSF
could fund include:

cancer – from which 25%
of humans and animals
currently die
the ageing process
genetic disorders
allergic diseases such as asthma and eczema
infectious diseases
musculo-skeletal disorders
common conditions such as cardiovascular disease and eye disease
new diseases such as H5N1
(bird flu) that carry the threat of a global pandemic.

Examples:

Oral re-hydration
If your baby was suffering from
de-hydration as a result of diarrhoea, would you consider treating it with an oral re-hydration solution successfully and routinely used on calves?

Most likely not, but what if you knew it was a much more efficient treatment containing glutamine which helps protect the gut while it recovers?
This treatment has been specially designed for calves rather than being a ‘diluted’ adult version, as sometimes happens with children’s medicine.

The implications of this treatment being used on babies and children,
in areas where de-hydration is a life-threatening condition, are immense.

Horses
The physiology of the performance of horses and man has been studied in depth, but separately. There is potential to learn from
each other.

Horses with broken legs are shot,
but what if they could be saved?
For humans, the use of electric current and dietary supplements accelerates healing.

Both horses and humans suffer from allergic reactions such as asthma and sweet itch/eczema.
A project is now underway looking at the potential to alleviate this
for both.