Washington, D.C.—Researchers have identified 2 strains of probiotics that can be used to reduce weight in obese dogs. The research is published this week in Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the ...

If your dog is looking like he needs to drop some weight, a new study shows probiotics might do the trick. Researchers identified two strains of probiotics that helped obese canines shed pounds. "The ...

We hear a lot more about our bad bugs than our good bugs — about treatment-resistant gonorrhea and C. difficile and run-amok E.coli. But we also hear more and more about how our bodies are ecosystems ...

The research is important, because in 2006 the European Union prohibited the feeding of antibiotics to livestock as growth promoters. Therefore, the research team sought to investigate whether ...