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Basin Pharmacy fills more than prescriptions in rural northern Wyoming. It’s also the

It’s unclear how Billie ended up in Gaza. When Hamas entered Dancyg’s home, she hid in the safe room with her family for eight hours, holding the door shut. But she fled so quickly there was no time to find the dog. For months, the community looked everywhere for Billie, but there was no trace of her.The family later moved to northern Israel.

Then, on Tuesday night, Dancyg’s daughter received a phone call from a soldier who had just returned from Gaza. He said he had their dog.“I couldn’t believe it. I asked for a photo. I was really confused,” said her daughter, Lee Maor.The soldier said he found Billie in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah — about 9 miles (15 kilometers) from the Kibbutz — days earlier, and she immediately gravitated toward his troops, not leaving their side. It might have been because Billie heard them speaking Hebrew, he told them.

Speaking to Israeli television, reserve soldier Aviad Shapira said he found Billie among the rubble and called out to her. “I said ‘shalom’ and she jumped on me,” he said.He had a feeling that she didn’t belong in Gaza and that there was a story behind her, Shapira said. He brought the dog to a veterinarian and found the family’s contact information on a chip inside the animal.

Stroking Billie on her lap, Dancyg says it will take time to see how the odyssey has affected her. Billie appears happy to be home, but she seems disoriented and has lost weight, Dancyg said.

Rachel Dancyg holds her dog, Billie, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Israeli soldiers found Billie in the Gaza Strip, 18 months after she disappeared during Hamas’ attack on Dancyg’s Kibbutz of Nir Oz, in Binyamina, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)Alex Berrios of Louisville, Kentucky, needs a second transplant but finding another human match is proving impossible. So he’s closely watching for a chance at pig kidney research.

Alex Berrios walks into his dialysis session in Louisville, Ky., on Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)Alex Berrios walks into his dialysis session in Louisville, Ky., on Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

“It may not work, and I have to be OK with that,” Berrios said. “I think it’s worth the shot.”Now two U.S. companies aim to begin the world’s first clinical trials of xenotransplantation in 2025 –