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Source: DVM360
(June 14, 2014) More than six months after U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a “Dear veterinarian” letter asking for assistance from private practitioners in its investigation of jerky pet treat illness, the FDA issued an update. While the agency still has not identified a specific cause for jerky-related illness, it says the many well-documented case reports it received from veterinarians since October of last year have been extremely valuable to the investigation...
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Doctors May Not Even Know To Look For Borrelia Miyamotoi Infection
Source: CBS New York
(July 2, 2013) A new disease spread by deer ticks has already infected 100,000 New Yorkers since the state first started keeping track.
As CBS 2’s Dr. Max Gomez reported, the new deer tick-borne illness resembles Lyme disease, but is a different malady altogether – and it could be even worse...
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Source: SOURCE NAME
(June 14, 2013) Midwestern University College of Veterinary Medicine in Glendale, Ariz., is now the 29th college of veterinary medicine in the United States to become a member of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC). Midwestern’s inaugural class of 100 veterinary medicine students is scheduled to enroll in August 2014...
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Source: USA Today
(June 20, 2013) LOS ANGELES (AP) — A decade ago, the Rosebud Sioux Indians in South Dakota were paying people to catch and shoot wild dogs. Dogs that weren't caught were covered in mange and parasites. Some froze. Some starved. In packs, they survived by eating each other. And dog bites were 20 times worse than the national average...
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Source: Thoroughbred Daily News
(June 24, 2013) It takes a lot to shock a regulatory veterinarian of 25 years. But that’s how Dr. Mary Scollay felt last October after Kentucky switched from private vets to state-employed ones for the administration of Lasix on race day. Scollay, the equine medical director of the Bluegrass State, said she soon learned that something as simple as giving a routine shot with the authorized dosage had been regularly abused by trainers and their vets...
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Source: The Week
(June 18, 2013) On the hunt for a new asthma medication, pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co is looking at a new technology for testing potential drugs — a tiny "lung" that lives on a microchip. This is fantastic news for mice who might otherwise have the drugs tested on them...
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Source: VPI Pet Insurance
(April 2, 2013) Just like their human counterparts, when pets are afflicted with even seemingly minor ailments such as an ear infection, stomach ache or cough, it can prompt a visit to the doctor. While the majority of these conditions are rarely life threatening, they can become chronic and expensive to treat...
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Source: Treehugger
(June 3, 2013) "No foxes have killed penguins in the past seven years" This is clever. Very clever. Sheepdogs are bred and trained to protect sheep against wolves, but that doesn't mean that their skills can't be used to protect different animals against other species of predators. This is exactly what the Maremma Project did on Warrnambool’s Middle Island, off the south coast of Australia...
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