A new immunotherapy for companion dogs with advanced-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) has been shown to improve survival while maintaining quality of life, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports…
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Filed under: Veterinary on February 9th, 2012 | No Comments »
Wildlife health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society have published evidence which supports the conclusion that Mongolian gazelles - one of the most populous large land mammals on the planet - are not a reservoir of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a highly contagious viral disease that threatens both wildlife and livestock in Asia…
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Filed under: Veterinary on January 31st, 2012 | No Comments »
Following the AHVLA’s confirmation of the discovery of Schmallenberg virus (SBV) on four sheep farms in Norfolk, Suffolk and East Sussex, the British Veterinary Association (BVA) has renewed its call for heightened vigilance. Scientists believe that the virus is vector-borne, even though they have not ruled out other routes of transmission…
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Filed under: Veterinary on January 26th, 2012 | No Comments »
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) voices its deep concern regarding the European Parliament resolution to call on the Commission to legislate against the prophylactic (preventive) use of antibiotics (antimicrobials) in livestock farming…
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Filed under: Veterinary on November 8th, 2011 | No Comments »
UCLA life scientists and their colleagues have discovered the first evidence of the H1N1 virus in animals in Africa. In one village in northern Cameroon, a staggering 89 percent of the pigs studied had been exposed to the H1N1 virus, commonly known as the swine flu. “I was amazed that virtually every pig in this […]
Filed under: Veterinary on September 26th, 2011 | No Comments »
According to an investigation published online in the Veterinary Record, UK organic turkey feed doesn’t contain enough vital nutrients required to help turkeys grow and develop properly. The authors explain that the situation is more likely to get worse when the new European Union regulations come into practice in January 2012…
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Filed under: Veterinary on September 21st, 2011 | No Comments »
Veterinary associations have strongly welcomed the announcement by Defra that it is strongly minded to include a controlled cull of badgers as a key component of the bovine tuberculosis (TB) eradication plans for England…
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Filed under: Veterinary on July 19th, 2011 | No Comments »
The study, by researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial College London, is published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. The findings come as the Government prepares to decide whether to license farmers to organise the widespread culling of badgers over areas of 150 square kilometres […]
Filed under: Veterinary on July 15th, 2011 | No Comments »
Advaxis, Inc. (OTCBB: ADXS), a leader in developing the next generation of immunotherapies for cancer and infectious diseases, announces that the first dog has entered a dose-ranging in canine osteosarcoma at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Canine Osteosarcoma is a cancer of long (leg) bones that is a leading killer of […]
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In the first study to compare survival associated with bariatric surgery in mostly male patients, bariatric surgery was not significantly associated with decreased mortality, according to a research study published in the June 15 issue of theJournal of the American Medical Association…
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