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• Once-A-Month Pill For Both Fleas And Ticks In Fido And Fluffy - Journal Of Medicinal Che ...
  Fri, 03 July 2009
  Scientists in New Jersey are describing discovery and successful tests of the first once-a-month pill for controlling both fleas and ticks in domestic dogs and cats. Their study is in the current issue of ACS' Journal of the Medicinal Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication. Peter Meinke and colleagues at Merck Research Labo ...
• BVA Asks Defra To Abandon Separation Of Animal Health From Animal Welfare
  Thu, 02 July 2009
  The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has called on Defra to abandon its plans for a new animal health body that will give responsibility for animal health to an independent board and leave responsibility for animal welfare with ministers. The BVA has also expressed deep concerns over the confusion caused by the new st ...
• AVMA Applauds U.S. House Of Representatives For Introducing Veterinary Public Health Leg ...
  Thu, 02 July 2009
  The nation's largest veterinary association applauded four members of the U.S.
• British Veterinary Assoicaiton Asks DEFRA To Abandon Separation Of Animal Health From An ...
  Thu, 02 July 2009
  The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has called on Defra to abandon its plans for a new animal health body that will give responsibility for animal health to an independent board and leave responsibility for animal welfare with ministers. The BVA has also expressed deep concerns over the confusion caused by the new struc ...
• Enigma Diagnostics Announces Successful Evaluation Of The Enigma FL By The UK's Veterina ...
  Thu, 02 July 2009
  Enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced successful independent testing for bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) by the Veterinary Laboratories Agency to evaluate the performance of the Enigma FL (Field Laboratory). BVD is considered to be one of the main threats to ...
• Study: Furosemide Has Health Benefits For Thoroughbred Racehorses
  Wed, 01 July 2009
  A groundbreaking study to be published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) shows that furosemide does more than enhance performance in Thoroughbred racehorses; it also has beneficial effects on the health and welfare of those horses. Most countries ban the race-day use of furosemide becaus ...
• Researchers Describe History Of Swine Flu And Warn About Using Extinct Viruses
  Wed, 01 July 2009
  In a leading medical journal this week US researchers describe the 90-year history of swine flu and warn about working with freezer viruses, which they suspect is how an H1N1 virus that closely resembles a temporarily extinct 1950s strain resurrected some 20 years later and continues to circulate as a seasonal flu st ...
• 1st Anticancer Drug For Animals Offers Human Treatment Possibilities
  Mon, 29 June 2009
  AB Science, a young Paris-based biotech company, announces the pan-European commercial launch of its Masivet veterinary anticancer drug in June 2009. Masivet was approved in November 2008 by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for the treatment of dogs with non-resectable grade 2 or 3 mast cell tumours. Masivet's active pha ...
• Gold Treatment Relieves Pain
  Sat, 27 June 2009
  Many animals and people experience chronic joint pain. In dogs, a common source of joint pain is hip dysplasia, a developmental defect of the hip joint. Implantation of gold into the soft tissues around the hip joints of dogs with dysplasia can relieve pain and lessen stiffness for several years. Joint pain in animals and ...
• Vetericyn Inc. Launches Equine Wound & Infection Product Utilizing FDA-Cleared Technology
  Sat, 27 June 2009
  Vetericyn Inc., a California-based animal healthcare company, has announced the launch of its new Vetericyn? equine product, available in a 16-ounce trigger spray for horses. Vetericyn? utilizes an FDA-cleared technology that has been used to successfully treat over one million human patients without a single serious adverse ...