Veterinary News

• How Polar Bear Droppings Might Help Us Understand Superbugs
  Fri, 15 January 2010
  Scientists from Norway and Italy have found scarecely any signs of superbugs in feces dropped by polar bears in the Arctic, and suggest that since these animals have little or no contact with humans, the spread of bacterial genes resistant to antibiotics could be due to our influence...
• FDA Health Alert For Merrick Beef Filet Squares Dog Treats Packaged And Distributed By M ...
  Fri, 15 January 2010
  The U. S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use Merrick Beef Filet Squares for dogs distributed by Merrick Pet Care with a package date of Best By 111911 because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella. The product was distributed nationwide through retail stores and Internet sales...
• Vets Applaud Welsh Badger Cull - British Veterinary Association
  Fri, 15 January 2010
  The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has strongly welcomed the announcement of a pilot badger cull and stricter cattle measures in Wales in the bid to tackle the spread of bovine tuberculosis...
• Dog Breeding Report Sees Key Role For Vets - British Veterinary Association
  Fri, 15 January 2010
  Vets have welcomed Professor Bateson's report on dog breeding as an important step on a long journey to improving the health and welfare of all dogs...
• VGX Animal Health's Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone Shows Advantages Compared To Curren ...
  Fri, 08 January 2010
  VGX Animal Health, Inc. announced that data demonstrating the effectiveness of its plasmid-based growth hormone releasing hormone (pGHRH) technology was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Molecular Therapy in a paper entitled, A Comparison of the Growth Responses Following Intramuscular GHRH Plasmid Administrati ...
• Canine Compulsive Disorder Gene Identified, Shares Family With Recently Targeted Gene Fo ...
  Fri, 08 January 2010
  A canine chromosome 7 locus that confers a high risk of compulsive disorder susceptibility has been identified through a collaboration between the Behavior Service at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, the Program in Medical Genetics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Broad Institute at the Ma ...
• Cell Phone Waves Protected Mice Against Alzheimer's, Reversed Memory Damage
  Thu, 07 January 2010
  An international team of researchers studying the long term effects of electromagnetic waves like those emitted by cell phones on mice were surprised to find they protected their brains against Alzheimer's and even reversed the memory damage caused by the disease...
• Scientists Create Early-Warning System To Defend Rare Jersey Cows From Continental Disease
  Thu, 07 January 2010
  Scientists from the Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, UK Met Office and the Jersey State Veterinary Service and Jersey Meteorological Department, are working together on an early-warning system to help defend cattle against the spread of 'bluetongue' disease, reveals a study published today in Weather...
• Lung Cancer In Dogs Linked To Air Pollution, Study
  Wed, 06 January 2010
  Researchers in Italy and Switzerland suggest there is a link between primary lung cancer in dogs and dust matter accumulating in the lungs from exposure to air pollution...
• Toxicants Detected In Asian Monkey Hair May Warn Of Environmental Threats To People And ...
  Wed, 06 January 2010
  Testing hair from Asian monkeys living close to people may provide early warnings of toxic threats to humans and wildlife, according to a study published online this week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. In parts of South and Southeast Asia, macaques and people are synanthropic, which means they share the sa ...