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With the help of Texas A&M experts, one family championed their beloved service dog, saving him from heartworms as repayment for the love he had given them in their times of need. Rocky with a toy of his favorite animal, a duck; photos by Jason Nitsch ’14, VMBS Marketing & Communications When Texas A&M University […]

Principle Investigator Dr. Nolan Description NC State is recruiting dogs with bone cancer (osteosarcoma) for a clinical trial that compares 2 radiotherapy approaches. Each enrolled dog will get a single dose of radiotherapy, followed within 3 weeks by standard surgery (limb amputation). Testing Requirements Large or giant breed dogs may be eligible if they have: […]

In 2023, Cayuga Health—the leading healthcare provider in Tompkins County—received $7.7 million dollars in New York State funding to develop a local Community Health & Resource Network to enable social care providers to seamlessly receive and send referrals across organizations and providers. An initial cohort of 15 local organizations helped develop the Network, and now […]

A five-year global initiative in community health and One Health — in collaboration with University of Saskatchewan (USask) faculty and students — will help empower poor, marginalized farmers in rural Africa, especially female-headed households, women and girls.

Good news first: Avian flu does not currently pose a widespread risk to human health. But as it burns through California’s poultry and dairy industries, it’s sickening farmworkers, hitting the state’s agricultural economy hard and jacking up the price of eggs for all.

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I’m a senior veterinarian at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which is an umbrella organization and includes the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, Queens Zoo, and the New York Aquarium— along with a separate international conservation program. I am based at the Bronx Zoo (the largest of the WCS institutions), but I […]

Associate Professor Crystal Rogers is one of eight faculty members who comprise the newest class of UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellows, given to early career academics doing exemplary work in their fields. 

Douglas Mader, MS, DVM, DABVP (C/F, R/A), DECZM (Herpetology) Dr. Douglas Mader, Class of 1986, was recently honored with the UC Davis Lifetime Achievement Award.

Once consisting of two unique herds, researchers believe the Yellowstone bison herds should now be managed as one interbreeding population. Researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) have discovered that bison in Yellowstone National Park — the only group of American bison that has continually existed as wildlife in […]