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Dr. Jerome Joseph’s surgery prep begins well before he even thinks about inserting an IV near a patient’s paw, hoof or fin. Anesthetizing an animal is careful and detailed work that requires precise knowledge of disease and drug processes in addition to understanding the animal’s health status and history. It also involves many calculations around […]

The AHDC is now offering a Bovine Viral Respiratory PCR panel (test code BRPNL), which includes Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVD), Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Beta Coronavirus, Parainfluenza 3 Virus and Bovine Herpesvirus 1 (also called Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR)).

Frannie’s Instagram page documenting her weight-loss journey has grown to more then 400,000 followers. The UC Davis William R.

Kaya Miller, a second-year UC Davis undergraduate, introduces her three 3-week-old foster kittens: Anna, Elsa and Merida. She explains that as a busy student, she and her roommate have taken on alternating shifts feeding and cleaning the kittens. “It’s a lot of dedication; we have to wake up every two hours, but it’s so worth […]

An oral vaccine reduced infection risk in a trial where people were deliberately exposed to high doses of norovirus, and could also slow the spread of the pathogen

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The NC Department of Environmental Quality has awarded Dr. Tal Ben-Horin, an assistant professor of shellfish pathology at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, a $200,000 grant to continue studying whether the genetic lines of farmed oysters that survive mass casualty events can be used to breed more resilient oysters. The popular delicacies have […]

A foster kitten in search of a home found just that at the MSU Veterinary Medical Center when undergoing surgical repair for a heart defect.

When Deidre Bruce took her newly adopted cat Punky to his first couple veterinary appointments in 2021, the last thing she expected to learn was that 1-year-old Punky had a progressive and incurable heart condition. Punky was diagnosed with feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition that causes thickening of the heart’s walls and can eventually lead […]

On June 27-29, Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine will host its sixth annual conference for the Cornell Veterinary Educators Academy (CVEA) in Ithaca, New York.