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Tuesday, May 10, 2022 – 9:34am As winter recedes, migrant songbirds are returning to the Finger Lakes Region to nest and raise their young. One eastern phoebe, however, may not have that chance. Found in a glue trap meant to capture insects, the small bird was taken to Cornell’s  Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Hospital after […]

Surgery and Radiation Successfully Treat Husky’s Tumor Rob Warren May 10, 2022 Jerico on her way home from the UC Davis veterinary hospital. Jerico, an 8-year-old female Siberian husky, began growing a mass on her rear limb. When owners Rita and Victor Martinez shared the news with a friend—a medical doctor at UC Davis—he referred […]

When members of the Class of 2022 showed up for the first day of classes at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, little did they know that a global pandemic would turn their path to a degree in veterinary medicine upside down.  Having endured COVID testing, distance learning, social distancing, mandatory masks and more, […]

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Dr. Dee Thornell (class of 1981) returned to campus last week to address the class of 2022 and accept an award at the CVM Awards Ceremony. This provided the perfect opportunity to talk with her about her time as a student and the experiences she’s had since graduating.

The next director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Global Health Institute has decades of experience studying viruses, including those that jump from animals to humans, and ways to prevent their spread. Jorge Osorio is an expert in epidemiology, virology and vaccines and a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine. He takes over his role […]

Researchers say a fatal rabbit hemorrhagic disease, RHDV2, is spreading across the U.S. In response to the outbreak, the UW Veterinary Care Special Species Health Service at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine is offering an emergency-authorized vaccine against the disease for rabbits. The post UW Veterinary Care Offers Rabbit Vaccine Against Fatal […]

Researchers have found that a suite of complimentary tests can quantify changes in dogs suspected of suffering from cognitive decline. The approach could not only aid owners in managing their elderly canine’s care, but could also serve as a model for evaluating cognitive decline progression in – and treatments for – humans with Alzheimer’s disease. […]

Graduates of the College’s Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology Program are hooded at their commencement ceremony.

A new study published in Scientific Reports has revealed the strongest evidence to date that all bison in North America carry multiple small, but clearly identifiable, regions of DNA that originated from domestic cattle. In the study, Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) researchers, led by Drs. James Derr and Brian […]