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Pet Community and UC Davis Veterinary Students Benefit from Spay Day Rob Warren March 08, 2022 To celebrate Spay & Neuter Awareness Month, the Sacramento SPCA recently presented Spay Day 2022. The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine teamed up with the host organization to provide low-cost spay surgeries to local dogs in need. Annually, […]

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Dr. Trepanier said the tags and wristbands are exciting new tools for environmental monitoring, and they are good for measuring exposures to volatile organic compounds such as pesticides and flame retardants. The post Silicone Tags Used to Identify Dogs’ Pollution Exposures appeared first on School of Veterinary Medicine.

The Effects of Chronic Exposure to Ambient Traffic-Related Air Pollution on Alzheimer’s Disease Trina Wood March 07, 2022 by Gretchen Reynolds in the New York Times A New York Times article refers to the UC Davis study showing the effects of chronic exposure to traffic-related air pollution on aging brains—and quotes the school’s Dr. Pam Lein. Work […]

Joseph Thurston, a third-year student at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, plans to go straight into practice after graduating. He’d like to see students become more educated on the wide range of factors involved in choosing between an internship and practice, and consider following his example, getting experience on the job — […]

In the battle against disease transmission, pork farmers have to look out for more than just sick pigs. Researchers from North Carolina State University modeled nine different potential transmission routes for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), and found that trucks used to move not only animals, but also farm workers and feed, can […]

Monday, March 7, 2022 – 9:37am Delco-horse-portrait1280px.jpg Michelle Delco ’98, D.V.M. ’02, Ph.D. ’16, is a board-certified large animal surgeon and assistant research professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences whose time spent in clinical practice treating equine athletes for sports injuries has motivated her to discover new ways to treat and prevent osteoarthritis. Photo: […]