News tagged with veterinary
Make your pets a part of your New Year's resolutions
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When drawing up a list of New Year's resolutions, be sure to include your pets, says Lorraine Corriveau, a wellness veterinarian at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine.
Swine flu toll includes a few pets
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A handful of pets have been sickened with swine flu in recent weeks, but here are doctors' orders: Wash your hands and don't panic.
NC State vets lead way in disaster response for animals
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Most people can picture the first responders who come to the rescue in the wake of a natural disaster. But who provides emergency help for the dogs, cats and horses that people love? And who takes care of ...
USDA confirms H1N1 in Minnesota pigs
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- At least one pig from Minnesota has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday, the first case of a pig contracting the virus in the United States.
Microchips result in higher rate of return of shelter animals to owners
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Animals shelter officials housing lost pets that had been implanted with a microchip were able to find the owners in almost three out of four cases in a recently published national study.
Ig Nobel: Researchers named the cream of the crop
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Newcastle scientists Dr Catherine Douglas and Dr Peter Rowlinson have won the Ig Nobel Prize for Veterinary Medicine for their work looking at reducing stress levels in dairy cattle. In a paper published earlier this year, they described how giving a cow ...
Tiny pump means pain relief for big cats
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Veterinarians from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo and the University of Tennessee have found a solution to the challenge of providing effective pain relief to some of their most difficult patients: ...
Vet scientists' work on diagnostic, intervention tools for H1N1 helps human health lab, too
Aug 18, 2009 |
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If some day you are tested for the H1N1 virus without the painful prick of a needle, thank a pig -- and a team of Kansas State University researchers and their collaborators who are connecting animal and human health.
'Long-haired' water moulds are the most virulent
Jul 22, 2009 |
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The water mould Saprolegnia can cause skin disease in salmon during its freshwater phase. The mould attacks both fish and eggs and has at times caused great economic loss for the fish farming industry, both in ...
Climate change amplifying animal disease
May 25, 2009 |
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Climate change is widening viral disease among farm animals, expanding the spread of some microbes that are also a known risk to humans, the world's top agency for animal health said on Monday.
Using 'dominance' to explain dog behavior is old hat
May 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study shows how the behaviour of dogs has been misunderstood for generations: in fact using misplaced ideas about dog behaviour and training is likely to cause rather than cure unwanted ...
Veterinarians at high risk for viral, bacterial infections from animals
May 15, 2009 |
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The recent H1N1 influenza epidemic has raised many questions about how animal viruses move to human populations. One potential route is through veterinarians, who, according to a new report by University of Iowa College of ...
Veterinary oncologists advance cancer drugs for humans and pets
Apr 15, 2009 |
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As more pet owners are choosing to treat their pets' cancers through advanced medicine, veterinarians gain valuable knowledge about the progression and treatment of cancers in humans through pet trials of new drugs. To help ...
The pig of the future might be free of diseases that can infect people
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Pigs are known carriers of the bacterium Yersinia enterocolitica, and they can infect both other pigs and people. Human infection occurs through eating improperly-cooked pork. Professor Truls Nesbakken of the Norwegian School o ...
DNA analysis uncovers the prehistory of Norwegian red deer
Mar 24, 2009 |
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For his doctoral thesis, Hallvard Haanes discovered that Norwegian red deer are genetically different from other European red deer, due to their historical distribution. However, a century ago, red deer were ...
