Can You Solve This Puzzle?February 2, 2017 Pictured: Penis of a 6-month-old intact pit bull Questions What's your diagnosis? Describe a possibly life-threatening consequence. Describe three surgical steps. Comment on the prognosis.
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Have you experienced 'vet shopping'?January 24, 2017The use of opioids and dissociative anesthetics, such as fentanyl and ketamine respectively, are essential for veterinarians to treat severe pain and for surgery. However, with the United States facing a human-related opioid crisis, there are cases of pets being injured so their owners can get hold of their drugs.
Merck dog flu vaccine approvedJanuary 18, 2017The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Nobivac Canine Flu Bivalent, which manufacturer Merck Animal Health described as the first vaccine formulated to control subtypes H3N8 and H3N2.
The latest on veterinary cardiologyJanuary 12, 2017Veterinary medicine has come a long way in recent years, especially in cardiology, where a large volume of research is underway. Researchers and specialists are making strides in interventional cardiology, which uses advanced procedures and imaging techniques to perform minimally invasive therapy with certain cardiac diseases.
The hazards of chinese herbsJanuary 11, 2017Jen Hsou Lin, DVM, Ph.D., and Richard Panzer, DVM, MS—both recognized for their contributions to Chinese medical literature—published a paper in 1994 on the “Use of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Veterinary Science: History and Perspectives.”
20 ways to give top-notch pet patient careJanuary 10, 2017The Kirby’s Rule of 20 is a classic checklist of 20 important patient parameters. Its creator, Rebecca Kirby, double board-certified in internal medicine and critical care, is the former owner of Animal Emergency Center in Glendale, Wis.
Drug to treat canine lymphoma gets FDA approvalJanuary 3, 2017VetDC, Inc., a veterinary cancer therapeutics company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine has granted a conditional approval of Tanovea™-CA1 (rabacfosadine for injection) for the treatment of lymphoma in dogs.
Why clean margins are crucial in feline oral SCCDecember 27, 2016My September column [“Early detection is key with oral cancer”] briefly touched on feline oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), but the topic deserves more discussion as a stand-alone column.
Immunotherapy: The next best hope for defeating cancer?December 21, 2016Whether you’re treating something as deadly as cancer or as frustrating as chronic allergies, immunotherapy offers the possibility of slowing or reversing disease.
When is surgery a placebo?December 20, 2016Skeptics often claim that acupuncture is just a placebo.1-4 However, these individuals typically have neither closely examined the methodology for neuroanatomic overlap between verum and placebo “points,” which makes outcomes between groups similar, nor have they assessed the tissue-deforming effects of so-called “sham” needling because they simply assume that sham needles are inert. They aren’t.
