Veterinary Medicine News

Posted May 9, 2011:

• Fast, Sensitive Blood Test for Human Prion Disease
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Coroners Wrong to Say No to Post-Mortem Tissue Collection, UK Academics Argue

Posted April 26, 2011:

• Flame Retardants at High Levels in Pet Dogs, Study Finds

Posted April 25, 2011:

• Pioneering Animal Diabetes Treatment: Researchers Adapt Human Continuous Glucose Monitors for Pets
• Wild Hogs: Researchers Examine Impact of Feral Pigs in Eastern North Carolina

Posted April 19, 2011:

• Breed-Specific Causes of Death in Dogs Revealed in Landmark Study

Posted April 18, 2011:

• Tibetian Terrier Dogs Could Play Key Role in Developing Therapy for Early-Onset Parkinson’s

Posted April 6, 2011:

• Treating Newborn Horses: A Unique Form of Pediatrics
• Sniffing out Lymphoma by 'Turning Dogs Into Humans'

Posted March 29, 2011:

• Calculating Livestock Numbers by Weather and Climate

Posted March 28, 2011:

• Human Virus Linked to Deaths of Endangered Mountain Gorillas; Finding Confirms That Serious Diseases Can Pass to Gorillas from People
• New Trash-to-Treasure Process Turns Landfill Nuisance Into Plastic

Posted March 23, 2011:

• First French Bulldog With Sex Reversal Identified in Spain

Posted March 22, 2011:

• Plant Buffers Can Slow Runoff of Veterinary Antibiotics

Posted March 21, 2011:

• Motion Sensors Used to Determine Equine Lameness

Posted March 16, 2011:

• Wide Variety in Nutritional Content Found in 'Senior' Dog Foods

Posted March 15, 2011:

• Sheep Genomic Advances

Posted March 14, 2011:

• New Research Focuses on Prion Diseases

Posted March 10, 2011:

• Grab the Leash: Dog Walkers More Likely to Reach Exercise Benchmarks

Posted February 28, 2011:

• Scientists Generate Pluripotent Stem Cells from Horses

Posted February 23, 2011:

• Needle-in-a-Haystack Search Identifies Potential Brain Disease Drug

Posted February 17, 2011:

• Unraveling How Prion Proteins Move Along Axons in the Brain

Posted February 16, 2011:

• New Testing Could Replace Colonoscopies in the Future

Posted February 10, 2011:

• Livestock Boom Risks Aggravating Animal 'Plagues,' Poses Threat to Food Security and World's Poor

Posted February 2, 2011:

• Anthropologists Discover Earliest Cemetery in Middle East

Posted January 31, 2011:

• Dogs Can Accurately Sniff out Early Stage Bowel Cancer

Posted January 19, 2011:

• Prion Disease Spreads in Sheep Via Mother's Milk

Posted January 18, 2011:

• Healthy Gums, Healthy Lungs: Maintaining Healthy Teeth and Gums May Reduce Risk for Pneumonia, Chronic Obstructive Pumonary Disease
• Obesity in Horses Could Be as High as in Humans

Posted January 13, 2011:

• Airborne Pathogens Can Induce Mad Cow Disease, New Findings Suggest
• Cattle Health and Welfare at Heart of Research on Bovine Lameness, a Common and Painful Disease in Calves
• Back Pain in Both Master and Dog, Swedish Research Shows

Posted January 10, 2011:

• New Drug Target for Prion Diseases, 'Mad Cow'

Posted January 4, 2011:

• Vitamin D Deficiencies May Impact Onset of Autoimmune Lung Disease

Posted December 20, 2010:

• A Possible Cause – And Cure – For Genital Cancer in Horses?

Posted December 17, 2010:

• Prions Mutate and Adapt to Host Environment

Posted December 14, 2010:

• How Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Begins Infection in Cattle

Posted December 9, 2010:

• A Rare Human Genetic Disease, Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, Is Better Understood Because of the Canine Genome

Posted December 8, 2010:

• Shoo, Fly! Catnip Oil Repels Bloodsucking Flies

Posted December 2, 2010:

• Early Detection Is Possible for Prion Diseases, Study Suggests

Posted December 1, 2010:

• New Prion Discovery Reveals Drug Target for Mad Cow Disease and Related Illnesses

Posted November 29, 2010:

• Thirty-Five New Families of Endogenous Retroviruses Discovered

Posted November 19, 2010:

• Invention Helps Students Learn Surgical Techniques Before Operating on Patients

Posted November 15, 2010:

• New Microorganisms Linked to Gill Disease in Salmon

Posted November 10, 2010:

• How Key Drug Kills Worms in Tropical Diseases

Posted November 9, 2010:

• Young, Unsupervised Children Most at Risk for Dog Bites, Study Shows; Dogs Often Target a Child's Face and Eyes

Posted October 28, 2010:

• Skin Lesions -- An Indicator of Sub-Standard Animal Welfare?

Posted October 19, 2010:

• Eye Test for Neurological Diseases in Livestock Developed

Posted October 12, 2010:

• Prenatal Treatment of Congenital Toxoplasmosis Could Reduce Risk of Brain Damage

Posted September 30, 2010:

• Dog Ownership Is Associated With Reduced Eczema in Children With Dog Allergies

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