March 04, 2021
Chatting with Temple Grandin on dogs, fear, and socialization
Read all about it in NEWStat ’s exclusive interview with veterinary superstar Temple Grandin.
March 04, 2021
Read all about it in NEWStat ’s exclusive interview with veterinary superstar Temple Grandin.
March 10, 2021
New research suggests that simple changes in activity levels and diet can reduce free-roaming cats’ predation.
March 17, 2021
Bravo Packing, Inc., has expanded a voluntary recall of two frozen raw pet food products after samples tested positive for Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes .
September 29, 2021
An Illinois man who woke up to find a bat nestled on his neck in mid-August has died of rabies. In a bitterly ironic twist, his death was announced on Tuesday—World World Rabies Day.
October 09, 2020
Last month, Sunshine Mills issued a dog food recall due to high levels of aflatoxin. Yesterday, they expanded the recall. Today, the FDA stepped in.
January 12, 2022
The sharpest rise in the Consumer Price Index in forty years is making itself felt in the veterinary space, where inflation has led to increases in lab and vendor fees.
February 02, 2015
At the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC) in Orlando, Fla. recently, IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. announced an upcoming kidney function test, symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA). The new renal biomarker identifies the onset of kidney disease months or even years earlier than traditional methods. On average, SDMA detected kidney disease when only 40% of function had been lost and, in some cases, 25% of function. (Typically, a diagnosis is made when 75% of kidney function has been irreversibly lost.)
January 23, 2007
New Drug Addresses Cellular Role in Obesity
April 04, 2019
A new study by scientists at the University of Liverpool and Mars Petcare’s Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition showed that the lifespans of overweight dogs were up to two-and-a-half years shorter than those of ideal-weight dogs.
October 03, 2018
We’re hoping you can help. Researchers at the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine are looking for pet owners who have cared for a dog or cat with chronic heart failure (CHF) sometime during the past 10 years, and who would be willing to participate in a new survey of owner experiences caring for dogs and cats with CHF.