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Urinary Tract Health: Focus at ABVP Conference

New Approach to Placing Pacemakers

Alternatives to NSAIDs Attract Interest in Veterinary Field

MRIs Offer Bigger Picture of Stroke, Cancer, Orthopedic Injuries

Fourteen percent of men will develop prostate cancer. Ninety-nine percent of them will survive, thanks to treatment advances. And now, male canines with the same condition can take advantage of one of those advances. The University of California at Davis (UC Davis) is conducting a clinical trial to evaluate a new prostate cancer procedure similar to one in human medicine known as prostatic transarterial embolization. Unlike other prostate cancer therapies, this one is minimally invasive.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) have identified the biological mechanism that may give some cancer cells the ability to form tumors in dogs. The findings, published in the journal Veterinary and Comparative Oncology on Feb. 16, may eventually provide oncologists with another target for therapy and improve outcomes for canine patients with the disease.

Many animal hospitals are missing out on substantial revenue by not encouraging enough clients to bring their pets in for revisits. Veterinary business consultant Diederik Gelderman, BVSc, told his audience how to quickly boost their revisit numbers during his presentation at the 2014 AVMA Annual Convention.

Ohio State University is looking for dogs with osteoarthritis for a study of a potential new treatment for the painful joint disease. The treatment has already shown significant reductions in lameness for equine osteoarthritis patients, but its effectiveness has not yet been tested on dogs with the disease.

ACL Surgeries Get National Consumer Attention

New Approaches to Palliative Care for Osteosarcoma