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New Treatment Available for Second Most Common Neurological Disorder in Dogs

Canine Sports Medicine Field Attracts Attention

When Jennifer McKay, DVM, began working to save the small dog’s life, she had no idea she belonged to a friend of hers. A friend who had already lost her life in the same tragic event that nearly took the dog’s.

Catch up on the latest pet and veterinary news from the last week. In this update: researchers try to improve police dogs' accuracy, the UK Kennel Club present best dog photography from 2016, a Neapolitan Mastiff wins the World's Ugliest Dog Contest, a dog's leg is saved by bone-growing technology, and a team uses dogs to try to find Amelia Earhart.

Imagine coming up with cures for human disease through laboratory testing on companion animals and coming up with a cure for the same disease in the animal while you’re at it? Talk about a win-win. Researchers at the University of Missouri (MU) aren’t quite there, but they’re getting close.

Seventy percent of cats show a paw preference when taking that first step down a flight of stairs. And if they use their right paw, odds are she’s a female.That’s the conclusion drawn by researchers from Queens University Belfast in a new study on limb preference in cats.

A recent review of trichomonosis in cats investigates what has been learned about it and the complications and frustrations that still persist. Researchers from North Carolina State University, while looking at studies that have advanced our understanding of trichomonosis, also consider what questions remain and the need for new treatments for the infection.

The surge in exotic diseases such as Ebola and SARS in people is proving to be a boon for cats. Both diseases have prompted intensive research into drugs that will cure or inhibit them. One of the most promising is Remdesiver (GS-5734), which, in studies, has proven effective in preventing Ebola in rhesus monkeys and inhibiting coronaviruses in infection models of mice.

Turkish researchers released a study in which they concluded that a xenograft bone plate and screw system – similar to a metal plate-screw (MPS) system except made of machined cow bone – is effective for stabilizing a dog’s spine after the facets and lamina were removed. Stiffness of cadaver dog vertebrae with varying degrees of stabilization was measured with a tensile compression testing machine to determine the stability of five test groups. The groups were tested under five types of load: flexion, extension, left and right bending and rotation. Despite the group’s findings, however, academics and practitioners are skeptical, with one specialist calling it “a horrible idea.”

Dogs Get Vomiting Drug of Their Own: Cerenia Works in Emetic Center of the Brain to Suppress Vomitin