Clinical
By integrating hospice and palliative medicine earlier, alongside oncology rather than after it, veterinary practices can elevate standards of care, strengthen client relationships, and support their teams more sustainably. The future of veterinary oncology is not just longer lives, but better lives. Concurrent care helps make that future possible.
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Ever struggle with communicating with clients about your cancer cases? Labby digs into the 2026 AAHA Oncology guidelines to offer helpful insights in this month’s Dear Labby.
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A new study examines the ocular and cardiovascular abnormalities suffered by a dog after she ingested a tube of ointment used to treat human dermatological conditions.
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How often do pets on chronic medication need some type of monitoring? And what do you when clients declined the recommended monitoring? These questions are being discussed in the AAHA Community, so we got some expert insight on the topic.
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A new case report in JAAHA shows that for feline patients, nutritional oversights can have catastrophic consequences.
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The Canine Health Foundation’s first Health Discovery Award Winner, Lisa Freeman, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (Nutrition), is pioneering research on the causes of diet-associated dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs.
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The National Institutes of Health has granted a MERIT Award for research from Colorado State’s Flint Animal Cancer Center, which is investigating how existing FAK inhibitor drugs can improve outcomes for osteosarcoma patients.
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As veterinary medicine progresses and dogs are living longer, age-related neurodegenerative diseases may become more significant concerns for more dogs. An international panel of experts is sharing their findings to help veterinary teams and families have a better understanding of canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome in their new guidelines on the topic.
Behavior and Training
While it’s not uncommon to see dogs undergoing rehabilitation exercises using hydrotherapy, for cats, it’s not exactly mainstream. But perhaps it should be. By using behavioral habituation and keeping the focus on the cat’s welfare and stress management front of mind, hydrotherapy can help cats just as much as it’s helped our canine companions, as seen here with Babaganoush, a young cat, who’s taking part in an advanced underwater treadmill session. (Photo courtesy of Laura Sinigoi via Stefania Uccheddu, DVM, PhD, Dipl ECAWBM.)
