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    First veterinary nurse to sit on RCVS Council

    The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has announced that Andrea Jeffery, the first veterinary nurse to sit on RCVS Council, will take up her place from July this year. According to the RCVS, the move recognises the increasing importance of veterinary...
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    CEVA Animal Health launches new D.A.P. website

    CEVA Animal Health has launched a new website - www.dapfordogs.com - to advise veterinary professionals and dog owners about its veterinary behaviour product, D.A.P. The new site features advice on how to prevent stress at key stages of a dog's...
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    Royal Canin launches UK's first diet for stressed cats and dogs

    Royal Canin has launched 'Calm', described as the UK's first complete nutritional support for cats and dogs during stress. Royal Canin says Calm contains a combination of two nutrients known to help support stress management. Alpha-casozepine...
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    Vetoquinol launches new meloxicam injection for young cattle and pigs

    Vetoquinol has announced the introduction of Melovem to the UK market. Melovem is a new injectable preparation containing 5mg/ml meloxicam which is licensed for use in pigs and young cattle. According to the company, meloxicam is the most widely used...
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    National Veterinary Services announces Cyclone winners

    National Veterinary Services has announced the winners of its 'Cyclone' competition held at BSAVA this year. Visitors to the company's stand were asked to climb into a perspex box and grab as many fast-moving balls as they...
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    Avid offers free updates in June for all PETtrac members

    To coincide with National Microchipping Month in June this year, Avid will update the details of any pet with an Avid microchip registered on the UK 24hr PETtrac microchip database free of charge, saving their owner £6 for a change of address and £12...
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    RCVS retention fees: time to cough up

    Over 1,200 members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, including around 800 UK-practising veterinary surgeons, have not yet paid their retention fees, and face being removed from the Register if they do not pay before 29 May 2010. Veterinary...
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    Virbac offers practices shampoo & skin care packs for pet owners

    Virbac Animal Health is offering practices an educational shampoo and skin care pack for pet owners. The pack is free to practices that buy any 12 shampoos from the Virbac range. In return the practice will receive a range of educational and point...
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    Win a Selekt Cattle Pump worth £240 with Marbocyl 10%

    Vetoquinol is offering vets the opportunity to win one of five Selekt Cattle Pumps worth £240. In order to take part, you'll need to tell Vetoquinol about your experiences with Marbocyl 10% when treating acute mastitis. Susan Mitchell, Vetoquinol's...
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    RVC 'cyber-roach' offers new insight into animal movement

    A team of researchers at the Royal Veterinary College have discovered that many-legged animals control their movement in a surprisingly different way to bipedal animals, following a study on cockroaches using tiny accelerometers and advanced computer...
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    Millpledge launches probiotic for cats and dogs

    Millpledge has launched Promodulate Probiotic Powder, which, according to the company, combines beneficial bacteria with a pre-biotic, vitamins and electrolytes to rebalance gut flora, fluid and electrolyte balance in cats and dogs. The powder is presented...
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    Channel 4 searching for TV vets and nurses

    Maverick Television is looking for three veterinary surgeons and two veterinary nurses to front a new Channel 4 television show. Maverick, makers of Embarrassing Bodies and Bizarre Animal ER , says the new show will be about embarrassing animal behaviours...
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    New antibiotic spray for farm animals

    Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has launched a new oxytetracycline spray which the company says offers more accurate antibiotic delivery whether the can is used in an upright or inverted position. Alasdair King MRCVS, Intervet/Schering-Plough...
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    CEVA offers free multi-dose injector gun with bulk purchase of Enzaprost

    CEVA Animal Health is supplying a free, multi-dose injector gun with a self-sterilising needle system, with the purchase of bulk quantities of its luteolytic and uterotonic prostaglandin Enzaprost, while stocks last. According to the company, the...
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    Intervet Schering-Plough launches 'Primp My Pooch' campaign

    Following Intervet Schering-Plough's launch of Plerion, a chewable, flavoured wormer for dogs, the company has launched a consumer viral marketing campaign in which they invite pet owners to 'Primp Your Pooch' at the website www.plerion.co...
  • Small Animal Medicine Society

    NEW Content on SAMSOC Website

    Hi everyone Jon Wray presented a seminar on writing a CERTSAM casebook at the meeting this year and he has kindly agreed to allow us to post the notes for this session in the media section of the SAMSOC website. This document is accessible to...
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    Genitrix launches discounted blood tests for epileptic dogs

    Following the launch of Libromide, the only licensed formulation of potassium bromide in the UK for canine epilepsy, Genitrix has linked up with NationWide Veterinary Laboratories to offer a discounted blood test service to veterinary practices. Ge...
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    RCVS Council election results are in ...

    Results for the 2010 RCVS Council elections have been released today and, following a slight increase in turnout for the second year running, four existing Council Members and one former Member have been returned for another four years. However, new...
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    Avid MicroChips can now be registered in one click

    Avid, the maker of pet microchip indentification products has developed its registration system so that Avid MicroChips can now be registered via practice management software using the VetXML schema . This instantly registers the microchip directly...
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    Disciplinary case against Kent vet dismissed

    The Disciplinary Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has dismissed a case against a veterinary surgeon from Kent having found him not guilty of serious professional misconduct. Mr Francois-Guillame Saulnier-Troff - formerly an employee...
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    Hill's provides Dietary Key online

    Hill's has made the Dietary Key, it's detailed guide to the ingredients, nutritional analysis and feeding recommendations for every Hill's product, available online at www.hillsproducts.com . Hill's says the UK is the first country...
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    Braid Vets sign 1000th Pet Health Plan member

    Edinburgh-based Braid Vets has signed up its 1000th client to the practice's VIP (Very Important Pet) Pet Health Plan. To mark the event, staff at the practice and Kenneth Agnew from Practice Plan For Vets Ltd, presented 1000th member Douglas Roberts...
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    CEVA launches pheromone reference guide

    CEVA Animal Health, manufacturer of the veterinary behaviour products Feliway and D.A.P., has launched a guide to the practical applications of pheromones. The 80 page book, entitled 'D.A.P. ® and Feliway ® Papers and Abstracts', features...
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    Drontal sales soar on the back of national advertising campaign

    Bayer Animal Health reports that sales of Drontal have achieved double digit growth following the company's recent advertising campaign. The company says its marketing push has been so successful that 83% of cat and dog owners now name Drontal...
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    Success in Veterinary Practice reviewed

    Success in Veterinary Practice by Dr. Bradley Viner DProf BVetMed MSc(VetGP) MRCVS is now available from Wiley Blackwell at £28.99. Teeside general practitioner Rob Reid BVM&S MRCVS has reviewed the book for members of VetSurgeon.org: There...