/b/veterinary-news/posts/virbac-launches-phenobarbital-based-canine-epilepsy-treatment Virbac has announced the launch of Epirepress (phenobarbital) for the treatment of epilepsy in dogs, designed to make dosing and dispensing easy and accurate for practice staff and owners. Virbac says phenobarbital is the only medication licenseden-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/virbac-launches-phenobarbital-based-canine-epilepsy-treatmentThu, 02 Feb 2017 08:58:57 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:1b446604-b199-4da6-9b87-132c74bfd24dJudith Archbold0<p>Not sure if I&#39;m missing the point here, but this is just reinventing the wheel surely? It&#39;s not a major drain on time resources to count tablets into a pot.</p> <p>And if their USP is the licence to treat &quot; idiopathic and structural epilepsy&quot; , well that&#39;s most cases in general practice anyway as many clients either can&#39;t afford or choose &nbsp;not to send their pet for an MRI scan. </p> <p>The only advantage I can see in this product is the ability to split the tablet into 4 &nbsp;easily : &nbsp;so I predict it will work out more economical for use in cats, as opposed to buying 15mg tablets.</p> <img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/aggbug?PostID=140228&AppID=5&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">