Veterinary News Headlines

    BVA and AVS ask practices not to take advantage of students and new grads during pandemic

    The British Veterinary Association and the Association of Student Vets are asking veterinary practices not to exploit recruitment fears caused by the coronavirus pandemic by offering unpaid or voluntary work to final year students and new graduates....

    New initiative to drive research into pet chicken health and welfare

    The British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT) is launching a forum to facilitate research into the welfare of pet chickens. According to the charity, hens have been badly neglected by the world of evidence-based academic research, with only two known papers...

    New research shows one dog every hour is a victim of intentional harm

    The RSPCA has released new figures which show that between 2016 and 2020, 63,881 incidents of intentional harm involving dogs were reported to the charity's cruelty line: 34 a day or more than one every hour across England and Wales. The figures, published...

    Herts referral centre boosts oncology team

    Hertfordshire-based Davies Veterinary Specialists has expanded its oncology service with the appointment of American Specialist in Veterinary Oncology, Sarah Benjamin. This brings the total number of oncology specialists to four, within a service comprising...

    Oral homecare webinar for vets

    Animalcare is launching a series of webinars for vets about oral homecare, to help you make practical recommendations to clients about caring for their pets' teeth. The first webinar Does Ease of Use Have to Come at the Expense of Efficacy? is presented...

    VetYou launches mortgage and rent payment protection plan for vets

    VetYou, in collaboration with Future Proof Limited, has launched Home Protector, a mortgage and rent payment protection plan for veterinary professionals. The plan covers mortgage or rent payments of up to £2000 per month for up to a year if you are...

    VMD publishes results of drug re-classification review

    The Veterinary Medicines Directorate has published the results of the distribution category review, which has recommended the re-classification of 50 products from POM-V or POM-VPS to a less restrictive distribution category. Not all the products...

    Novartis launches new initiative in fight against BVD

    Novartis Animal Health has launched Farming against BVD , a new initiative to help in the fight against Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD). The campaign, which is being carried out in partnership with key industry bodies, will begin with an independent...

    New parasite booklet to offer clients

    Ceva Animal Health, maker of Milbactor, Vectra 3D and Vectra Felis, has launched a new booklet for practices to give clients: Protecting your Pet from Parasites . The booklet offers an overview of the common ecto and endoparasites that can affect...

    Improve launches ophthalmology online learning programme

    Improve International has launched an an online Postgraduate Certificate Programme, due to start in September. The new course will be led by Dr Pedro Malho, DipECVO CES OphtVet DVM MRCVS, a European and RCVS Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Ophthalmology...

    BSAVA publishes 100th client drug information leaflet

    The BSAVA has now published its 100th drug information leaflet for clients. Its 103rd, to be precise. The association began to produce client information leaflets in 2011, to help its members provide information to clients about the safe use of the...

    Harlow-based vet amongst first to gain GPCert(Endo)

    VetSurgeon.org member Aubrey Kumm MRCVS , a Joint Partner at Companion Care in Harlow, has become one of the first vets based in the UK to gain the GPCert(Endo) from the ESVPS . He joins a group of just 11 vets who currently hold this certificate in...

    Campaigners welcome draft leglislation to ban wild circus animals

    The Born Free Foundation, British Veterinary Association, Captive Animals' Protection Society and the RSPCA have welcomed the Government's draft legislation to ban the use of wild animals in circuses in England, to be implemented in 2015. The groups...

    Vet Charity Challenge 2014 to take place in Wiltshire

    Organisers of The Vet Charity Challenge, which last year raised £50,000 for charity, have announced that the event will take place Saturday 27th September 2014 in Pewsey, near Marlborough, Wiltshire. The event consists of teams of four walking/running...

    Monthly veterinary feline webinars start in the New Year

    The International Society of Feline Medicine (ISFM) has announced that it will be hosting monthly webinars for veterinary surgeons from January 2016. ISFM says it has selected highly qualified speakers who are passionate about cats to cover a range...

    TVM takes 'Lunch and Learn' sessions online

    TVM UK has announced that is taking its 'Lunch and Learn' CPD sessions, which normally take place in practices, online. The sessions, which are delivered by the company's territory managers and cover things like toxicology, ophthalmology and the management...

    Over 3000 respond to RCVS CPD consultation

    3,357 members of the profession, 69% of them veterinary surgeons and 30% veterinary nurses, have responded to the RCVS consultation asking for their views on proposals to move towards a more structured approach to continuing professional development...

    Numbers of non-vet TB testers continue to climb

    UK Farmcare reports that more than 60 people from across the agricultural community have registered an interest in training to become an Approved Tuberculin Tester (ATT) of cattle. The role was created last November when the Animal & Plant Health Agency...

    New website to support owners of dogs with epilepsy

    TVM has launched myepilepticpet.co.uk , a website to help pet owners with the practical challenges of caring for an epileptic dog and the emotional impact of the diagnosis. A 2022 study 1 conducted to understand owner perspectives, found that pet owners...

    Latest orthopaedic research from Movement Referrals

    Cheshire-based Movement Referrals has published it’s Clinical Research Report for 2023, a round-up of the latest research, peer-reviewed papers and publications by its team of four Specialists: Professor John Innes, Ben Walton, Mark Morton and Mark Lowrie...

    Finn Pathologists uses AI to improve prognostic scoring for canine mast cell tumours

    Finn Pathologists is introducing an AI-assisted Ki-67 scoring system to help predict the behaviour of canine mast cell tumours and offer more accurate prognostic evaluation. Ki-67 is a proliferation marker used for assessing tumour aggressiveness...

    CVS runs clinical improvement project to improve cardiac ultrasound scan rates

    CVS is running a clinical improvement project in 48 of its small animal practices to improve the use of cardiac ultrasound scans in first opinion heart disease diagnosis and treatment. The project looked first at how effective CVS small animal first...

    Vet launches new snack for dogs with cancer

    Dutch veterinary oncologist Camille De Ley has launched BraveBites, a snack designed to support canine cancer patients, in the UK. BraveBites contains protein, fish oil (rich in omega-3) and prebiotics. The snack, which was developed with a veterinary...

    New treatment for pruritic dogs claimed to be 50% more effective than Apoquel

    Elanco has launched Zenrelia (ilunocitinib), a once-daily tablet for pruritic dogs with atopic dermatitis, flea allergy dermatitis, food allergies and contact allergies, which the company claims is 50% more effective than Apoquel. Zenrelia is a new...

    Vets optimistic but concerned about stress

    Vet Futures, the joint initiative by the RCVS and the BVA to help the profession prepare for and shape its own future, has revealed the results of a survey which found that 59% of veterinary surgeons are optimistic about the future of the profession...