Veterinary News Headlines

    Cat charity HQ badly damaged in overnight blaze

    The Wiltshire headquarters of International Cat Care and the International Society of Feline Medicine were badly damaged in a fire last night. According to the charity, the fire broke out in an adjacent building in the early hours of the morning and...

    Improve launches distance learning postgrad programmes

    Improve International has announced the launch of two new distance learning (DL) postgrad certificates, the Certificate in Small Animal Surgery, which will start in February 2021, and the Certificate in Feline Practice, which will start in April. The...

    RCVS to move to Clerkenwell

    The RCVS has bought new premises at 1-2 Hardwick Street, Clerkenwell, London. Having sold Belgravia House – its Westminster offices since 1995 – to a private investor in March 2021 for £14.5m, RCVS Council agreed the purchase of the new building for...

    Ceva's new bluetongue vaccine to be available from mid-October

    Ceva Animal Health has announced that Bluevac-3, its new bluetongue (BTV-3) vaccine, will be available from mid-October. Bluevac-3 is an inactivated injectable vaccine indicated for the active immunisation against BTV-3 for use in sheep and cattle...

    CVS launches graduate farm vet exchange programme

    CVS is launching a New Graduate Farm Vet Exchange Programme to give young vets with up to two years’ experience the chance to spend time at another farm practice to develop their skills. Launching this spring, CVS says it's the only programme of its...

    Animalcare launches low-dose, long-acting florfenicol

    Animalcare has launched Florgane, a novel, patented, long acting florfenicol 300mg/ml suspension which the company says has significant advantages over existing organic solvent-based florfenicol products on the market when used for the treatment...

    BSAVA seeks unusual cases for Scottish Congress competition

    For the first time BSAVA is running a Case Report Competition to be held at the annual Scottish BSAVA Congress (26-28th August 2011 at the Edinburgh Conference Centre). Veterinary surgeons, nurses and students are invited to submit abstracts of no...

    New feline urine spraying treatment meta-analysis

    Ceva Animal Health has highlighted a new meta-analysis 1 which, according to the company, reveals that there is a significant (P< 0.001) association between the use of pharmacotherapy (fluoxetine and clomipramine) or pheromonatherapy (Feliway) and reduction...

    Ceva launches new travel size 20ml Feliway spray

    Ceva Animal Health has launched a new travel size 20ml bottle of Feliway Spray to help cat owners keep their pet comfortable whilst travelling this summer. To promote the launch Ceva is giving away thousands of prizes to Feliway customers, offering...

    Bayer launches flea animation to educate owners

    Bayer Animal Health, maker of Advantage, has produced a new animation to educate pet owners about fleas. The three minute animation, which is available on YouTube (below), is also available from Bayer for practices to play in the waiting room. ...

    Webinar to show practices how technology can ease the pressure

    Premier Vet Alliance is hosting a one hour webinar: "The Future Practice – Harnessing Technology To Help Your Team" on Thursday 26th May at 7:30pm. The webinar is presented by Will Stirling, partner at VetsDigital, a digital marketing agency which...

    Waltham-funded study finds more 'love hormone' in children with dogs

    A study by Gnanadesikan et al, supported by the Waltham Petcare Science Institute and published in Psychoneuroendocrinology has found higher levels of the so-called 'love hormone', oxytocin, in children after they interacted with dogs. In the study...

    Interventional radiology expert joins the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

    Dr. Tracy Hill, a specialist in internal medicine, has joined the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, bringing with her expertise in interventional radiology. Tracy completed a fellowship in interventional radiology and endoscopy at the...

    AHT calls for more help with Cushing's survey

    The Animal Health Trust has repeated its call for veterinary surgeons to take part in its survey study on breed differences in clinical features of canine hyperadrenocorticism. 40 veterinary surgeons have so far taken part in the survey, and preliminary...

    Royal Canin launches summer cat campaign

    Royal Canin is running summer marketing campaign focusing on felines, to help small animal practices further develop their relationships with cat-owning customers. The 'Summer of the Cat' campaign runs till the end of August and aims to help practices...

    Diabetes app brings management into 21st century

    The Royal Veterinary College has launched the Pet Diabetes App - designed to bring diabetes management in animals into the 21 st century and help ongoing research into the condition. The free app - which was designed by Dr Stijn Niessen, a Senior...

    RCVS launches Brexit survey for EU vets

    The RCVS has launched a survey for EU vets and nurses to share how Brexit has affected them. The survey asks EU nationals about their experience of practising in the UK since the referendum and will seek to find out what their career expectations and...

    Dechra to host CPD on cat inappetence, sedation of dogs, and strangles at London Vet Show

    Dechra Veterinary Products is hosting a series of one hour CPD sessions covering cat inappetence, the sedation of dogs, and strangles at the London Vet Show this year (17th/18th November). At 9.00am on Thursday and 1.45pm on Friday, Dr Sam Taylor,...

    BVA launches veterinary workplace accreditation scheme

    The British Veterinary Association has launched 'Great Workplaces', a workplace accreditation scheme designed to help address some of the recruitment and retention issues in the veterinary profession. The BVA says that securing 'Great Workplaces' will...

    BVA refuses Badger Trust's call to support judicial review

    The President of the British Veterinary Association has written to the Badger Trust to clarify the BVA position on the pilot badger culls in England, stating that it will not be supporting the Trust's application for a judicial review. The BVA Council...

    MSD launches the first intramuscular Lawsonia pig vaccine in the UK

    MSD Animal Health has launched Porcilis Lawsonia, the first intramuscular pig vaccine to control Lawsonia intracellularis, the bacteria which causes Ileitis. MSD says Lawsonia intracellularis is found on many finishing farms throughout the UK, and...

    Endoscopy client information leaflets now available from the BSAVA

    The BSAVA has published seven new client information leaflets covering upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, laparoscopy, laryngoscopy and tracheobronchoscopy, otoendoscopy, rhinoscopy and urethrocystoscopy. The leaflets...

    AHDA and AMTRA say BVA is wrong about anthelmintics

    The Animal Medicines Distributors Association (AHDA) and the Animal Medicines Training Regulatory Authority (AMTRA) have both come out against the BVA's call for all anthelmintic medicines to be reclassified as POM-V , which would prevent them being...

    Last call to take part in SPVS salary survey

    The Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons (SPVS) is putting out a last call to take part in the SPVS Salaries Survey 2015, open to everybody working in the veterinary profession. The long-standing survey provides a benchmark for veterinary surgeons...

    New time-saver for recruiting practices

    VetSurgeon.org has launched 'Find our jobs', a new badge for practices to add to their websites which links to a display of JUST the vacancies they've advertised on VetSurgeon.org and VetNurse.co.uk. The example above right demonstrates a badge...