The Royal Veterinary College has published a new study which concludes that owners of epileptic dogs value partnerships of care with their veterinary surgeon, and that owner satisfaction could be improved with more educational resources.

For the study…

Surgeons at Pride Veterinary Centre have claimed a UK-first for a procedure in which they used a tailor-made titanium implant to replace a cancerous vertebra in a nine-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

The dog presented to the Neurology and Neurosurgery…

A research group at CVS led by Sergio Gomes has published three studies looking at discospondylitis in dogs and cats.

Discospondylitis describes the infection of an intervertebral disc and its adjacent cartilaginous end plates and vertebral bodies.

It is…

Neurologists Nicolas Granger (pictured) and Jon Prager from Bristol Vet Specialists are recruiting dogs paralysed following thoraco-lumbar spinal cord injury for a study which aims to see whether new ultrasound software can predict recovery in dogs after…

Neurologist Matthew James from CVS's Dovecote Veterinary Hospital has been given BSAVA PetSavers Veterinary Achievement Award 2024 for research into the initial management of epileptic dogs in first opinion practice.

Matthew’s award is in recognition…

Research carried out at two CVS referral hospitals has found a significantly higher incidence of thoracolumbar invertebral disc extrusions (IVDE) in Dachshunds compared to Basset Hounds¹.

For the research, the medical histories of 188 Basset Hounds and…

Researchers have identified the probable cause of equine grass sickness as a neurotoxin, with similar actions to snake venom toxins but produced by pasture microbes¹.

The researchers, from the Dick Vet Equine Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Newcastle…

Researchers from the Royal Veterinary College working in collaboration with the University of Cambridge have found that anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) increase appetite in dogs with epilepsy, causing many of them to become overweight. 

The researchers say…