No Pet Store Puppies Day Is July 21 July 21 is National No Pet Store Puppies Day. This is a great chance to educate your friends and family about what happens in puppy mills and remind them not to buy puppies, or any pet supplies, from pet stores that sell puppies—and adopt from a shelter or rescue group instead! Puppy mill cruelty is a...

When we consider our dogs’ health risks, we seldom think about the month our pups were born. Many of us who have adopted rescue or shelter dogs have no idea what year they were born, much less what month. This article, by Dr. Karen Becker, offers some surprising information on how the time of year a dog was born might affect its health. Healthy...

American Veterinarian By Kate Boatright, VMD What is metronomic chemotherapy, and how does it differ from traditional chemotherapy? Chemotherapy offers pets with cancer the ability to live longer with better quality of life despite having a terminal disease. However, traditional chemotherapy protocols are not the right fit for every owner, patient, or disease process. A newer option called metronomic chemotherapy offers an alternative treatment,...

Don’t worry, these diseases can’t spread to people. By Lexi Krupp from Popular Science Whenever Máire Ní Leathlobhair visits a new city, she calls up vets in the area. She wants to know if they’ve seen any dogs harboring ugly genital tumors, contagious lumps that contain one of the more bizarre cancers in the world. Back in her lab, a map hangs on the...

From Mass Live By Garry Brown Charlie Spillman, of Nashville, feels fine, thank you. He’s friendly, frisky, happy-go-lucky. For Charlie, life is good. In 2016, it was not. An MRI revealed a cancerous tumor the size of a golf ball on the left hemisphere of his brain. Such a tumor, known as meningioma, can grow quickly and be life-threatening. Not so with Charlie. Four...

[We hope this has a potential application for our companion animals as well.]   From Fierce Biotech by Arlene Weintraub Engineered cancer cells may be able to home in on tumors in hard-to-reach places like the brain. (monsitj / iStock / Getty Images Plus) Taking healthy immune-boosting T cells from patients and engineering them to recognize and kill cancer is a well-established approach now,...

From American Veterinarian A veterinary research group at OSU has confirmed the existence of an exotic tick that has been previously reported in New Jersey, Virginia, and West Virginia. By Amanda Carrozza Tick season is upon us, so it may come as no surprise that a research group at Oklahoma State University’s (OSU) Center for Veterinary Health Sciences has confirmed the existence of an exotic...

JAVMA News By Katie Burns Posted July 11, 2018 Cannabis is just one focus of current clinical trials involving animals, with others focusing on treatments such as stem cells and monoclonal antibodies. “Veterinary clinical studies conducted to investigate novel therapies or to collect samples or information to gain further understanding of a disease provide the best scientific evidence to guide the clinical care of...

One Health – It’s all connected From the AVMA One Health is the integrative effort of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, and the environment. Together, the three make up the One Health triad, and the health of each is inextricably connected to the others in the triad. Understanding and addressing the health issues created at...