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Posted on August 31, 2010
In the spring of 2009, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) conducted a web based survey that was sent to all graduating veterinary students at the 28 veterinary colleges in the United States[1]. There were 2,385 responders, which made up 95.7% of all U.S. graduating veterinarians. By the time the survey was sent out in [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2010
Registration procedures and deadlines for April NAVLE February 15, 2010 - Deadline for repeating candidates to apply for NAVLE April 12-24 - April NAVLE Testing Window VIRMP Match February 8, 2010 – Match Results Date. Results will be posted to the VIRMP website. Institutions may print matched lists, unmatched applicants list and open positions list. Matched applicants [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2010
Written by Ira Gordon, DVM DACVR-RO (Radiation Oncology) In December 2009, several studies were widely covered by the national media that attempted to assess the risk of radiation induced cancer from having a diagnostic CT scan. While this data focused on the risks of human patients, the concern about this issue will undoubtedly also be [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2010
The Morris Animal Foundation surveyed over 1,100 people to look at the reasons why people did not currently or previously own cats. More than half of these non-cat owners had negative feelings toward cats and the main drivers for negative views were shedding, litter box smell, biting, and perceived inability to coexist with other pets. [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2010
Radiation therapy continues to become more widely available to pet owners and an option to consider for many veterinary oncology patients. Improvements in technology continue to increase the potential applications of veterinary radiation oncology and decrease the side effects associated with treatment. An issue that has received less consideration but may be equally or more [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2010
It is anticipated that in the next 5-10 years, insurance will alter the way many of us practice veterinary medicine. Most veterinarians hope that the main change will be that more people will be able to pursue the diagnostics and therapies that their pets need and that fewer animals will need to be euthanized because [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2009
The patient is 4.54 billion years old, weighs 5.94 x 1024 tons, has a girth of 24,900 miles, is the third planet from the sun and looks like a blue marble from space. For medical record purposes, this female patient is called ‘Mother Earth’. Her skin, called tectonic plates, came to life (welcome RNA, DNA!) [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2009
Written By Bradford P Smith, DVM, DACVIM On September 22 the New York Times reported “On Monday, China became the first country in the world to begin a national swine flu vaccination campaign…” The Times also reported that the National Institute of Health had announced that a single dose of vaccine is sufficient to protect [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2009
In 2007, the USDA issued a conditional U.S. Veterinary Biological Product License for Merial’s canine melanoma vaccine. This is the first time the U.S. government has approved the use of a vaccine for the treatment of cancer (in animals or people). The research and production of the vaccine has been through a collaboration between The [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2009
Written By: Bradford P Smith, DVM, DACVIM, Professor Emeritus Why talk about death statistics? Isn’t that a taboo subject? The reason to write about this and talk to friends about it is because most causes of death in your young age group are preventable. If you think and act responsibly, you can prevent bad things [...]
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