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Latest Veterinary News & Clinical Insights
What Healthy Paws Data Reveals About Today’s Pet Owner—and Why It Matters in Practice
Veterinarians don’t need a survey to tell them that cost conversations are becoming more common in the exam room. But new data from Healthy Paws Pet Insurance and Money.com puts numbers behind what many teams are already զգing: the financial reality of pet ownership is shifting—and it’s shaping how clients make medical decisions.
Zoetis Expands Vetscan OptiCell™ Capabilities
Zoetis Inc., the world’s leading animal health company, announced today it is expanding the capabilities of Vetscan OptiCell™, its cartridge-based, artificial intelligence-powered hematology analyzer, marking the next step in the platform’s evolution. With this update, Vetscan OptiCell will become the first point-of-care hematology analyzer to offer cellular hemoglobin concentration mean (CHCM) – a parameter previously available only in reference labs.
Your Senior Dog Patient Might Have Dementia. Here Is How to Actually Diagnose It.
A landmark new working group just published the first standardized diagnostic guidelines for canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome. Here is what they say, what they mean for your practice, and why it matters more than you might think. Adapted from the CCDS Working Group guidelines, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2026.
What Nobody Tells You About Vet School Clinical Rotations
Third year clinical rotations are harder than everyone warned you — but not in the ways you expected. Here's the honest guide to surviving and growing through the hardest year of vet school.
Why cats stop eating? It’s not just fullness
In a series of controlled feeding experiments, cats were given food in six consecutive cycles, each consisting of a 10-minute feeding period followed by a 10-minute interval. The researchers found that when the same food was repeatedly presented, cats gradually reduced their food intake over successive cycles.
Elephant genomes reveal a past of continental connectivity and a future of increasing isolation
In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants, an international team of researchers shows that elephant history is defined by the ability to move across large distances and exchange genes throughout the African continent. But as the elephants’ living space is becoming increasingly patchy, the study documents the visible genetic consequences of isolation – and points to approaches that help to incorporate genomics into current and future elephant conservation.
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