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Latest Veterinary News & Clinical Insights
Intradermal Vaccination Is Now on U.S. Sow Farms. Here's What a Year of Field Data Looks Like.
U.S. pork producers have always taken a protocol-by-protocol approach to herd health. What works for one operation doesn't automatically translate to the next, and the variables, housing, staffing, health status, welfare commitments, mean the best toolbox is a flexible one. In 2025, that toolbox got a new addition.
This Herd Monitoring Technology Can Flag Sick Cows 3 Days Before You'd Catch It Otherwise
In dairy practice and production, the gap between when a cow starts getting sick and when someone notices is where money, milk, and animal welfare quietly disappear. A cow that goes undetected for even a day or two loses milk production, misses breeding windows, accumulates treatment costs, and moves closer to early culling. In a thin-margin industry, that gap matters enormously.
High Schoolers Are Training to Fill the Rural Large Animal Vet Shortage. This Program Is Why There's Hope.
The large animal veterinarian shortage in the United States is not a new problem. But a program out of UC Davis is addressing it at the root, before students talk themselves out of it, before their parents tell them it's not realistic, and before the socioeconomic math of eight years of post-secondary education closes the door entirely.
UK’s VMD Approves Zoetis’ Lenivia: A New Long-Acting Monoclonal Antibody for Canine Osteoarthritis Pain
Zoetis has another tool in the osteoarthritis pain management conversation, and this one comes with a quarterly dosing schedule. The UK's Veterinary Medicines Directorate approved Lenivia (izenivetmab injection) on May 29, making it the first long-acting canine anti-nerve growth factor monoclonal antibody therapy cleared for once-every-three-months administration.
Ebola Is Back. Here's Why Veterinary Medicine Is Central to the Response.
The World Organisation for Animal Health has issued a statement expressing deep concern over the 17th Ebola Virus Disease outbreak, this time caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, now active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with potential spread into neighboring Uganda. And while public health agencies are leading the human response, WOAH's statement makes something clear that the veterinary community already knows: this is not just a human health problem.
Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles: What a New Study Says About Canine Wound Healing
A new peer-reviewed study tested PRP and zinc oxide nanoparticles on canine skin wounds. Here's what the results mean for veterinary wound care in practice.
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