Food-animal news
Fight microscopic monsters—Toxoplasma and Neospora species
VETERINARY MEDICINE
These minuscule beasties can wreak havoc across animal species (and your veterinary clients, too). Here are tips to stop 'em.
Identifying a better equine ID method
DVM360 MAGAZINE
Veterinarians and equine experts sound off on ideas for a better way to protect American horses from theft and disease outbreaks. (Hint: It's microchips.)
Familiar veterinary bills introduced in Congress
DVM360 MAGAZINE
One seeks to end a tax on awards to rural practitioners, the other would require veterinarians to hand over a written prescription for every medication.
Veterinarian Sonny Perdue sworn in as U.S. secretary of agriculture
DVM360 MAGAZINE
Former Georgia governor, UGA alumnus vows to be a good steward of U.S. land, protect interests of farmers and ranchers.
The fate of the rural veterinary practitioner
DVM360 MAGAZINE
If this way of life dies out, one doc says it will be ''a crying shame.''
Dairy
Moo-ving pain research in heifers
VETTED
Veterinary researchers are examining whether a decrease in eye temperature may give visual clues that point to stress to a cow's nervous system.
Equine show location gallops to new home
DVM360 MAGAZINE
The American Royal, begun as the National Hereford Show in 1899, will hop state lines for a bigger, better facility for its horse and livestock shows, rodeos and agriculture education center.
Interactive feature: Top 5 trees poisonous to large animals
Pet Poison Helpline
Do you know the clinical signs of these tree-related toxicoses and how to help affected patients?
Internet: Can goats be the new dogs, please??
VETTED
New research out of the UK highlights goats' cognitive abilities and the internet collectively freaks out at the thought of goats becoming man's brand new bestie.
No link found between antibiotic use in farm animals and resistance in people
DVM360 MAGAZINE
Systematic review of campylobacteriosis studies leads to more questions than answers.
Swine
Equine show location gallops to new home
DVM360 MAGAZINE
The American Royal, begun as the National Hereford Show in 1899, will hop state lines for a bigger, better facility for its horse and livestock shows, rodeos and agriculture education center.
No link found between antibiotic use in farm animals and resistance in people
DVM360 MAGAZINE
Systematic review of campylobacteriosis studies leads to more questions than answers.
FDA seeks to rescind swine drug approval due to human cancer concerns
DVM360 MAGAZINE
Cancer risk may be associated with long-term consumption of pork products containing residue of the antibacterial and growth promoter carbadox.
USDA: Porcine virus might have entered country in giant tote bags
DVM360 MAGAZINE
Testing supports the hypothesis, but definitive proof has yet to confirm path of entry.
K-State veterinary researchers create new method of avian influenza vaccine development
DVM360 MAGAZINE
Testing shows method may extend beyond poultry to pigs, cattle and sheep.