Stephanie Davis

While clients offer untold excuses as to why they fail to comply with heartworm recommendations and senior screenings, the blame sometimes belongs to the one giving - or not giving - the recommendation.

African Horse Sickness, Hendra and Glanders are diseases Dr. Corrie Brown hopes to avoid in her lifetime.

Legislators are crafting a bill, "National Veterinary Medical Service Act, that if passed, would create a program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide loan repayment for a select group of veterinary students - those who agree to work in underserved areas. The legislature would define which areas would qualify.

Most veterinary practices don't measure client compliance. Instead, a whopping 83 percent of compliance estimates are based largely on feel and, consequently, overestimated.

As the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) prepares to roll out its canine vaccine guidelines advocating less frequent administration, veterinarians, like Dr. Mark Epstein, say reports such as this are long overdue.

Industry applauds the effort invested in the American Animal Hospital Association's (AAHA) canine vaccine guidelines, but critics question the execution and data to support the recommendations.

Washington-It's a loan repayment program with a catch.

Industry applauds the effort invested in the American Animal Hospital Association's (AAHA) canine vaccine guidelines, but critics question the execution and data to support the recommendations.

Client compliance is a thorny issue for many veterinary clinics. More often than not, once the client exits the clinic, any discharge instructions were left behind in the exam room. To compound matters, many veterinarians don't realize lack of compliance has reached such epidemic proportions, instead choosing to believe - without evidence - they service obedient pet owners.

Cleveland-About 30 cats and five dogs at the Cleveland Animal Protective League (APL) are dead following a devastating outbreak of parvovirus in early February.

Link Welborn, DVM, who grew up on a farm alongside horses, dogs, goats and peacocks to name a few, is seeking the acceptance of his veterinarian peers.

A neurological strain of EHV-1 strikes northwest Ohio city; cause eludes investigators

CDC has recipe for 'purer' horse vaccine; canines may gain from research

Equine practitioners may still take the backseat to food animal practitioners in the debate over antimicrobial resistance, but their input may help sustain prudent use of controversial drugs for all species.

Three words summarize the recommended frequency of canine vaccination - triennially, annually or never.

Private practitioners favor less anesthetic drugs, perform more outpatient procedures and rarely check blood pressure in anesthetized animals compared to their public university counterparts.

Columbus, Ohio-Veterinary medicine, like many healthcare specialties, lacks diversity, and reversing that trend is no small task, an Ohio veterinary leader reports.

Three words summarize the recommended frequency of canine vaccination - triennially, annually or never.

Private practitioners favor less anesthetic drugs, perform more outpatient procedures and rarely check blood pressure in anesthetized animals compared to their public university counterparts.

Fast-food service mogul Ray Kroc once said the quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Worthington, Ohio-What's in a new name?

Experts suggest pet DNA samples soon will supply veterinarians with diagnostic tools to predict which animals are the most likely candidates to carry myriad diseases.

The University of California, Davis, (UC Davis) Center for Equine Health has shelved blueprints for a new West Nile Virus (WNV) vaccine.

The American Veterinary Chiropractic Association (AVCA) will continue its attempt to regulate animal chiropractors despite another disapproval at the state level.

Intellectual curiosity, word-of-mouth keeps West Nile Virus on front burner of differential diagnosis list

North Platte, Neb.-Nebraska may lose its second diagnostic laboratory in one year and there's little hope of curbing it, according to one laboratory official.

Isolated incidents of West Nile Virus in canines pose miniscule threat to dogs at large, practitioners conclude

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) plans to go national with what began as a grassroots pet project of a rural-based equine practitioner in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Washington-The first round of trials to develop a West Nile vaccine for birds has shown a significant reduction in mortality in inoculated American crows, scientists report.

Provo, Utah-On a mission to probe dogs' brains for clues on how to enhance nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, Dr. Daniel Simmons and team may have accidentally unlocked the magic of acetaminophen.