Feline Medicine

Veterinarians were 100% successful at diagnosing severe heart disease in asymptomatic cats with a focused cardiac ultrasound, according to a recent Morris Animal Foundation-funded study.

With opioids in short supply for use in the veterinary industry, consider some alternative analgesics to treat pain in your veterinary patients.

According to emergency critical care specialist Dr. Justine Lee, this common condition offers both challenges and rewards for the veterinarian.

Pain management in feline patients is especially challenging due to difficulty in diagnosing their pain and the limited number of pain control medications available for cats. But newer hands-free tools can expand your veterinary toolbox for feline pain control.

In a session promising feline cancer CliffsNotes, Fetch dvm360 conference speaker and veterinary oncologist Sue Ettinger shared her take on diagnosing and treating this cancerous condition.

Some of the strong opinions about feline declaws are captured in these candid, anonymous thoughts from the Veterinary Confessionals Project.

Veterinary pain management expert Dr. Jennifer Johnson offers reasons to consider pulsed electromagnetic field therapy, especially in your painful feline patients.

The future of treating conditions like osteoarthritis has arrived, and these veterinarians say that you (yes, you) can see it through.

If Gov. Cuomo signs the bill passed by the state Assembly, New York will impose a civil penalty of $1,000 on people who perform onychectomies, partial or complete phalangectomies, or tendonectomies on cats without a therapeutic purpose.

Whether you work in general or emergency practice, you must feel comfortable performing certain emergency procedures. Here are the top five emergency procedures every veterinary practitioner who treats cats should know.

Veterinary clients have several beliefs about the benefits of keeping cats indoors, but are they really true?

Brush up on your feline facts, veterinary team members, while you disabuse your well-meaning but ill-informed cat clients of some feline fallacies. Dont miss the client handout at the end!

Veterinary team members! Know cat owners who regularly suffer 4 a.m. wakeup calls of cat paws to the face? (Or are you that cat owner?) Well, rest easy. Solutions are out there.

Shelter medicine instructor and veterinarian Dr. Kirk Miller provides suggestions for this delicate dilemma.

Maybe its just a feeling in your gut, but are you seeing more intestinal parasite cases in veterinary practice? Fetch dvm360 educator Dr. Richard Gerhold shares a few strange or disturbing happenings with these pet scourges.

or at least made it sick? A recent study suggests that cats of neurotic owners are more likely to have negative behavior styles and poorer health.

The ins and outs of treating urinary obstruction in your feline veterinary patients.

Use these five questions to determine whether certain oncology therapies might benefit your patients on their path toward better health.