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Honda's new dog-friendly design for the Element features a pet bed, pet restraints, a built-in spill-resistant water dish, and more.

A New York Times editor receiving treatment for cancer recounts how he has found strength and comraderie with his aging dog.

By using the results of inexpensive ELISA tests to cull strongly positive cows and treat mildly positive cows, researchers have controlled Johne's disease outbreaks in nine herds over the past six years.

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An Australian dog is back home with her owners after falling off a boat in choppy waters, swimming five miles to a nearly uninhabited island, and surviving four months by hunting goats.

In North America and Western Europe rabies is no longer much of a threat to people because of vast and effective rabies vaccination protocols in pet dogs.

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As part of DVM's State of the Profession 2009, find out why cats continue to be seen less frequently in veterinary offices compared with dogs, in spite of the fact that cats outnumber dogs as pets.

According to the National Research Council, the term "senior" refers to an animal's functionality, such as decreased activity, weight gain, and other age-related physical and behavioral changes.

Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine (TCVM) is a complete system of medicine to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), also known as Traditional Oriental Medicine (TOM) has been utilized over several thousands of years in people and animals.

Liver disease is common in the cat and the finding of icterus is a frequently a clinical clue that the cause is primary liver disease.

The detection of abnormal liver biochemical tests in the asymptomatic as well as the symptomatic patient is a common finding on the routine blood screen.

Vaccination is an important tool in veterinary medicine, preventing disease and reducing virus circulation for many important viral pathogens.

Several hepatobiliary disorders have recently come under increased awareness in dogs.

Acupuncture is the insertion of needles into specific points on the body (acupoints) to cause a desired healing effect.

The discussion below is directed at therapy for chronic hepatitis but much of what is presented can also be extrapolated to other types of liver disease in both the dog and cat.

Chronic renal insufficiency involves the permanent damage to any part of the nephron.

Chronic hepatitis is an etiologic diverse and morphologically variable condition associated by mixed inflammatory cell infiltrates.

Chronic kidney disease and failure is invariably progressive; however, stable disease and a reasonable quality of life can be obtained for some time in most cats.

The so-called "reactive hepatopathies" which occur secondary to non-hepatic disease can result in increased serum biochemical hepatic tests and histomorphologic abnormalities.

Qi is difficult to translate into Western language. Fundamentally, Qi is what gives life to the universe.

Hepatic lipidosis accounts for approximately 50% of feline liver disease.

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is viewed by many veterinarians as an "us against them" proposition.

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), a component of the National Institutes of Health, defines CAM as "a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine."

This article presents new drugs and procedures that have been very helpful in leading to recovery, from lasers, to electromagnetic resonance, to hyperbaric oxygen chambers that do not cost an arm and a leg.

Generally, coping with disorders in small animal reproduction, is a rewarding subspecialty in veterinary medicine.