Sep 1, 2011
By:
Rachael Whitcomb
College Station, Texas — The Department of Defense shelled out a $900,000 grant fo Texas A&M's veterinary college can study non-invasive treatments and therapies for spinal cord injuries in dogs.
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Sep 1, 2011
By:
Rachael Whitcomb
National Report — The federal debt reduction bill that made headlines this summer has a trickle-down effect on veterinarians, with the elimination of an in-school interest subsidy on graduate and professional student loans.
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Sep 1, 2011
By:
Rachael Whitcomb
Lawmakers are forcing groups who bring animals into Connecticut for adoption to have them examined by a veterinarian within 48 hours of importation.
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Sep 1, 2011
By:
Rachael Whitcomb
Lincoln. Neb. — Researchers at the University of Nebraska have been awarded a five-year, $2.35 millioin grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to find what makes some livestock "supershedders" of food-borne pathogens.
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Sep 1, 2011
By:
Rachael Whitcomb
St. Louis — Veterinary schools need to graduate veterinarians with real-world skills necessary to immediately contribute to practices or other areas of employment.
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Sep 1, 2011
By:
Rachael Whitcomb
New York City — The phones started ringing at Riverside Animal Hospital shortly after the New York Post published a story about a Bulldog that died from respiratory distress after being left unattended for days in a veterinary clinic's kennel.
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Sep 1, 2011
By:
Rachael Whitcomb
Blacksburg, Va. — Two new initiatives in public health have been launched at Virginia Tech with the formation of the Center for Public Health Practice and Research and a new department within the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine to support the center.
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Sep 1, 2011
By:
Rachael Whitcomb
St. Paul, Minn. — What resources will be needed and what therapies will work best in future animal-trauma centers?
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Sep 1, 2011
By:
Rachael Whitcomb
Fort Collins, Colo. — The United States Department of Agriculture's National Animal Health Monitoring System collected data from selected beef feedlots throughout August in an effort to identify animal-health management practices and antimicrobial use patterns.
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