Cannabis & Tech Today

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After working as a veterinarian for the military, Dr. Casara Andre turned her focus to holistic medicine, with the hopes of achieving a more balanced approach to wellness than that provided by pharmaceuticals. This idea lead her to found Veterinary C

Farmer's Weekly

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The compulsory community service (CCS) year that all new veterinarians are required to complete after graduating is yielding positive results for government, communities, and even those new vets wanting to go into private practice. This was the view

Sunday Independent

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SOUTH Africa’s vets want to be included in the government’s national vaccine roll-out plan, citing professional safety concerns. The South African Veterinarian Association, together with the Black Veterinary Forum, issued a request to the departments

Horse & Hound

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A WEBSITE giving owners and vets access to up-to-date information on strangles cases has been described as a “huge step forward” by the Animal Health Trust (AHT). The AHT created the website as part of its surveillance of strangles project, launched

Wildlife Ranching Magazine

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This article by Prof. Darrel Abernathy, the former Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, has provided a good theoretical basis for how we should approach the various unity challenges facing our industry. Two topical examples are: Cattle farme

Horse & Hound

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THE World Veterinary Association (WVA) and Brooke are collaborating to create the first-ever global list of essential veterinary medicines for livestock. It will contain basic medicines that should be available in every country, to every vet. A joint

Horse & Hound

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THE welfare of horses suffering from skin disease could be compromised as owners turn to social media and “Dr Google” instead of their vets. Equine skin disease is common, but veterinary dermatology specialist Sue Paterson is concerned some serious i

Equus

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Doug Butler, PhD, CJF, FWCF, has a doctorate in veterinary anatomy and equine nutrition and more than 57 years of experience as a practicing farrier. He is a Certified Journeyman Farrier and a Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Farriers. Founder and

NPR

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Stanford University's Dr. Seema Yasmin debunks some of the top myths spreading about coronavirus.

Your Horse

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Vets have ensured consistent care of our horses, but at what cost to their own health and wellbeing? Six months on from the first lockdown, a British Veterinary Association (BVA) survey gauged how vets felt about aspects of their professional life af

Horse & Hound

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OWNERS do not now have to seek veterinary approval to have musculoskeletal treatment for horses, in a “win-win” situation. The work of musculoskeletal therapists (MSKs), such as osteopaths, physios and chiropractors, is underpinned by an exemption or

Pets Magazine

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The Covid-19 pandemic shifted many veterinary clinics from routine to emergency-only appointments – leaving pet owners to address minor injuries and basic grooming issues normally resolved by professionals. Veronica Jones, DVM, an emergency medicine

Horse & Hound

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DELAYED euthanasia and lack of biosecurity remain the biggest welfare concerns affecting UK horses, according to experts. Researchers from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies asked vets, charities including World Horse Welfare and the Briti

Horse & Hound

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VETERINARY practice Ballinger Equine was crowned a winner at the Rural Business Awards. The Hertfordshire practice was against competition from all sectors to be judged the best rural start-up business, at the awards on 27 February. “National recogni

People Magazine South Africa

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APPROXIMATELY 40km east of Joburg, on a large dusty field next to Daveyton, you’ll see a cluster of gazebos, vets, volunteers, a mobile clinic, residents and their beloved animals. This is Thanda Inja’s pop-up clinic (Love Dog), an outreach initiativ

Horse & Hound

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DR RACHEL MURRAY is a veterinary specialist with particular expertise in advanced diagnostic imaging, poor performance and rehabilitation of sport horses. Rachel is based at Rossdales Equine Hospital and Diagnostic Centre in Newmarket, working in a t

Your Horse

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SINCE CORONAVIRUS CHANGED the way the world works, we’ve all had to get used to video calls via conferencing technology like Teams and Zoom, but who knew that vets were jumping on the same kind of technological bandwagon! Telemedicine is the name giv

The Team Roping Journal

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At 44, Britt Conklin, DVM, has earned professional acclaim throughout the equine, farrier and veterinary communities and possesses a rather impressive curriculum vitae. Most recently, though, his career has come full circle as he returns to his under

Horse & Hound

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FRAN JAMES MRCVS is a surgeon at Newmarket Equine Hospital. This purpose-built referral hospital is one of the largest in Europe, treating a wide range of horses from throughout the UK. Fran is a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) specialist

Equus

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Anthony Blikslager, DVM, PhD, DACVS, is a professor at North Carolina State University, where he received his doctorate in gastroenterology. He earned his doctor of veterinary medicine from the Virginia–Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicin

Horses and People

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Georgina is an art historian who has published extensively on the domestic interior. Her books include Domestic Interiors: Representing Home from the Victorians to the Moderns, (2013) and Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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1 Centor Score. Tots up your symptoms against a checklist to assess whether you need antibiotics. 2 Blood count. Helps to tell whether your symptoms are caused by bacteria or a virus. 3 Throat swab. A long cotton-wool bud is used to take samples from

Equus

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D. Phillip Sponenberg, DVM, PhD, is a professor of pathology and genetics at Virginia–Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. He is the author of Equine Color Genetics, and his areas of research include genetics of domesticated animals, coa

Horse & Hound

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VETS are among the UK’s most trusted professions, research has indicated. A survey commissioned by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) asked 2,000 adults about satisfaction with the service animals received and trust. Results showed 94% o

Farmer's Weekly

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In a recent presentation to Parliament’s Portfolio Committee for Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform, the Auditor-General reported that the department of agriculture and related entities had R46,3 million in fruitless and wasteful expendit

Equus

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Heidi Banse, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, is an assistant professor of equine medicine at Louisiana State University. She earned her Bachelor of Science and veterinary degrees at Washington State University and her doctorate at Oklahoma State University. A Dipl

Farmer's Weekly

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Ginette Bentley is all too familiar with the challenges that small-scale livestock farmers face when trying to manage the health of their animals. She spent 15 years as an animal health technician with the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Agriculture and

Horse & Hound

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DR CHARLES COOKE is a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons advanced practitioner in equine stud medicine and a director at Equine Reproductive Services (UK), a North Yorkshire-based first-opinion and referral practice offering specialist advice to ve

Horse & Hound

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THE equestrian world is in urgent need of an infectious disease monitoring programme following the news of the Animal Health Trust’s (AHT) impending closure. The AHT announced its closure on Friday (3 July) after uncertainty surrounding its finances,

Farmer's Weekly

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• KwaZulu-Natal’s tens of thousands of smallholder livestock owners depend largely on government for their animal health management needs. • In emergencies, where no state veterinarians are available, government animal health technicians often have