A Nestlé Purina PetCare grant of nearly $1 million over 5 years will support the School of Veterinary Medicine's G.V. Ling Urinary Stone Analysis Laboratory. It will allow companion animal veterinarians to provide free urinary stone analysis results to their patients.
What should a business owner do when a favorite employee gets cancer? What if that employee is a cat? When Horatio, “Assistant Manager Cat” of Seventh Son Brewing Co. in Columbus, Ohio—loved by guests and staff alike—was diagnosed with fibrosarcoma, the brewery took an unconventional approach to help both Horatio and the species. Seventh Son opened a GoFundMe for which 50 percent of the proceeds go to Horatio’s treatment, and the other 50 percent to the UC Davis Feline Cancer Research Fund and an Ohio organization dedicated to saving pets' lives through funding veterinary care.
Dr. Stephen McSorley, professor in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, was honored with the 2023 Zoetis Award for Research Excellence
Inaugural Reaching Across the Causeway awards will fund collaborative pilot studies between researchers at the UC Davis Schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine to address complex health issues.
Eighteen million years ago, a genetic duplication event coincided with the evolutionary split between horses and their four-toed, forest-browsing ancestors.
Congratulations to Veterinary Scientist Training Program (VSTP) students Jenn Cossaboon, Chase Garcia, Erin Hisey, and Aryana Razmara for receiving prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) F30/F31 awards.
Veterinary medicine continues to find commonalities among conditions that affect animals and humans. This week, Dr. Monica Aleman presented an overview at the Platinum Summit in San Antonio of Juvenile Idiopathic Epilepsy (JIE) in Egyptian Arabian foals—an epileptic syndrome similar to one found in infants.
Two house officer veterinarians with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) were recently named the inaugural recipients of the Outstanding American Journal of Veterinary Research (AJVR) Resident Manuscript Awards.
The lowering of dietary recommendations for the consumption of free or added sugar from 25% to 10% of daily calories has been criticized as being based on low-quality scientific evidence, ill-informed opinions and over-extrapolation of results from studies on sugar-sweetened beverages. This Comment by Dr. Kimber Stanhope rebuts these criticisms.
