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  Trial Offers Hope to Overweight Diabetic Cats

  Many owners find their pets a welcome source of comfort and support during the current pandemic. Lockdowns, social distancing, and home-working mean pets have enjoyed increased company and attention from their doting owners. While this increased …
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  Corneal Cross-Linking Progress

  Maria-Christine Fischer, Lecturer in Ophthalmology, and Vim Kumaratunga, former Ophthalmology Resident      Corneal cross-linking (CXL) is a highly attractive treatment for infectious keratitis and melting (malacia). The RVC’s Ophthalmology Service …
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  A Promising New Therapy for Dogs with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

  RVC experts are trialling a promising new treatment for dogs with spinal cord injury
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  Getting the Best out of Biopsies at the RVC

  The RVC anatomic pathology team provides professional expertise in post mortem examinations, histopathology and immunohistochemistry for domestic species. Farmed livestock are also examined, in a partnership arrangement with the Animal Plant and Health Agency.
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  RVC’s Epilepsy Journey

  Rowena Packer, Lecturer in Companion Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science and BBSRC Research Fellow, reflects on the contributions of RVC research to the care of pets with epilepsy, including several important milestones, and looks to the future. …
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  Farm Animal Post Mortems

  At the RVC, we have a long-established Farm Animal Pathology and Diagnostics (FAPD) Service and represent an expert post mortem examination provider for the government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
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  Pioneering Pet Diabetes App

  The Royal Veterinary College has created a revolutionary Pet Diabetes App, which brings veterinary diabetes management into the 21st century to support patients, vets and research.
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  Being an RVC Production Animal Resident

  Steph Prior, one of the RVC’s Senior Clinical Training Scholars (Residents), is based at Torch Vets, which spans Devon and Cornwall. The residencies are practice-based as much as possible to offer maximum exposure to a wide range of cases in areas …
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  What Is Wrong with my Backyard Chickens?

  Sonja Jeckel, Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Disease Diagnostics Keeping backyard chickens is popular in the UK and numbers are presumed to have consistently increased over the last 20 years. However, precise numbers are unknown as only flocks with …
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  Blood Donor Cat Saved by Own Donation

  Karen Humm, Associate Professor in Transfusion Medicine and Emergency and Critical Care, Charlotte Russo, Head Transfusion Medicine RVN      A cat, whose donations had previously helped numerous RVC patients, helped to save his own life when he was …