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• MSD & Sanofi-aventis to operate merged Merial & Intervet/Schering-Plough. But is bigger better?

  

  So, is the announcement this week that Merial is to be combined with Intervet/Schering-Plough to create one of the world's largest veterinary pharmaceuticals firms a good thing for practising veterinarians, or not?…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 13 Mar 2010
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• Mother's junk food diet linked to liver disease in offspring

  

  A study carried out at the RVC, London suggests that pregnancy and lactation are not the time to overindulge on fatty, salty and sugary foods as this may cause long-term liver damage to the offspring.…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 07 Mar 2010
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• CVS set to acquire Veterinary Enterprises

  

  'Dog eat dog' is a well-worn saying in business circles. That cliché has a particular bark to it with the news that CVS (UK) Limited is in the process of acquiring Veterinary Enterprises.…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 23 Feb 2010
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• Physician, heal (it) thyself!

  

  US veterinarian, Patty Khuli, who writes a regular column in USA TODAY, has quite an agenda on the subject of human doctors treating their own pets and her piece, headlined ‘Vets pet peeve: When human physicians diagnose animals', is worth a read!…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 30 Jan 2010
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• OCD gene discovered in dogs?

  

  My attention has been drawn to an article in the New York Times which describes how researchers claim to have identified a gene which is shared by individual Doberman pinschers that exhibit the stereotypical behaviour of sucking their flanks.…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 20 Jan 2010
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• CCL model turns swords into ploughshares

  

  Sometimes a subject pops up in one of the specialist discussion groups that merits wider circulation and discussion. I commend for your consideration a piece spotted by LinkedIn member, Jason Canapp, on the subject of ‘Turning Conflict into Conversation'.…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 10 Jan 2010
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