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• Is it time for vets to take more interest in bees?

  

  In human medicine, honey is gaining credence as a valuable adjunct to the healing of skin wounds; and in urban back gardens more and more people are becoming amateur apiarists. So is it time for vets to pay more attention to the husbandry and diseases of…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 19 Oct 2009
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• RVC lecturer wins Times Higher Education innovative teacher award for ‘haptic cow'

  

  At a glittering ceremony held in the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London, on 15 October, and hosted by celebrity Clive Anderson, Sarah Baillie, of the RVC heard that she had won the Times Higher Education ‘Most Innovative Teacher' award for her inven…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 17 Oct 2009
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• Orthopaedics and engineering combined at North Carolina State University to help ‘bionic' dog

  

  Orthopaedic veterinary surgeon Dr Denis Marcellin-Little and engineering professor, Dr Ola Harryson, of North Carolina State University, have used the groundbreaking technology of osseointegration to fit amputee dogs and cats with permanent prosthetic lim…

  By: Peter Beaumont
  Published: 13 Oct 2009
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• Are you brave enough to find out what your clients really think of you?

  

  Very few veterinary hospitals survey their clients for their satisfaction with services offered. Is this because they really are not that interested, fear the results, or feel that such tools are "too commercial"?…

  By: Peter Beaumont
  Published: 07 Oct 2009
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• Cause of bleeding calf syndrome still not clear

  

  European veterinary scientists and agriculturalists are mystified as to the exact cause (or causes) of an acute clinical syndrome affecting calves under the age of one month.…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 06 Oct 2009
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• Newcastle University researchers receive Ig Nobel Award for work on contented cows

  

  Researchers Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson, from the agriculture, food and rural development department of Newcastle University, have discovered that cows given names are more prolific milk-producers than those without.…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 03 Oct 2009
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