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• Fort Dodge Index confirms continued slide in UK vet practice performance. Discuss.

  

  The Fort Dodge Index (FDI) analyses and benchmarks the performance of practices across the UK. Figures for the first half of 2009 confirm the trend - seen for some time - of static or steadily declining performance in key areas. Does this reflect your exp…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 13 Aug 2009
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• Women prefer pets to sex and Banfield signals end of the road for pet mutilations

  

  A survey of 12,000 women in 21 countries found that pets was by far the most common answer to a question asking what made them extremely happy. And Banfield has banned tail docking, ear cropping and debarking.…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 12 Aug 2009
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• Cambridge vet school scientists ask key questions about evolution of viruses and animal-to-human transmission

  

  Professor Jonathan Heeney and his team of scientists in the University of Cambridge's Department of Veterinary Medicine are studying viruses as pathogens in host populations, endeavouring to understand the implications of our shared evolutionary history.…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 11 Aug 2009
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• European experts to work on improving pet cancer diagnosis and treatment with support from Pfizer

  

  The Animal Cancer European Expert group has been set up to ‘build and develop best practices in the management of pet cancer'.…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 10 Aug 2009
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• Experts re-evaluate pain management in canine osteoarthritis

  

  In the past, pain and joint disease have been considered as separate areas of research, with pain perceived simply as a consequence of disease. Now it is increasingly apparent that the relationship is far more complex and that pain may be a driver of dise…

  By: David Watson
  Published: 07 Aug 2009
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• Advances on the US pet osteoarthritis scene

  

  US researchers are growing cartilage that can be moulded into permanent joint replacements for dogs; and the Morris Animal Foundation has developed a website aimed at educating pet owners on the early detection and treatment of arthritis in their pets.…

  By: Peter Beaumont
  Published: 06 Aug 2009
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