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• PDSA supports the VetCompass project

  

  We are delighted to announce participation by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) into VetCompass from November 2014. VetCompass team member Dan O’Neill speaks for us all in welcoming PDSA onboard: ‘The involvement of PDSA will be hugely …

   30 Nov 2014

• Presentation of RVC work at the Nairobi FAO regional subgroup on livestock

  Dr Paula Dominguez-Salas was invited to  present the preliminary results of the RVC/ILRI/LSHTM Seed project on the association of livestock value chains and maternal and child nutrition in low-income households of Nairobi, and also to present the …

   27 Nov 2014

  Dr Paula Dominguez-Salas was invited to  present the preliminary results of the RVC/ILRI/LSHTM Seed …

• Successful FAO Worskshop in livestock and human nutrition held in Dakar (Senegal)

  RVC researchers, Pablo Alarcon and Paula Dominguez-Salas, organised and facilitated a regional training workshop for the Sahel in Dakar (Senegal), entitled "Livestock, livelihoods and human nutrition",  between November 5 and 7, 2014. This workshop …

   27 Nov 2014

  RVC researchers, Pablo Alarcon and Paula Dominguez-Salas, organised and facilitated a regional …

• Urban Zoonosis Meeting

  RVC researchers, Dr Barbara Haesler, Dr Paula Domínguez-Salas, Dr Pablo Alarcon, Ms Maud Carron and Professor Jonathan Rushton, attended the third annual meeting of the Urban Zoonosis Project that was held on the 11-12 of November at the London …

   27 Nov 2014

  RVC researchers, Dr Barbara Haesler, Dr Paula Domínguez-Salas, Dr Pablo Alarcon, Ms Maud Carron and …

• New study shows resistance to most clinically relevant antimicrobials is increasing in major canine skin pathogen

  Researchers from the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals studying Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, the predominant dog skin pathogen, showed for the first time that resistance is increasing to the most clinically relevant antimicrobials.Results from a …

   24 Nov 2014

  Researchers from the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals studying Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, …

• Clinical Connections

  The Autumn issue of Clinical Connections provides an insight into the range of clinical services available from the RVC, together with news items and research highlights

   21 Nov 2014

• RVC experts at Great British Bioscience Festival

  

  A team from the Royal Veterinary College went to east London over the weekend to bring the best of British bioscience to the public for three days of bioscience fun. The Great British Bioscience Festival is the culmination of a year-long tour, …

   13 Nov 2014

• RVC researchers at forefront of new zoonotic funding programme

  

  Researchers from the RVC are leading projects to tackle brucellosis in cattle in West and Central Africa, study influenza in poultry faming in Bangladesh and investigate the epidemiology and evolution of novel zoonotic hybrid schistosomiasis in Senegal and Niger

   14 Nov 2014

  The RVC has been awarded more than £5 million as part of a multimillion pound research programme to …

• Researchers from Royal Veterinary College (RVC) have found that the effectiveness of testing anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) for canine epilepsy is far below the expected standard.  

  The RVC’s canine epilepsy clinic has carried out the first ever systematic review on the efficacy of all AEDs in canine epilepsy. The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of each individual AED by analysing all available data that has …

   27 Oct 2014

  The RVC’s canine epilepsy clinic has carried out the first ever systematic review on the efficacy …

• Highlights of the 1st International Evidence Based Veterinary Medicine Conference

  

  Evidence based veterinary medicine (EBVM)  in the UK took a giant step forward with the First International EBVM Network Conference on October 23-24, 2014. The meeting was organised by RCVS Knowledge and was a huge success, with 250 delegates being …

   11 Nov 2014