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• UK dogs and their fatty lumps: finally the risks explained

  

  Springer Spaniels, Dobermann Pinscher, Weimaraners and Labrador Retrievers: some of our most popular dog breeds in the UK are also the most susceptible to lipomas (also known as fatty masses or fatty lumps), according to the Royal Veterinary College …

   10 Oct 2018

• Animal Welfare Conference

  

  Experts at an event at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) discussed how selective breeding for ‘desirable’ traits can ultimately push an animal’s biology to the point where it breaks down, due to increased susceptibility to disease.

   02 Aug 2016

  Experts at an event at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) discussed how selective breeding for ‘ …

• RVC’s Professor Stuart Reid elected to the National Academy of Medicine of the USA

  

  The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced that Royal Veterinary College Principal, Professor Stuart Reid CBE FRSE FRCVS, has been elected as an international member

   21 Oct 2019

• First ever systematic review and meta-analysis of adverse effect of antiepileptic drugs in canine epilepsy

  

  Researchers found that much of the evidence for the medical treatment of canine epilepsy was based on subpar reporting of adverse effect and in studies that were below the expected standard.

   24 May 2016

  How safe are antiepieleptic drugs? RVC research sheds light on epilepsy treatments.

  Researchers …

• RVC orthopaedic specialist Professor Richard Meeson wins prestigious BSAVA award

  

  The Royal Veterinary College’s (RVC) Prof Richard Meeson, Head of Small Animal Orthopaedic Surgery and Professor of Orthopaedics, has been announced as a winner of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) awards. In a ceremony that …

   25 Mar 2025

  The Royal Veterinary College’s (RVC) Prof Richard Meeson, Head of Small Animal Orthopaedic Surgery …

• Jordan University for Science and Technology collaborates with RVC and international partners to tackle the spread of disease in the Middle East

  

  For the past two years, the Royal Veterinary College has participated in an international project to improve public health in the Middle East and tackle potential biothreats. This has seen the UK’s leading veterinary school, RVC, twinned with the Jordan University for Science and Technology in Irbid, Jordan, to enhance the delivery of veterinary education and foster collaboration between European and Middle Eastern scientific communities.

   22 Apr 2018

• Four-thousand farms in Wales have been screened in bovine viral diarrhoea project

  

  A collaborative programme involving the RVC has been testing farms for the past six months in an effort to eradicate BVD. Of those tested, 27% have evidence of the BVD infection and some 50 have started persistent infected (PI) animal hunts on their farms.

   29 Mar 2018

• Innovative animal tracking system developed by the RVC wins ERC Proof of Concept Grant

  

  This dynamically augmented navigation system (DYANS) system was developed to track fast-moving animals in the wild in order to better understand their locomotion, hunting and ranging behaviour

   04 May 2020

• New research by the RVC could hold the key to treatments for tendon disease and other musculoskeletal disorders

  

  Examining protein turnover rates in the tendons of rats, has found that tendons are a dynamic tissue with varying turnover rates of proteins

   12 May 2020

  A new study, by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), which examined protein turnover rates in the …

• RVC academic joins cross-institutional team in surveillance of new avian flu outbreak

  

  A team of academics have joined together from across the UK to monitor outbreaks of high-pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild birds and poultry in Europe and Central Asia and assess the mitigation measures required to limit the spread.

   25 Nov 2020

  A team of academics, including a Professor in One Health Evolutionary Biology at the Royal …