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• NEW VACCINATION AVAILABLE

  

  Is your rabbit up to date with vaccines? Recently, a new strain of Rabbit Viral Haemorrhagic Disease (RVHD) has been found in the UK, which appears resistant to standard vaccination. A new vaccine has been developed to protect against this strain and we are now offering this vaccine to combat the disease.

   13 Jul 2016

  Is your rabbit up to date with vaccines?

  Recently, a new strain of Rabbit Viral Haemorrhagic …

• Birds in flight share lessons for future aircraft designs

  

  There is much still to learn from birds in flight when developing small and more efficient aircraft, a team of scientists at the RVC has concluded

   10 Feb 2020

• Vets working with Medics to find solutions for the COVID-19 crisis

  

  Members of the One Health Poultry Hub, including two experts from the RVC, are helping to guide the world's recovery from this latest zoonotic disease crisis.

   22 Mar 2020

  The latest blog post from Fiona Tomley, The Director of the One Health Poultry Hub explains how …

• Excessive exercise responsible for three-quarters of heatstroke cases in dogs, study shows

  

  The most common cause of potentially-fatal heatstroke in dogs is being exercised by their owners, the largest study of its kind has found. A team at Nottingham Trent University and the Royal Veterinary College found that exertion or exercise – …

   17 Aug 2020

• RVC Professor works with Sir David Attenborough to help uncover the biggest dinosaur in history

  

  Last night the BBC aired a docummentary called 'Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur' in which Sir David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a giant dinosaur find in Argentina. In the film, Professor Hutchinson from the RVC Structure & Motion …

   25 Jan 2016

• Microchipping - Law Changes as of 6th April 2016

  From the 6th of April 2016, all dogs must be micro-chipped and registered to an approved database by the time they are 8 weeks old

   01 Jul 2015

  From Wednesday 6th April 2016 the law is changing and all dogs must have a microchip which is …

• Are you kidding me?

  

  Researchers from the RVC, including Professor John Hutchinson, have recently supported artist-designer Thomas Thwaites in his attempt to recreate life as a goat.  Thomas Thwaites testing the design of the forelimb prosthetic Thwaites has been …

   16 Sep 2015

• Putting racehorse respiratory disease research back on track

  A new Horserace Betting Levy Board  grant has been awarded to the Royal Veterinary College.  The grant entitled "Putting racehorse respiratory disease research back on track" has been awarded to Dr Jackie Cardwell, Dr Carrie Roder, Dr Martin Whiting  …

   23 Feb 2016

  A new Horserace Betting Levy Board  grant has been awarded to the Royal Veterinary College.  The …

• VetCompass at the 2017 UFAW International Symposium

  

  Dr. Jen Summers was fortunate to represent VetCompass at the recent annual meeting of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW), which asked “Measuring animal welfare and applying scientific advances - Why is it still so difficult?”.   …

   12 Jul 2017

• Improved diagnosis of infectious causes of airway disease in racehorses

  Congratulations to Dr Simon Priestnall who has been awarded a grant by the Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB) for the project "Improved diagnosis of infectious causes of airway disease in racehorses" Inflammatory airway disease (IAD), part of the …

   27 Jul 2018

  Congratulations to Dr Simon Priestnall who has been awarded a grant by the Horserace Betting Levy …