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• International Dog Health Workshop 2019: Summary report published

  

  VetCompass researchers attended the International Partnership for Dogs (IPFD) International Dog Health Workshop (IDHW) in 2019. A report of the meeting has been published in Canine Medicine and Genetics, which included VetCompass researchers as …

   11 May 2020

• RVC Pandemic Puppies team publishes first paper

  

  The AWF-funded Pandemic Puppies survey aims to explore if and how the early lives of ‘Pandemic Puppies’ differed from those purchased before the pandemic. This research will identify vulnerabilities to the health, behaviour, and welfare of this …

   10 Sep 2021

• Tortoise Evening - winter is coming...

  

  An evening of talks from our exotics team about tortoise care especially on the lead up to hibernation and how to avoid problems

   09 Oct 2015

  As summer ends and the nights draw in we need to start thinking about how to prepare our tortoises …

• Weight gain more than doubles the risk of laminitis in horses and ponies

  

  Horses and ponies that gain weight are more than twice as likely to develop laminitis than if they lose or maintain their weight, new research has found.

   27 Mar 2019

• Get Interactive with new course about teaching with technology

  

  Practical, hands-on introduction to teaching with technology, exploring a range of tools and technology that support and engage students

   21 Apr 2017

• Practice-based research: Editorial in the Vet Record

  

  In a recent editorial in the Veterinary Record, VetCompass team member Dan O’Neill outlines the continuing progress of veterinary practice-based research and describes the main UK projects currently leading the way in this relatively new field: ‘ …

   15 May 2015

• New VetCompass publication: Survival in dogs with DMVD

  

  The latest peer-reviewed study from the VetCompass team has just been published in the journal Preventive Veterinary Medicine: Degenerative mitral valve disease: Survival of dogs attending primary-care practice in England. Mattin MJ, Boswood A, …

   19 Jun 2015

• Structure and Motion researchers get children Stepping Into Science at The Big Bang Fair

  

  Last week, researchers from Structure and Motion attended The Big Bang Fair at Birmingham NEC with their activity ‘Stepping Into Science’, designed by Dr Jim Usherwood and Dr Zoe Self. The Stepping Into Science project is part of Dr Usherwood’s Wellcome Trust funded research and combines public engagement with data collection.

   23 Mar 2016

• RVC and LSHTM working together for the Future of Global Health

  

  Why One Health and veterinary epidemiology are so important to the future of global health - a debate hosted by New Scientist, the RVC and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

   21 Sep 2016

  In partnership with New Scientist, the RVC and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine …

• One giant leap for VetCompass™

  

  New research, based on the VetCompass™ programme at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), uses machine learning to detect false-positive disease references in veterinary clinical notes. Clinicians often include references to diseases in clinical …

   08 May 2019