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• Leading global health scientists call for new strategy to tackle the diseases of tomorrow

  

  The heads of the RVC and LSHTM urge the Government to tackle threats to global health by including One Health policy on the agenda

   04 Oct 2016

  Update: watch the video of the joint lecture and discussion

  The heads of two of the country’ …

• The RVC’s Professor Joanne Webster awarded Royal Society medal

  

  Joanne Webster FMedSci, Professor of Parasitic Diseases at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), has been awarded a Royal Society Medal, The Leeuwenhoek Medal and Lecture, which recognises and celebrates outstanding contributions to science, for her ‘ …

   30 Aug 2023

  Joanne Webster FMedSci, Professor of Parasitic Diseases at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), has …

• New ARUK grant awarded

  

  A new grant has been awarded to Dr Jay Dudhia to investigate "the application of Raman arthrospectroscopy for intra-operative mapping of early articular cartilage degeneration" Arthritic conditions that affect joints such as the knee and hip …

   02 Jul 2015

  A new grant has been awarded to Dr Jay Dudhia to investigate "the application of Raman …

• New concepts in research suggest that non-human animals also suffer boredom

  

  Dr Charlotte Burn, Senior Lecturer in Animal Welfare and Behaviour Science at the Royal Veterinary College, has recently published work suggesting that non-human animals also suffer with boredom.

   15 Aug 2017

  Boredom when it is severe and prolonged is torment to humans and can cause dangerous or criminal …

• RVC research team is one step closer to objective detection of horses with ataxia

  

  Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College have developed a method of objective evaluation that can help differentiate horses with ataxia, a neurological disorder resulting in an uncoordinated or drunken gait, from those with other mobility issues.

   04 Oct 2017

• New paper on canine brachycephaly and upper respiratory disease!

  

  A new VetCompass paper published this week in Canine Genetics and Epidemiology (CGE) explores upper respiratory tract disease and brachycephalic associations in dogs: Epidemiological associations between brachycephaly and upper respiratory tract …

   15 Jul 2015

• Welfare problems of flat-faced dogs - can we ever solve them?

  

  APDAWG Meeting on Feb 23 2021 The popularity of brachycephalic (flat-faced) dogs is at an all-time high. These breeds are the darlings of the popular press, social media & advertisers. The public have fallen in love with these breeds & are choosing …

   02 Mar 2021

• Use of zebrafish to increase our understanding of diseases

  One major use of zebrafish is to increase our understanding of diseases and provide disease models for therapeutic discovery. We focus on rare inherited diseases, which together affect about one in every 10 people, even though each disease has an …

• New study examines medial canthoplasty surgical management of brachycephalic ocular syndrome in dogs

  

  A recent research study has examined a type of surgical management used to address brachycephalic ocular syndrome (BOS), a condition prevalent in popular flat-faced (brachycephalic) dog breeds. Due to their 'bulging eyes', a medial canthoplasty (MC) …

   27 Jun 2023

• John Fishwick becomes BVA President

  

  Royal Veterinary College (RVC) Senior Lecturer in Dairy Herd Medicine, John Fishwick, has become President of the British Veterinary Association (BVA)

   21 Sep 2017

  Royal Veterinary College (RVC) Senior Lecturer in Dairy Herd Medicine, John Fishwick, has become …