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• New research from the RVC highlights most common disorders in UK pet guinea pigs

  

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has identified the most common conditions in pet guinea pigs in the UK are overgrown nails, ringworm and eye ulcers. Several of these common conditions are linked to sedentary lives in captivity …

   27 Mar 2024

• The RVC helps shape international agreement on what constitutes naturally healthy body shapes for dogs

  

  The International Collaborative on Extreme Conformations in Dogs (ICECDogs) has published a position paper, heavily informed by research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), that helps owners to recognise good innate health in dogs. The …

   09 Apr 2024

  The International Collaborative on Extreme Conformations in Dogs (ICECDogs) has published a …

• Research from the RVC provides recommendations to improve UK canine health and welfare research

  

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has identified a set of key recommendations to further improve canine health and welfare research in the UK. This includes the need for more efficient grant applications, stronger collaboration …

   21 Feb 2025

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has identified a set of key recommendations to …

• New RVC VetCompass research offers insights into clinical management and welfare impacts of rabbit dental disease

  

  A team of researchers within the VetCompass Programme at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) studying dental disease in rabbits under primary veterinary care have identified common clinical signs for rabbits experiencing dental disease and assessed …

   03 Apr 2025

• New Petplan award to Dr David Connolly, Professor Brian Catchpole, Dr Jay Dudhia (RVC) and Hannah Hodgkiss-Geere (Liverpool Vet School)

  

  Dr David Connolly, Professor Brian Catchpole, Dr Jay Dudhia  (RVC) and Hannah Hodgkiss-Geere (Liverpool Vet School) has been awarded a grant by Petplan Charitable Trust for a project called: "Avoid rejection to fix a broken heart: assessing the …

   06 Jan 2016

  Dr David Connolly, Professor Brian Catchpole, Dr Jay Dudhia  (RVC) and Hannah Hodgkiss-Geere ( …

• New technologies can more effectively track freshwater snails and prevent tropical disease schistosomiasis

  

  Google Earth, satellite images and drone photos can help identify which remote communities are most at risk of contracting one of the world’s worst tropical diseases – schistosomiasi

   28 Oct 2019

  Google Earth, satellite images and drone photos can help identify which remote communities are most …

• Flying high: Professor at the Royal Veterinary College elected as Fellow of prestigious Royal Society

  

  Professor Alan Wilson FRS of the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, for his outstanding contributions to science.

   29 Apr 2020

• RVC research finds potential in ground-breaking new dietary treatment for canine epilepsy

  

  Research shows that small changes to the diets of dogs with hard-to-treat epilepsy has the potential to reduce the number of seizures and improve the quality of life for affected dogs and their owners.

   06 May 2020

  Research conducted by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), funded by The American Kennel Club Canine …

• Epidemiology - VetCompass

  The currently high proportion of dogs that are brachycephalic suggests that issues around the health and population explosion associated with these breeds should be considered as a major welfare issue for dogs at a population level.

• New research by the RVC identifies markers for key health and productivity traits in sub-Saharan African chicken populations

  

  New study finds that birds from two distinct indigenous chicken populations (ecotypes) in Ethiopia share several genetic regions linked to important productivity and disease resistance traits

   14 Oct 2020

  A new study by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), University of Liverpool, the University of …