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• 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
• Investigating the epidemiology of canine heatstroke presenting to UK primary care veterinary practices

  Hot Dogs – investigating the epidemiology of canine heatstroke presenting to UK primary care veterinary practices

  The study will apply the VetCompass™ database to review the clinical records of over 900,000 dogs registered with UK primary-care veterinary practices for heatstroke events

• 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

• Owners urged to ‘stop and think’ before buying as English bulldogs are twice as likely to have a health problem

  

  New study from the Royal Veterinary College suggests urgent action is required to reduce many serious health issues of English Bulldogs associated with exaggerated features

   15 Jun 2022

• Integrating genetics with functional genomics to dissect the aetiopathogenesis of equine exertional rhabdomyolysis

  

  A Warmblood, one of the types of horse predisposed to ER Equine exertional rhabdomyolysis (ER) is a syndrome involving painful, exercise induced episodes of muscle stiffness and acute myonecrosis which can result in renal failure and in severe …

   12 Apr 2023

  A Warmblood, one of the types of horse predisposed to ER

  Equine exertional rhabdomyolysis (ER) is …

• 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 …

• RVC Academic is runner up at International Bovine Research Awards

  

  Angela Damaso wins award for report on control of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) in dairy farms

   15 Dec 2016

  Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) is a pestivirus infection of cattle which causes a number of clinical …

• New research from the RVC on lead exposure in carnivores highlights risk to wider ecosystems

  

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), in collaboration with Namibian and other international institutions, investigating the impact of lead on carnivore species of conservation concern, revealed that lead-contaminated meat is a …

   12 Nov 2025

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), in collaboration with Namibian and other …

• Ancient bus-sized crocodile had extra vertebra to assist movement, new study shows

  

  An ancient caiman that weighed as much as an Asian elephant (3 tonnes) and almost was as long as a bus (8 metres) had unique specialisations to help it move, a new study shows. The Royal Veterinary College’s (RVC) Professor John Hutchinson joined …

   17 Dec 2019

• Initiatives to control and eliminate parasitic disease are reaching targets earlier than projected

  

  Data, analysed by researchers, from nine national schistosomiasis control programmes, identified that the majority of initiatives acrosssub-Saharan Africa and Yemen have reached the disease-control target by two treatment rounds or less

   24 Dec 2019

  New data, analysed by a group of leading researchers, from nine national schistosomiasis control …