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• New VetCompass publication: Epidemiology of canine hyperadrenocorticism in the UK

  

  A new VetCompass paper published in Journal of Small Animal Practice describes the epidemiology of hyperadrenocorticism in dogs attending primary-care practice in the UK.    This study aimed to describe the signalment, prevalence and risk factors …

   11 Jun 2016

• BVD eradication project

  The RVC will be providing technical direction to an industry lead project to eradicate BVD from the cattle herd in Wales.   Bovine Viral Diarrhoea is an important immunosuppressive disease of cattle and is an underlying problem on many cattle farms …

   08 Aug 2017

  The RVC will be providing technical direction to an industry lead project to eradicate BVD from the …

• ABWE Students represent RVC at BIAZA (British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums) Research conference

  

   4 of our BSc and Masters students represented the RVC at the 20th BIAZA research conference at Paignton Zoo - 9th-11th July. A great opportunity to display their work on some very interesting and worthy questions:   Mitali Sharma,  gave a …

   03 Aug 2018

   4 of our BSc and Masters students represented the RVC at the 20th BIAZA research conference at …

• RVC Brachycephalic Research team - References

  The ethical issues surrounding brachycephalic breeds are numerous, and conflicting interests exist within and between stakeholder groups. Breeders, owners and vets alike have a moral responsibility to safeguard the health and welfare of sentient animals to the best of their ability.

• Collaborative Outputs

  VetCompass collaborates widely with other research, institutional and organisational groups nationally and internationally on welfare-focused research and impact. These are some exemplars of this wider work and outputs. A mapping review of …

• IFSTAL launch and documentary film screening of "The Scottish Breed"

  

  IFSTAL is a collaboration between five higher education institutions: The University of Oxford, LCIRAH (comprising The Royal Veterinary College (RVC), The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, School of Oriental and African Studies) and …

   08 Oct 2019

  IFSTAL is a collaboration between five higher education institutions: The University of Oxford, …

• 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 …

• 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.

• A study to establish canine and feline 95% reference intervals for the QMHA Radiometer ABL800 FLEX machines

  Background: The Radiometer machines in the Emergency Room and the Intensive Care Unit of the QMHA are used multiple times every day to measure blood gases and biochemical parameters in dogs and cats within the hospital, however, canine and feline …

• New bacterial proteins identified in bacteria tempering with the immune response

   A new study involving RVC researchers has been published relating to the identification of bacterial proteins identified in Staphylococcus aureus tempering with the immune response. The epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( …

   17 Dec 2014

   A new study involving RVC researchers has been published relating to the identification of …