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The UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer has urged farmers to increase their vigilance for bluetongue virus after the disease was picked up and dealt with in three consignments of cattle imported from France…

Dechra Veterinary Products has announced that it will add two new antibiotics to treat respiratory infections in cats and a range of bacterial infections in dogs to its antibiotic portfolio from Decem…

Virbac has announced the arrival of Veterinary HPM Hypoallergy, a new addition to the Veterinary HPM Clinical Diets range for both dogs and cats.Veterinary HPM Hypoallergy is an elimination diet formu…

New book from rabbit behavioural expert Guen Bradbury gives owners and veterinary professionals the tools they need to address unwanted behaviour in rabbits under their care

Medicine and surgery of the endocrine system and emergency medicine are the focus for VetsSouth and VetsNorth 2019. The programme, which runs at both events, also introduces an extended nursing stream…

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Mind Matters Initiative (MMI) is focusing on how to increase wellbeing with a slew of upcoming webinars hosted by The Webinar Vet. The first webinar tak…

The BVA is calling on advertisers as well as veterinary practices to give full thought to the way in which animals are depicted in their marketing and communications in order to encourage responsible …

A new series of Innovation Workshops is being launched by ViVet – the veterinary innovation network run by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) – to help provide veterinary surgeons and vet…

Nominations are now being invited from all veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses who are eligible to stand for RCVS Council and Veterinary Nurses (VN) Council, respectively, for next year’s electi…

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association has called on veterinarians and breeders to reduce the suffering caused by hereditary disease in companion animals by adopting a ‘health conscious’ approa…

The deadline for submissions to the joint Mind Matters Initiative (MMI) and Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons (SPVS) Vet Wellbeing Awards has been extended to allow for more submissions to be …

The Chief Veterinary Officers across the UK are encouraging all poultry keepers to take action now to reduce the risk of disease over the winter.

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has started the process of selling its current premises in Belgravia House, Westminster and looking for new premises. At its November meeting RCVS Counc…

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The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has responded to the Public Accounts Committee report, Defra’s progress towards Brexit, welcoming its recognition of the need for urgent action to guard agains…

The first major audit of routine neutering of cats and dogs in the UK has revealed the complication rates associated with the procedure, including the number of abnormalities requiring medical treatme…

Women in the veterinary profession still face discrimination and it is those who believe they are no longer experiencing it who are most likely to discriminate, a new study has revealed. Researchers a…

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has responded to the review of the Government’s 25 year Bovine TB Strategy. The review, which was commissioned by Environment Secretary Michael Gove and led b…

Pig tail docking – the cutting, clipping or cauterizing of part of the tail in the first week after birth to prevent tail biting – is still routine practice in many European countries, despite legisla…

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) is urging companion animal veterinarians globally to complete a multi-lingual online questionnaire from its newly formed Professional Wellness Gro…