This year’s WSAVA Award for Scientific Achievement goes to a vet, educator and researcher in recognition of his global contribution to small animal clinical practice.
Demand for procaine hydrochloride, widely used on farm animals, is particularly high in the spring, and supply problems have worried vets enough for them to seek Government assurance.
Research – carried out by the RVC, AHT and Rossdales Equine Hospital – also showed the groups particularly at risk were native pony breeds and their crosses.
Davies Veterinary Specialists, based in Hertfordshire, becomes one of the few centres in the UK able to offer canine unicompartmental elbow replacement.
Severe goniodysgenesis is an inherited condition in which a dog’s eyes don’t develop properly. In some dogs, it can lead to glaucoma, which causes sudden blindness at a young age.
"… this case serves as a reminder to UK veterinary surgeons that we must be vigilant for conditions such as Leishmania in non-travelled dogs and that alternative transmission mechanisms do exist.” - RVC.
“Once again, the breadth of nominations for the welfare awards has amazed and enthused the judging panel” – chairman of the Ceva Animal Welfare Awards judging panel, Chris Laurence.
Elinor O’Connor, of The University of Manchester, is aiming to identify what aspects of vets’ work can be demanding – and the resultant link to well-being.
