Personal Wellbeing
Running on Empty
There are a few ways to ensure you and your coworkers are getting enough sleep.
Personal/Professional Development
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Technology
How Technology Is Transforming Veterinary Education
While the technology being used in today’s veterinary classroom is flipping conventional pedagogy on its head, these experts say more mind-blowing advances may be just ahead.
Infectious Disease
Feline Giardia: Transmission, Diagnosis, and Treatment
This overview on feline Giardia covers transmission, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and zoonotic implications.
Nutrition
Compliance Strategies for the Obese Patient
Showing clients how to assess weight and discussing what “non-negotiables” are important to the human-animal bond are just a few strategies at increasing client compliance in a weight-loss plan.
Preventive Medicine
Canine Parainfluenza Virus Vaccination
Routine vaccination helps reduce the role that CPIV plays in coinfection with a growing number of pathogens, thereby keeping at-risk dogs and populations healthier.
Ophthalmology
Diagnosing, Treating, and Managing Causes of Conjunctivitis in Dogs and Cats
The systemic conditions associated with conjunctivitis may present with or without additional ocular abnormalities.
Dermatology
Diagnostic Approach to the Pruritic Dog
A pruritic work-up should include getting a thorough history, eliminating infectious or parasitic causes before leaping into an allergic skin disease assessment, and leaving atopic dermatitis as a last-resort diagnosis.
Internal Medicine
Approaches to Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Small Animals
Although the prognosis of fungal infections is guarded to poor, a multimodal and aggressive approach can yield some positive results.
Nutrition
Dietary Elimination Trial in a Dog with Protein-Losing Nephropathy
This case report covers the dilemma of providing optimal nutrition to a dog with concurrent renal disease and suspected food allergy.