Companion Animals Content

�鶹��ý Opens Advanced Veterinary Surgery Center

Amy M Quinton — April 16, 2024 - 9:15am

�鶹��ý opens the Advanced Veterinary Surgery Center for animals with injuries or disorders of the bones and joints.

Nation’s No. 1 Veterinary School to Open New ER/ICU

Amy M Quinton — April 26, 2023 - 9:00am

�鶹��ý School of Veterinary Medicine's teaching hospital will open a new emergency room and intensive care unit in May 2023.

Pet Hearts Can Need Healing, Too

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — February 11, 2016 - 11:19am

It’s not just humans who can suffer from heart disease — it affects our pets, too. And understanding disease in companion animals might help us treat human diseases.

Recognized as a pioneer in veterinary cardiology, the University of California, Davis, is developing and testing a number of techniques now widely used in clinics and training generations of residents in the field.

While cats and dogs make up most of the heart patients seen at �鶹��ý, the hospital also regularly examines horses, birds, reptiles, small mammals and zoo animals.

Companion animal patients aid scientists’ search for human health solutions

IET WebDev — October 07, 2015 - 11:25am

Dogs and cats may provide their human companions with more than love and affection. From cancer and osteoarthritis to inflammatory bowel and heart disease, animals are afflicted with many of the same ailments found in people.

These correlations make companion animals ideal models for naturally occurring diseases, according to a collaborative group of �鶹��ý researchers in the cover article of the Oct. 7 issue of Science Translational Medicine at http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/308/308ps21