Medical

When we think of sports for dogs we usually think of racing and coursing or luring as with greyhounds; or of field trial dogs for hunting, or even sled dogs in the Iditarod.

Osteoarthritis (OA) affects diarthrodial joints of small animals including the shoulder, elbow, carpus, hip, stifle, tarsus, and spinal articulations.

The term laser stands for light amplification stimulated by emission of radiation.

Aging is not a disease. However, in the canine athlete, it may seem that they get older faster.

Important considerations when treating cases include concurrent conditions such as those that occur following trauma, prevention of further injury, and repeat examination to identify problems that were not previously diagnosed.

Tendon and ligament injuries can be serious enough to not only affect performance but to end a dogs career.

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines a pesticide as "any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or lessening the damage of any pest".

The veterinarians role in the health care of dogs is changing.

When one is concerned about treating intoxications, the primary emphasis should be on prevention, not treatment.

This discussion will be divided into OTC products and Illegal drugs for ease of discussion.

Heavy metals have often been a cause of intoxication in companion animals but the number metals that cause a toxicosis is low.

Household products are generally made from complex chemical mixtures.

A venomous animal produces a toxin to attack its prey or defend itself. Animal venoms are protein in nature and primarily enzymes.

Down cattle represent a major welfare issue for the dairy industry.

The adult dairy cow is in a constant battle with infectious agents trying to invade her body and establish disease.

Despite all of the efforts that dairyman and dairy veterinarians have put into mastitis control and milk quality, mastitis continues to be one of the most common diseases on dairy farms.

The periparturient period is a very stressful time of transition for the dairy cow and as a result many diseases, such as milk fever, ketosis, metritis, and fatty liver to name a few are contracted through this period.

Animal welfare is the state of an animal as it attempts to cope with its environment.

Bacterial infections requiring extended antimicrobial therapy (such as pneumonia, peritonitis, sepsis, uterine and dental infection) are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in camelids.

Respiratory distress is generally defined as outwardly evident, labored respiratory efforts or ventilation i.e. the clinically apparent inability to adequately ventilate and/or oxygenate.

South American Camelids (SAC) have gained significant popularity as pets, show, pack (llamas) and fiber animals in the United States, which has resulted in an increasing demand for intensive care management of critically ill neonatal crias over the past 10 years.

The accepted working definition of sepsis in humans is based on a 2010 Consensus Conference statement on sepsis and organ failure, which identified sepsis as a systemic inflammatory response (SIRS) associated with suspected or proven infection (fungal, bacterial, viral or rickettsial).

A variety of primary lung diseases have been reported in llamas and alpacas in the peer-reviewed literature, although pulmonary dysfunction may be underestimated, due to subtle presenting signs and lack of routine functional analysis of the respiratory track in this species.

Old World Camelids are legendary in their ability to preserve water.

A certain scent is associated with lung cancer, and dogs can detect it.

"This just spread like wildfire," says veterinarian Michele Wright of Huebner Oaks Veterinary Hospital.

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Madison, Wis. - Veterinary researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison awarded a $4 million Recovery Act Grant to study surface and chronic wounds, which cost the U.S. healthcare system $15 billion each year.