Canine diabetes diagnoses more common in cool tempsAugust 29, 2022Dogs living in colder climates may be more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes, the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) reports.
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Dogs, kids, and cancer: How dogs are helpingFebruary 18, 2022When it comes to kids, dogs are getting involved in healthcare. Specifically, they are playing a big role in helping pediatric oncologists battle osteosarcoma.
Dogs can alert human risk to Lyme diseaseMay 27, 2019Health-care providers can now use dogs as a way to measure human risk for Lyme disease, according to a study by Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC). "This research shows how man's best friend continues to safeguard humans as a sentinel to alert humans where they are at greatest risk for Lyme disease," says CAPC executive director, Christopher Carpenter, DVM. "The model established in this research breaks new ground to give residents, travelers, and health-care providers a county-level map to help them identify areas of risk across the country." Through the study, researchers quantified the relationship between canine seroprevalence for the disease-causing bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, and Lyme disease in humans. Seroprevalence is used to calculate the number of dogs testing positive among all tested dogs within a county. The study showed a correlation between human incidence and dog seroprevalence. According to researchers, they were able to study more than seven years of nationwide canine diagnostic data as a result of dogs being tested annually for exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi. The collected data represented more than 400 million data points, which is usually difficult to obtain when looking directly at ticks and the environment. "By combining sophisticated statistical modeling with this …
OVC veterinarian removes tumor, replaces dog's skull using 3D printingSeptember 27, 2018A veterinarian from Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) has replaced part of a dog’s skull with a 3D-printed titanium plate after removing a tumour that was weighing down her head.
