Veterinary Industry News

Stonehaven Incubate has teamed up with Sports Performance Tracking (SPT) and veterinary pain specialist, Dr. B Duncan X Lascelles – al...

Stonehaven Incubate creates unique collaboration to boost animal health through wearable technology

Stonehaven Incubate

Following this week’s decision by the Kenyan government to close the country’s four donkey abattoirs and bring a halt to the tra...

Spana calls for Tanzania and other nations to follow Kenya's ban on the donkey skin trade

SPANA

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has rolled out a suite of resources to support vets across the UK in reporting suspected cases of i...

BVA rolls out suite of resources to help vets across the UK report suspected illegal pet import cases

BVA

The College of Animal Welfare now offers the opportunity for Registered Veterinary Nurses to top up their veterinary nursing qualification t...

New Top Up Degree Launched by CAW for Registered Veterinary Nurses

The College of Animal Welfare

Vets Now is pledging to pay all of its staff more than the 'real' living wage.It’s understood they are the first major veterin...

Vets Now in ‘real’ living wage pledge

Vets Now

New DNA test launched to help breeders reduce prevalence of blinding condition in Shetland SheepdogsScientists working at the Kennel Club Ge...

UK's largest canine genome bank leads to breakthrough for Shetland Sheepdogs

The Kennel Club

A recent survey by Vita Animal Health has found that most horse owners have a first aid box, with the majority containing Phenylbutazone (Bu...

57% of horse owners keep bute in first aid box, new survey shows

Vita Animal Health

3 days ago

The ear revolution is here. Bayer Animal Health launches Neptra® in the UK

Bayer HealthCare

For the first time, UK vets are now able to offer the only veterinarian-administered single-dose treatment for canine otitis externa (O...

4 days ago

Part-time work wanted as nearly half of vet students say they can’t make ends meet

BVA

Part-time work for veterinary students is on the rise as almost half (46%) say that they have less money than they need to live on, accordin...

4 days ago

March deadline for applications to study for Veterinary Practice Administration Certificate

Veterinary Management Group

Students are invited to apply to join the next cohort to study for the Veterinary Management Group’s Veterinary Practice Administratio...

Animal nutrition science and expert opinion were ‘brought to heel’ at Waterside last week (Thu 13 February), after a national co...

Waterside pet food conference was the best in show

University of Northampton

Yorkshire, UK: The full judging panel for the Burgess Excel Vet Awards has now been revealed. 2020 marks the first year of the awards,...

Judging Panel Announced For Burgess Excel Vet Awards

Burgess Pet Care

The European Advisory Board on Cat Diseases (ABCD) invites applications for the 2020 ABCD & Boehringer Ingelheim Award, which aims to re...

ABCD & Boehringer Ingelheim invite applications for the 2020 Young Scientist Award

ABCD

Experts offer vets and vet nurses bitesize emergency and critical care CPDLeading OOH emergency and critical care providers, Vets Now, will ...

Specialist-led ECC CPD roadshow to tour the UK this year

Vets Now

Nearly half (42%) of the pet rabbits that vets see in the UK spend their life alone, despite evidence showing that they are healthier and ha...

The UK’s pet rabbits are lonely hearts looking for companionship, say vets

BVA

The Northern Ireland Branch of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) and the North of Ireland Veterinary Association (NIVA) have jointly ...

New president steps up to take on dual BVA NI and NIVA role

BVA

Simon Dunne has been appointed as Market Director for the Irish division of Royal Canin UK & Ireland.Simon will sit on the UK and Irelan...

Royal Canin UK and Ireland appoints new Ireland Market Head

Royal Canin

Is there a hero in your veterinary team that deserves recognition for their outstanding contribution? Someone that shows a huge amount of co...

Do you work with a veterinary hero? IVNA awards are open for nominations

Royal Canin

Now into its sixth year, Cx Congress 2020 takes place in Nottingham on the 12th and 13th of June. We’re delighted to announce that Pro...

Spend the day with Professor Cindy Adams at Cx Congress 2020 – World-class expert in veterinary communication

Onswitch

The Society for Companion Animal Studies (SCAS) is delighted to announce a three-year funding programme to enable research that furthers our...

Funding available to support research into human-animal relationships

SCAS

IVC Evidensia has announced that Richard Stephenson, clinical director of Pool House Equine Clinic is to take over from Graham Hunter as the...

New Chair for Equine Clinical Advisory Board

IVC Evidensia UK & IE

7 days ago

Veterinary leaders issue rallying call for colleagues to #BeKind

BVA

Officers and senior staff of the leading veterinary and nursing bodies have published an open letter to colleagues decrying the use of &ldqu...

7 days ago

Zoetis Launches Simparica Trio Once-monthly Combination Canine Antiparasitic in Europe

Zoetis

Zoetis, the world’s leading animal health company, today announced the European launch of Simparica TrioTM – a once-monthly trip...

7 days ago

Propose partnership to your boss, not your true love this leap year, says XLVets

XLVets

XLVets is encouraging female vets to consider using the 29th Feb to make a partnership proposal to their boss, rather than their true love, ...

PetMedix has been voted best start-up in the global Animal Pharm Awards. The UK-based start-up is developing a new tier of monoclonal antibo...

PetMedix win Best Start-up 2019 in the Animal Pharm Awards

Petmedix

Traditional Chinese medicine manufacturer Dong-E-E-Jiao is reported to have donated over £100,000 worth of ‘Ejiao’ to seve...

Brooke warns of increased risk of contamination as Chinese company looks to treat coronavirus with traditional medicine made from donkey skins

Brooke

On Friday 3rd April, at BSAVA Congress, the Purina® Institute will host a two-hour symposium on managing cat allergens. Speakers at the ...

Purina® Institute symposium at BSAVA Congress to focus on managing cat allergens

Purina Institute

New immigration rules announced today are a mixed bag for the veterinary profession and leave a big question mark over how the profession wi...

New immigration rules leave a big question mark for vets, says BVA

BVA

Video With My Vet Ltd announces the launch of its telemedicine app which enables practices to provide video consultations with their clients...

Launch of Video With My Vet - Enabling clients to have remote consultations with their practices

Vetstream

York – February 2020. The first bacterial GI support product developed from the intestinal bacteria of healthy dogs has landed in...

The first ‘for dogs, from dogs’ canine bacterial GI support product launches in the UK

Animalcare

The British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) has become an Educational Partner of the World Small Animal Veterinary Associa...

BSAVA Becomes Educational Partner of WSAVA

WSAVA

Ceva Animal Health, manufacturer of Amodip, is launching Hypertension Ambassadors, a unique online CPD course to update vets and veterinary ...

Ceva launches Hypertension Ambassadors’ initiative

CEVA

Improve International has launched the first volume of the latest in its new textbook series - the Improve International Manual of Cli...

Improve International Manual of Clinical Small Animal Internal Medicine Launched

Improve International

An intrepid band of runners from a Solihull veterinary centre refused to allow Storm Ciara to ruin their fundraising plans for Cancer Resear...

Willows' warriors defy Storm Ciara to raise thousands for charity

Linnaeus Group

It isn’t too late to recruit puppies for the University of Lincoln’s study into puppy behaviour and the effect of a pheromone co...

It’s not too late to recruit puppies for the University of Lincoln pheromone study

CEVA

Frégis, the largest referral hospital in France was founded in 1836 in Paris. It was the very first clinic to practice medicine on pets at ...

Centre Hospitalier Vétérinaire Frégis in Paris joins IVC Evidensia

IVC Evidensia UK & IE

Virbac is pleased to announce the arrival of Evicto, the new Selamectin alternative for cats, dogs, kittens and puppies.Evicto offers truste...

Virbac adds Evicto to their parasite protection range

Virbac Animal Health

The British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) is offering free membership to veterinary students to help encourage more vets into e...

BEVA offers free membership to vet students

BEVA

Sarah Tomlinson, veterinary surgeon at Westpoint Farm Vets in Derbyshire and Technical Director of the TB Advisory Service (TBAS), was named...

Dairy Vet of the Year Announced

KRKA

A veterinary team in Northampton is celebrating after winning a national award for its outstanding initiatives supporting the wellbeing and ...

Vet team recognised for wellbeing initiatives

Vets4Pets