Veterinary Industry News

When: 5 – 11 May 2013 Where: Online at www.bluecross.org.uk/NEHS Why: To help safeguard the future health and welfare of the UK’s hors...

Following many months of discussion with members and veterinary associations in Northern Ireland, the BVA Northern Ireland Branch held its i...

The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) is calling on global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to release for rehoming hundreds of bea...

When: Tuesday 5 March 2013 Where: The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, One Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ You can hear the latest ne...

Life is better without hassle – no complications, no obstacles and no unnecessary extra work to get things done. When it comes to CPD,...

CCV Ballymena is declared open! Companion Care Vets is continuing its expansion into Northern Ireland and has opened a brand new £20...

The concerns of veterinary associations about dog welfare and control have been echoed by a cross-party committee of MPs, which has criticis...

Spain’s attempts to give bull-fighting ‘special cultural status’ is a disastrous move for the Spanish economy, Spanish tourist industr...

Defra Minister David Heath has announced the latest bute (phenylbutazone) test results. The presence of bute has been confirmed in 8 samples...

Helping thousands of vets and vet nurses with nutritional advice over the years, the Hill’s Pet Nutrition Veterinary Technical Enquiry Lin...

Six hours of free dermatology CPD has been announced by Virbac. It takes the form of a series of six webinars presented by Professor David ...

Three very excited canine diners.Photo credit: Julia Claxton Photography Brighton vets and boutique restaurant canine fundraiser a ho...

On the 16th Feb Vets4Pets Denton will open its doors to the local community for the first time, making it Vets4Pets 88th practice. New Part...

Invicta Animal Health has been appointed exclusive UK distributor of EquiChekTM. EquiChek is a novel rapid screening test, using whol...

Grove Lodge Vets’ dental vet Rachel Perry earns her big cat stripes Sussex based veterinary dentist Rachel Perry was recently asked...

More than 21 per cent of all UK small animal vets are estimated to have viewed CPD made available as podcasts for the first time by Dech...

Alstoe Ltd. of Sheriff Hutton, York has been acquired by the French company Sogeval, a leading supplier of companion and livestock animal pr...

Friday 8th February saw the Vet students of Nottingham University let their hair down at their Narnia themed 5th Annual Vet Student Ball...

BCF Technology - The Sonosite Edge Veterinary imaging company BCF Technology has now launched the Sonosite Edge ultrasound system. Th...

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Pet Care 2012 Part 1: Continued Growth in an Age of Economic Gloom" report to their ...

Places on a brand new veterinary nurse CPD course in Orthopaedics and Digestive Health have been booking fast with only the final few now re...

Commenting on further reports that horsemeat has entered the food chain and is being sold as beef, Peter Jones, President of the British Vet...

Obese Polish horse with rubbing injury. Photo credit: World Horse Welfare Horse meat discovered in beef products is the product of su...

The Kase looks as stylish as a smartphone — and is just as clever Kinn Inc. has expanded its popular line of products designed to m...

Peter Jinman, one of the RCVS Council members and an RCVS past-President, has been appointed the new Chairman of the Farm Animal Welfare Com...

Following last year’s highly successful Worm Egg Count MasterClass at the Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, EQVALAN® and EQVALAN® D...

The British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) has introduced two new guides to help vets and their clients negotiate the complexities of ...

Vetmedin Injection 075mg box vial Take the stress out of CHF Acute congestive heart failure (CHF) is a distressing situation, for ...

Veterinary associations have hailed the introduction of compulsory microchipping for all dogs in England as a giant leap forward for dogs an...

In a move which appears to signal the beginning of the end for the remaining wild animals in circuses in Britain, Animal Defenders Internati...

In a recent audit of UK dairy herds, 30% of newly calved cows were found to be in a state of subclinical or ‘hidden’ ketosis. These cows...

SPILLERS® has introduced an exciting new horse feed to help owners cut costs without compromising on quality. SPILLERS® Leisure Cubes ...

Docsinnovent stand at the North American Veterinary Conference, Florida, Feb 2013 Veterinarians from all over the USA and the world, ...

Vets are generally pretty unflappable people, but the utterance of just one word by a client can strike fear into even the most stoic he...

Cimalgex-Client-Leaflet Vetoquinol has added to the support items associated with it’s NSAID, Cimalgex® with two new pet owner suppo...

A twitter-based early warning system to alert vets and dog owners of cases of canine parvovirus (CPV) in their area has warned of cases in...

February 2013 will see Vets4Pets launch their national marketing campaign which includes a 20 second TV ad promoting vaccinations for ca...

Vets consider ‘Hill’s y/d’, ‘Cardalis’ and ‘Seresto Collar’ the Best New veterinary products of 2012 Few new products g...

In 2012 Dechra Veterinary Products and Companion Care Vets announced they were supporting a three year scholarship in Rabbit and Exotic Anim...

Twenty organisations representing hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens around the world have today written to the senior management o...

Oxyglobin relaunched by Dechra Veterinary Products Dechra Veterinary Products has relaunched one of its most in demand products after...

The National Equine Forum, to be held on Tuesday 5th March 2013, is appealing to an even broader spectrum of the equestrian industry this ye...

The international animal charity SPANA is appealing for members of the veterinary profession to sign up to this year’s Brighton Marathon i...

What should vets do when a pit bull terrier walks into the waiting room? This question, and many others, were addressed this week when th...

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) is calling on the veterinary medicines regulator to classify all anthelmintics as POM-V, meaning th...

Tansy with Veterinary Nurses Grace Thomson and Megan Eastwood Five year old Tansy Richardson from Cornwall has been announced the win...

Veterinary imaging company BCF Technology has announced significant changes to the Vita CR X-ray system, making the new Image Suite soft...

A photo of last year’s delegates Following its successful debut in 2012, a CPD day which uniquely combines a morning’s CPD with a...