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The resveratrol study every owner will ask about, and what it actually showed
A prospective trial found attenuation of NT-proBNP elevation in treated dogs, but no change in cardiac function or myocardial injury markers.
5 min read · Aug 11
Mid-femur carries the muscle mass, and the 0-6 palpation score that tracked it
A Korean university scanned 76 hindlimbs to find out where muscle mass concentrates, and whether a standardized palpation score tracks what the imaging shows.
5 min read · Aug 11
The sepsis call that just got harder to make in the exam room
A consensus panel redefined sepsis in dogs and cats, and the threshold you learned in school just moved.
3 min read · Aug 11
POCUS Found Pneumothorax in 5 of 14 High-Rise Cats. Radiographs Caught Three.
Five cats had pneumothorax on ultrasound; thoracic radiographs identified three. The miss happened in cats with normal vitals.
3 min read · Aug 11
The heroin-packet case: eight packets, two naloxone doses, one surgery
Naloxone reversed the signs. The dog went home. Two days later, the signs came back. Imaging showed why.
3 min read · Aug 11
The anesthesia choice that didn't move the endothelial needle
A randomized trial measured endothelial biomarkers in dogs anesthetized with sevoflurane versus isoflurane and found no difference.
3 min read · Aug 11
The PU complication rate every practice should benchmark against
140 cats, four teaching hospitals, and the finding that changes how you counsel owners before the surgery.
2 min read · Aug 11
The IV bolus before pericardiocentesis showed no benefit in this trial
A randomized trial tested whether the crystalloid bolus before the tap actually helps. The answer changes how you run the next tamponade case.
4 min read · Aug 11
The Summer Research Fellowship Nobody Will Hire You For
A DVM student is spending her summer on pig embryo research. The work is solid. The job market for it has collapsed.
4 min read · Aug 11
NC State Just Got $2.5M to Train Ph.D.s Nobody's Hiring For
NC State's renewed NIH grant trains interdisciplinary researchers, not the associates practices are trying to hire.
3 min read · Aug 11
The feline compliance gap nobody wants to say out loud: one in three
One in three cats saw a vet last year. CatsOnly is betting the gap isn't demand, it's design. What the model changes and what it doesn't tell you.
3 min read · Aug 11
The career fair your competitor showed up to six months before you posted the job
You can't out-pay the panic hire. But you can out-recruit it, starting at the vet tech program down the road.
4 min read · Aug 7
Fewer than half of UK clients know their vet is corporate-owned. Those groups charge 18% more.
UK regulator data: corporate groups averaged 18.3% above independents while scoring worse on client satisfaction with cost.
3 min read · Aug 6
Five vet students just won $10K each to enter poultry medicine
The AAAP-Merck partnership just announced its eleventh cohort. That longevity is the story.
2 min read · Aug 6
The rural vet who mentors students every summer, and the placement data nobody has yet
Christine McPherson Long hosts students every summer. Whether they take rural jobs after graduation is a question the program doesn't answer.
4 min read · Aug 5
The prep-room bottleneck costing you billable time between cases
Inefficient room flow bleeds time you can't bill for. A dual-boarded surgeon's checklist of the layout variables that actually move the needle.
6 min read · Aug 4
Your practice burns 400-600 hours a year on prescription admin alone
A typical practice may spend the equivalent of a quarter FTE on prescription admin. Here's what digital workflow actually reclaims.
5 min read · Aug 3
Fourteen Cats Got Dog Plasma. Here's the Number Emergency Vets Need.
Five of fourteen survived to discharge. Small sample, but it's the only published count emergency vets have for xenotransfusion.
4 min read · Jul 30
CVS Just Became Your Pharmacy Competitor, and Your Client Already Has the App
The chain has auto-refill infrastructure and monthly visit frequency. You have the prescription pad and the relationship.
3 min read · Jul 30
Roo Just Put a Number on Every Relief Shift You Couldn't Fill
Analytics Center turns logged relief coverage into fill rates, cancellation patterns, and site-level gaps you can act on.
4 min read · Jul 30
Eleven High Schoolers Just Spent Five Weeks in Vet Research Labs. One Learned She Could Skip Surgery.
A weak stomach nearly ended one participant's veterinary dream. Then she found the lab work. What NC State's pilot tells us about the pipeline.
4 min read · Jul 29
Your CE Hours Might Not Count. Here Is How to Check.
State boards do not share a rulebook on continuing education, and a hallway certificate from a sponsor booth is not automatically the same thing as a credit your license renewal will accept.
4 min read · Jul 28
Burnout by the Numbers: What the 18 Percent Actually Looks Like
The Merck Animal Health-AVMA Wellbeing Study switched to a validated burnout instrument in 2023, and the new granularity shows work-life balance beating income as the strongest predictor of who is running on empty.
5 min read · Jul 28
Mars, NVA, and IVC Evidensia Are Not the Same Job
All three own thousands of hospitals and call their doctors "associates," but the paycheck, the mentorship, and who owns the practice down the line look nothing alike.
4 min read · Jul 28