For nearly 84 years, the US Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act has demanded that any drug intended for humans be tested in animals before human clinical trials commence. If Congress passes a package of reforms for the Food and Drug Administration as expected, that mandate could be reversed this summer. The legislation does not […]
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In our business, 44 per cent of our vets are from overseas (36 out of 82). Across all of New Zealand, the data suggests around 30 per cent of all registered vets are from overseas. In Australia, that figure is only nine per cent. For New Zealand, a country that only produces 120 vets a […]
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Many of this column’s readers have likely heard of the stories using ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19 in humans. Last August, in a Health Alert from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, poison control centers across the US were seeing a sharp spike in reports of people suffering adverse health effects after […]
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We are approaching the end of another European winter living with Covid. The Omicron variant arrived in the UK in early December 2021, by the 4th of January this year daily confirmed cases peaked just short of 275,000. The numbers have since fallen back considerably, but other European nations including: France, Russia and Germany are […]
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I’ve been privileged to have been a vet for over 30 years. It was a vaguely random choice at the time- I can’t pretend it was born out of a huge passion, or an intellectual dissection of its promise, or even a great desire for service. Instead, for a slightly above average student in a […]
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