Vets1laser: Australia’s vet-to-vet direct medical laser company.

Our Australian veterinary & family owned business offers outright purchase options across our range of machines, along with lease purchase options.  If you are interested in purchasing a top quality laser machine, without any hype or spin or ‘weasel’ words re origin of manufacturing or fake claims re users or experience, then  join our growing […]

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WSAVA award winners named

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) have announced the recipients of several of their annual awards ahead of this year’s WSAVA World Congress in Lisbon, Portugal in late September.  WSAVA was established in 1959 and has grown to include 115 veterinary association members globally, representing more than 200,000 small companion animal veterinarians.  The 2023 […]

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UQ’s experimental canine cancer vaccine test

University of Queensland veterinary researchers are recruiting pet dogs diagnosed with cancer to test an experimental vaccine. The clinical research trial is for dogs recently diagnosed with canine appendicular osteosarcoma, a common bone tumour that affects 10,000 dogs a year globally. Abhilasha Dadhich from UQ’s School of Veterinary Science said researchers will assess two vaccine formulations. “These treatments […]

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Maximising sterilisation success

From smaller veterinary clinics with benchtop autoclaves to larger sites with packing, prep and sterilisation rooms, achieving efficiencies and proper sterilisation is vital. According to sterilisation specialist Andrew Elford from Mediquip/MQ Vet – which has provided veterinary sterilisation set ups for decades, some initial considerations include the type of instruments the clinic needs to sterilise, […]

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Investigating the relationship between inbreeding and life expectancy in dogs: mongrels live longer than pure breeds

This study aimed to investigate the establishment of relationship between inbreeding and life expectancy in dogs. A dataset of N = 30,563 dogs sourced from the VetCompass™ Program, UK was made available by the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, containing information about breed and longevity and was subject to survival analysis. A Cox regression proportional hazards […]

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