Month: September 2023

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]