Elanco Animal Health has launched the Osurnia Ear Health Hub, a canine otitis externa information and support resource for veterinary professionals. The Osurnia Ear Health Hub includes information about the treatment of canine otitis externa from dermatologists...

Bayer has announced that Elanco Animal Health has entered into a definitive agreement to buy it's animal health business for 7.6 billion US dollars. The divestment is expected to be concluded in mid-2020, and Bayer intends to exit its stake in...

A new app called What3words , which allows anyone to give their location using just three words, is being recommended by the emergency services for its potential to save lives. What3words divides the globe into a grid of 57 trillion squares measuring...

Paragon Veterinary Referrals has announced that two more specialists have joined its fledgling team. Liz Leece, an RCVS and EBVS specialist in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia (pictured right) and Massimo Mariscoli, an EBVS and RCVS specialist...

Dechra Veterinary Products has launched Ophtocycline (chlortetracycline hydrochloride), a broad spectrum ophthalmic antibiotic ointment for the treatment of a number of eye infections in dogs, cats and horses. Ophtocycline is licensed for the treatment...

Midlands-based Dr Lynn Jo Ann Davies MRCVS has been reprimanded and warned by the RCVS Disciplinary Committee for serious professional misconduct involving drink driving convictions and being under the influence of alcohol whilst on duty as a veterinary...

Katie Whalley, a veterinary nurse at Chipping Norton Veterinary Hospital , has been awarded the first ever MSD Animal Health Veterinary Nurse Research Bursary. Katie (pictured right) was awarded £1,000 for her research into the use of an ATP...

FirstVet, one of the online veterinary consultation providers that launched earlier this year , has joined forces with Bought By Many , a pet insurer. As a result of the new partnership, customers of Bought By Many will have access to free video consultations...

Austin Davis Biologics (ADB) will be launching a new blood test service for diagnosing small redworm (cyathostomin) infections in horses, in September. The company says the new test overcomes a major shortcoming in faecal egg counts: that they can...

Virbac has launched Vetemex (maropitant), an antiemetic for the treatment and prevention of vomiting and nausea in cats and dogs. Vetemex has a 56-day broached shelf life and uses benzyl alcohol as the excipient, rather than metacresol. Virbac points...

Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health has announced the launch of Arti-Cell Forte, the first stem cell-based veterinary medicine to get marketing authorisation for treating equine lameness, calling it a 'breakthrough medicine for degenerative joint disease...

The RCVS Disciplinary Committee has suspended Leicester-based Jatinder Dhami MRCVS for four months after he was found guilty of kicking and stamping on a dog that had bitten him. The Disciplinary Committee heard three charges against Dr Dhami, relating...

The Government has announced that it has accepted the recommendation of the Migration Advisory Committee that veterinary surgeons should be added to the Shortage Occupation List. The announcement came in the form of a written statement by the then...