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Buyer Beware: How to Evaluate Pet Healthcare Products
This is a great time to be a pet owner. Advances in nutrition and veterinary medicine in the last few decades have led to tremendous improvement in the length and quality of our pets’ lives. We have more and better … Continue reading
Posted in General
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Verm-X Herbal Parasite Control: No Real Evidence to Show it is Safe or Effective
I was recently asked by a reader to take a look at a product that had been recommended for deworming their dog, Verm-X. Unfortunately, there is little I can say about this product since, as is all too often the … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements
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NuVet Supplement=Same Old Snake Oil
A client recently asked me about a product, NuVet supplement, which after a little investigation seems to be the yet another fine example of snake oil marketing. It is quite similar to a product I reviewed not that long ago, … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements
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Hit a Nerve: Dr. Andrew Jones’ Followers Attack
In early 2010, I wrote a post listing warning signs of quack therapies, and in this post I made brief reference to Dr. Andrew Jones, who has created a successful business marketing books, DVDs, newsletters and other sources of “secret” … Continue reading
Posted in General
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Protandim–Snake Oil Marketing at its Best (or Worst)
There are a seemingly infinite number of herbal remedies and dietary supplements marketed for pets, thanks largely to the inadequate regulation of such products and the inability of the government to enforce what rules there are. This creates an open … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements
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DogtorRx from Pet Equinox–Style without substance and a model of snake oil marketing
Even when I’m not working, I’m still a veterinarian and a skeptic, and I tend to notice things related to those subjects wherever I am. In this case, I was stopped at a traffic light when something caught my eye, … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements
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Veterinary Homotoxicology
What Is It? Proponents of homotoxicology (also sometimes known as “complex homeopathy”) present it as an advancement or improvement in homeopathy, one that is more scientific and compatible with conventional medicine than classical homeopathy. It can more accurately be seen … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homeopathy
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Holistic Dog Breeding
The vast majority of our companion dogs and cats are neutered, for a variety of good reasons. As a consequence, the healthcare of breeding animals is not a major part of most small animal practices, and it hasn’t been a … Continue reading
Posted in General, Herbs and Supplements, Homeopathy
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The Science of Homeopathy?
Promoters of alternative medicine, especially the more wacky fringe varieties, have a love/hate relationship with science. On the one hand, science often fails to support their theories or claims of clinical effect, so they are inclined to dismiss it. “Allopathic” … Continue reading
Posted in Homeopathy
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Selling Veterinary Stem Cell Therapies: Medivet’s Dodgy Advertising
The primary focus of this blog is to examine carefully the claims and evidence concerning alternative veterinary medical therapies. I focus less on the failures of conventional therapies and providers to always adhere to the highest standards of science-based medicine … Continue reading
Posted in Science-Based Veterinary Medicine
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