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Vitamin K3 (menadione) in Pet Food: Is It Safe?
One of the most popular fallacies that arises in discussions of pet health is the appeal to nature or naturalistic fallacy. Simply put, this is the notion that what is labeled “natural” is inherently safe, beneficial, or otherwise good, and … Continue reading
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Salmonella and Other Risks of Raw Pet Diets
Primal Pet Foods, a popular marketer of commercial raw diets for dogs and cats, recently announced a recall of one of its raw cat foods because testing has suggested the diet may be contaminated with the bacteria Salmonella. Such recalls … Continue reading
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Evaluation of the Chinese Herbal Remedies San Ren Tang, Wei Lin Tang, and Alisma for Feline Urinary Tract Disease
Though herbal remedies often have an aura of being somehow fundamentally different from drugs used as medicines, they are really just collections of chemical compounds. As such, they ought to be evaluated just as conventional pharmaceuticals are: identification and isolation … Continue reading
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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
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Is Recommending Glucosamine for Arthritis Evidence-Based Medicine, or Wishful Thinking?
In January, I discussed growing skepticism about the benefits of oral glucosamine and chondroitin as a treatment for arthritis in dogs and cats. In that post, I made reference to a short feature I wrote which appeared in the Journal … Continue reading
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California Veterinary Medical Association Campaign Against Unlicensed Treatment of Animals
There must be something in the air. Lately, I’ve run across a number of stories about regulatory agencies trying to crack down on illegal or unsupported medical claims, in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. I am a bit pessimistic about … Continue reading
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CAM and the Law Part 2: Licensure and Scope of Practice Law
This is a cross-post from Science-Based Medicine- CAM and the Law Part 2: Licensure and Scope of Practice Law This post is intended to illustrate a bit about how medicine, including alternative medicine, is defined and limited legally by state … Continue reading
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Cold Laser Therapy
A popular therapy among chiropractors who treat pets is low level laser or “cold laser” treatment. It is an impressive bit of showmanship to pull out a complex-looking device and with a serious expression wave a beam of light over … Continue reading
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Give a Dog a Bone (Not!)–FDA warns of dangers of feeding bones to dogs
The Food and Drug Administration issue a warning about feeding bones to dogs recently. Just like feeding milk to cats (which also isn’t a very good idea), giving bones to dogs is a cultural cliché that we learn about as … Continue reading
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Board Certified Woo — Or Should I Say Meow?
CAM proponents generally struggle against government regulation of their industry, though they will also often cite state licensure, when it is required, as evidence that their approaches are legitimate. However, in the absence of such a government imprimatur of legitimacy, … Continue reading
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