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Reiki for Pain After Spay Surgery in Dogs? Please no!
What Is It?Though I haven’t devoted a single post to the subject, I have mentioned Reiki many times and explained why it is one of the clearest examples of pseudoscientific nonsense out there. Believing Reiki has therapeutic benefits requires abandoning science and … Continue reading
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What Does “FDA Approval” Mean for Vets and Pet Owners?
I recently gave a lecture at a continuing education conference looking at how the regulation of veterinary treatments works, and how vets can use this process to help them make evidence-based treatment recommendations. Understanding what is required to claim a … Continue reading
NuQ Cancer Screening Test- Yes or No?
ScreeningOne of the topics I have written about frequently here is screening—testing apparently healthy individuals to look for disease that hasn’t yet cause clinical symptoms. Screening is popular in human and veterinary medicine because of the widespread belief that the earlier … Continue reading
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Free Webinar- Understanding aging in dogs: From principles to practice
Next week, I am giving a free webinar in collaboration with Dr. Monica Tarantino and Dr. Lisa Lipman of the Senior and Geriatric Dog Society! What you’ll learn: This program has been RACE-approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit … Continue reading
Posted in Aging Science
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Should You Give Your Dog Rapamycin?
Not too long ago, I wrote a post discussing the various categories of regulatory oversight for veterinary medicines. These range from pretty good evidence of safety and efficacy for approved drugs to no meaningful requirement for scientific evidence (and usually pretty little of … Continue reading
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FDA, XCA, RXE: What Does the Alphabet Soup of Conditional Drug Approval Mean for Veterinarians?
Making Evidence-based Treatment ChoicesThe core of evidence-based medicine is integrating the best current scientific evidence with our own clinical expertise and the needs of the patient and the client when making diagnostic and treatment recommendations.1 Accurately understanding the potential risks … Continue reading
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The Entourage Effect: Science or Folk Belief?
While pre-scientific folk medicine traditions have always relied on trial-and-error learning passed down through generations, most have also had underlying theoretical frameworks used to explain the origins of disease and to guide the choice of treatments. In this blog, and … Continue reading
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Your Annual Reminder that there is no Reason to Believe Homeopathy Can Help Your Pet
I have devoted far too much time and energy to the least plausible of alternative therapies in veterinary medicine, homeopathy. From a comprehensive literature review in 2012 to a detailed response to the best evidence the Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy … Continue reading
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WSAVA Adds Chinese Medicine Pseudoscience to Continuing Education Conference Held in China
The World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) regularly sponsors a continuing education conference, as many such veterinary membership organizations do. This year is the first time the conference is being held in China. This is also the first time the conference has … Continue reading
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Evidence Update: Yunnan Baiyao- Where are we Now?
One of the longest running subjects for posts here has been the Chinese herbal product Yunnan Baiyao (YB). Purported to help stop or prevent bleeding, this stuff seems to be pretty commonly used in veterinary medicine, mostly for dogs with … Continue reading
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