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Vet Vault Podcast: Science vs Profit & Navigating Medicine, Money, and Morals
A while back I had an enjoyable conversation with Dr. Hubert Hiemstra, who runs the Vet Vault podcast on the Sunshine Coast of Australia. We talked about the changing landscape of veterinary medicine, including economics and science, as well as … Continue reading
The Expanding Universe of Canine Aging Science- From VPN
Aging is the single most important risk factor for disability, disease, and, ultimately, death in adult dogs.1 It has long been viewed as inevitable and immutable, but decades of scientific research have demonstrated aging is more appropriately understood as a modifiable … Continue reading
Choosing Wisely- 2025 Edition
A regular feature in my continuing education conference talks for vets is a review of therapies that are popular and they we might want to reconsider based on scientific evidence. Some of these are perennial, such as metronidazole for acute … Continue reading
Bizarre Plan to “Destroy” Veterinary Medicine
I have written a few times in the past about one of the most powerful, and richest, promoters of pseudoscience in the world, Joseph Mercola. More often, I have written about his veterinarian accomplice, Dr. Karen Becker. For many years, Dr. Becker promoted … Continue reading
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BVA Neutering Webinar
I recently participated in a free webinar discussing neutering of dogs and cats (always a hot-button topic!). I made a screen recording of my segment of the presentation, which I am posting here. There were some technical glitches, including some … Continue reading
Nope, Acupuncture Still Doesn’t Work for Pain
With the dozens of posts covering hundreds of scientific publications and my own experience with acupuncture trainingand practice, I have surely exhausted the subject. Right? Well, in my own mind I have since it is clear to me that acupuncture is founded on … Continue reading
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Do You Trust Your Vet?
Do you trust your vet? How much? It turns out your answer may well be a good predictor of how likely your dog or cat is to be appropriately vaccinated. The hesitancy and misinformation about vaccines that has been growing … Continue reading
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Cow Pie & Apple Pie: Integrative Medicine in Today’s Veterinary Practice Journal
Integrative Medicine- Mixing Apple Pie and Cow PieA recent issue of the journal Today’s Veterinary Practice contained a couple of articles form some familiar folks who represent the problematic notion of “integrative medicine.” This is a poorly defined term which typically is a way … Continue reading
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Lifespan and Healthspan
A snippet from a free webinar I co-present with Dr. Lippman and Dr. Tarantino from the Senior and Geriatric Dog Society. You can take the full course here- https://loyal.dog/course-5B-BM
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