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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
Posted in Aging Science, Nutrition
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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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Librela (bedinvetmab) for Arthritis in Dogs: Is it Safe?
What’s the Fuss About?In May of 2023, the FDA approved a new treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) pain in dogs. This was Librela (bedinvetmab). A monoclonal antibody that targets nerve growth factor (NGF), Librela was a completely new category of treatment … Continue reading
Posted in Science-Based Veterinary Medicine
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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
Posted in General, Science-Based Veterinary Medicine
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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
Posted in Aging Science
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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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