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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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Homemade Diets for Cats and Dogs with Kidney Disease–Most Recipes are Wrong
A new study has been published adding to the evidence, which I have discussed before(see articles listed below), that homemade diets are frequently nutritionally inappropriate and less consistent or reliable than commercial diets. Larsen, JA. Parks, EM. Heinze, CR. Fascetti, … Continue reading
Posted in Nutrition
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Herbal Remedies Can Interfere with HIV Treatment
The popularity of herbal remedies rests, in large part, on the perceptions of these substances as “natural,” a vague, nearly meaningless term often mistakenly understood to mean “safe.” The idea that eating parts of plants, singly or in combination, can … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements
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Veterinary Stem Cells and Snake Oil
I have written several articles previously about veterinary stem cell therapies, which I view as a promising but as yet unproven treatment for a number of medical problems. (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Though not “alternative” in origin, the … Continue reading
Posted in General
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Garlic for Pets- What’s it Good for?
One of the most popular plant products touted for medicinal use in pets is garlic Allium sativum. A recent newsletter by Dr. Deva Khalsa, a popular alternative veterinarian, makes some typical claims: Garlic is a miracle herb! Garlic (Allium sativum) … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements
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Funny for Some of You
(From Veterinarians Behaving Badly. Hasn’t happened to me yet, but I’ve been taken to task, and others I know have been banned for expressing their critical thinking)
Posted in Humor
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Misleading Advertising for Raw Pet Food (again)
H.G. Wells is credited with saying, “Advertising is legalized lying,” though I cannot imagine he is the first person to have thought so. Of course, the difficulty with identifying actual lying in advertising is that it is impossible to know … Continue reading
Posted in Nutrition
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EBVMA Symposium 2012– Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine: It’s Happening Now!
This is the only event, and the only organization, dedicated entirely to promoting evidence-based veterinary medicine, and I encourage anyone interested to join us in New Orleans! When: Wednesday May 30, 2012, 9am-5pm (One day before the start of the … 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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Book Review: Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions
A brief reference on the web site The Quackometer recently drew my attention to a very short book (really more of a pamphlet, in the historical sense) by Dr. Worthington Hooker, Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions, which I … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
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