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Category Archives: Science-Based Veterinary Medicine
New Survey: What Do Vets Think About Evidence-Based Medicine?
A couple of years ago, I conducted a small pilot survey of veterinarians to investigate their attitudes and knowledge concerning evidence-based medicine (EBM). While not a representative sample of the profession, the survey identified some interesting issues worthy of further … Continue reading
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New Review Finds Little Evidence that Nutraceuticals Help Animals with Arthritis
I have written extensively about various supplements and herbal treatments for arthritis. For the most part the evidence seems weak for all of these products, though there are a couple of suggestive studies that might lead to demonstrably effective treatments … Continue reading
Aural Hematoma Review and Other New Info from the EBVMA
The Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine Association (EBVMA) is continuing to try and support evidence-based medicine for veterinarians, and the latest activity in that effort is producing a series of brief, pragmatic literature reviews on common clinical problems and therapies. The first … Continue reading
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Guidelines for Minimizing Commercial Influence in Veterinary Medicine
The potential bias introduced into research, medical education, and individual clinician judgment by relationships with commercial entities is a perennial and serious issue in medicine, including the veterinary field. While critics of mainstream veterinary medicine frequently raise this issue when … Continue reading
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Stem Cell Therapy Miracle–Maybe
I’ve written numerous times about veterinary stem cell therapies, and I’ve been quite critical about the proliferation of such interventions in veterinary medicine. This is not because I don’t see great hope in stem cell therapies, for I do. But … Continue reading
Stem Cell Researchers Caution Against Using Unproven Stem Cell Therapies
One of the therapies that has arisen within conventional veterinary medicine, but which shares many of the worrisome features of an alternative approach, is stem cell therapy. Though it is a plausible intervention with promising preclinical evidence to support investigating … Continue reading
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Chemotherapy Doesn’t Work? Not so Fast….
I’ve written a bit about “integrative” veterinary cancer care previously and how it is often marketed with claims that are unsupported by evidence. A recent example of this is a post on the Huffington Post blog in which a prominent … Continue reading
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Evidence-Based Guidelines For Pet Care
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) recently released a set of Canine and Feline Preventative Healthcare Guidelines. The primary reason for doing so seems to be evidence from several surveys that suggest the … Continue reading
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What Does “Scientifically Proven” Really Mean?
Science as a Brand I think of science as primarily an approach to knowledge; both a philosophy and collection of methods for developing an understanding of reality. Of course science is imperfect, both in itself and in how it is … Continue reading
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From Bloodletting to Evidence-Based Medicine by Dr. Brad Hanna
This is a clear and compelling description of how “Traditional Western Medicine” developed and functioned exactly as much alternative medicine does today, on the basis of tradition and anecdote, and how it was abandoned in favor of scientific medicine. Dr. … Continue reading