As veterinarians, we’re often the bearers of difficult news.  This Memorial Day, I experienced the heartbreak that comes with ...

Heart disease is still the number one leading cause of death in the United States, with cancer following as the second most prevalent cause. It may surprise you that cancer is also a disease that ...

Rather than pursuing aggressive surgical intervention, Amos learned about a clinical trial at the veterinary college on ...

Neutering a dog is one of the owner's primary responsibilities, but while it was once believed that this procedure should be ...

they can develop into a mast cell tumor — one of the most common types of tumors in dogs. Although they typically develop on the skin, mast cell tumors can also grow internally in the gut ...

A drug now being studied in human trials to kill cancerous tumors, is already approved and helping animals. Its Australian manufacturer has seen great success treating dogs with mast cell tumors.

Case report: Resolution of malignant canine mast cell tumor using ketogenic metabolic therapy alone. Front Nutr. 2023 Mar 28;10:1157517. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1157517. PMID: 37057065; PMCID ...

“I've seen a lot of dogs with mast cell tumors over the years, and only 1 dog had a mast cell tumor in its thorax, and that dog, we found it on necropsy—it was not visible on a chest X ray, so a chest ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have updated their guidelines on when to neuter 40 popular dog varieties by breed and sex. Their recent paper in Frontiers in Veterinary Science ...

A new UC Davis study updates guidelines on when to neuter or spay a dog to avoid health risks. (Claudio Gennari via Flickr CC by 4.0) Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have updated ...