CVM In the Media
CVM In the Media
In the Media
Articles about the college from around the world.
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04.29.2019
WSVMA’s HEAL-WA legislation signed by the Governor
Veterinarians in private practice generally don’t have access to large collections of journals similar to human physicians and as a result, they rely on textbooks, conferences and online discussion forums like VIN for new information. Well, all that’s about to change.
WSVMA
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04.29.2019
Tails of comfort
Robert Slack ’71 DVM thoroughly enjoyed his early days as a veterinarian. An adventurous man, he chose to begin his career in Australia and, later, traveled back to the United States on a camping trip through Iran, Turkey, India, and Pakistan. He even stopped off to run with the bulls in Pamplona.
WSU Magazine
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04.29.2019
Medicine that lands on all fours
It’s a cold February morning. Flat gray clouds blanket the sun and snow berms line the streets on the WSU Spokane campus. Outside the University’s Veterinary Specialty Teaching Clinic, several people stand hunched inside their coats, their breath misting in the frigid air.
WSU Magazine
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04.26.2019
UW, WSU community partnership: Improving the health of homeless youth and their pets
Rivals in the sports arena, the state’s two largest public universities have teamed up off the field to improve the health of young adults experiencing homelessness – and their pets.
UW News
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04.26.2019
Dean of WSU veterinary college to step down
The dean of Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Bryan Slinker (WSU '80), will step down at the end of 2019.
JAVMA News
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04.11.2019
WSU Rabies Free Tanzania launches vaccination decentralization trial
Washington State University Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health (Allen School)-Rabies Free Tanzania announces a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded program, expected to radically improve dog vaccination delivery to address human rabies deaths in East Africa. Rabies kills nearly 60,000 people each year, primarily children from dog bites.
WSU Insider
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04.11.2019
A social justice perspective on access to human rabies vaccines
Rabies kills tens of thousands of people every year despite being entirely vaccine preventable.
ScienceDirect
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04.10.2019
WSU Looking Into New Cases Of Elk Hoof Disease
Washington State University is researching Elk Hoof Disease and trying to determine not only why it’s spreading across the Northwest, but if the livestock industry needs to be concerned. After hunters recently spotted elk with the disease in the Olympic Peninsula, near Olympic National Park, that marks positive cases reported in southeast, southwest and now northwest Washington, as well as Oregon and Idaho.
Washington Ag Network
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04.08.2019
In a Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections
Overuse of the medicines is not just a problem in rich countries. Throughout the developing world antibiotics are dispensed with no prescription required.
NY Times
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04.08.2019
Scientists search for answers to hoof disease
Across the state, elk are limping from elk hoof disease. Many of them even die from it. WSU researchers are now trying to determine the cause.
Daily Evergreen
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04.03.2019
WSU discovery could aid in battle of debilitative and deadly inflammation
Most, if not all, infections and diseases in animals and people are met with some level of the body’s own inflammatory response. Sometimes this inflammatory response crosses a line from being protective and useful to becoming debilitative or even deadly.
WSU Insider
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04.01.2019
2019 Smerdon/Reeves Lecture
Come hear six exciting experts in the areas of DNA repair and chromatin speak about compelling new developments in the area of basic cancer research at the 2019 Smerdon/Reeves Lecture on Thursday, April 4, at the Residence Inn in Pullman.
SMB Website
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04.01.2019
Scientist Tasked with Finding Hoof Rot Facts
Dr. Margaret Wild faces a tall task. She heads up efforts at Washington State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine to find answers behind the mysterious elk hoof disease. Once limited to western Washington, there are now cases reported in eastern Washington as well as northern Oregon and western Idaho.
RMEF Elk Network
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04.01.2019
As cases of elk hoof disease spread, WSU veterinarians leading research efforts
As elk hoof disease cases continue to spread, now crossing the Cascades with a case being found recently in Eastern Washington and Western Idaho, veterinarians at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine are gearing up for additional extensive research efforts.
KXLY.com
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03.29.2019
Chytrid’s frog-killing toll has been tallied — and it’s bad
A skin fungus that has plagued frogs and toads worldwide now holds the title of being the world’s worst invasive killer, displacing cats and rodents.
Science News
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03.29.2019
WSU students’ device to diagnose autism wins awards
A device developed by two WSU students to help doctors diagnose autism in very young children was honored at an annual health innovations competition recently.
WSU News
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03.28.2019
2+2 programs add up
Josh Link, a Pennsylvania native, found his home in Alaska's veterinary community. Link will be one of the first to graduate from a 2+2 program that connects the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and the Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences in May. He plans to return to Fairbanks as a general practitioner.
AVMA