BSAVA Companion - 2010, 1, January

Nicola Bromley was the 2009 winner of the BSAVA Frank Beattie Travel Scholarship. She describes how the award of £2000 allowed her to spend time at the ICU department at TUFTS University in New England.

Tough new rules on commercial dog breeding have been promised by the Welsh Assembly to curtail the activities of the Principality’s notorious puppy farmers. John Bonner asks vets what they would like to see in a new licensing system.

Get to grips with endocrinology and learn about medicinal management of lower urinary tract disease.

A vin.com discussion on a Bearded Dragon with egg retention and poor husbandry.

Penney Barber specialized in feline medicine and in particular, research into secondary renal hyperparathyroidism and hyperphosphataemia. The awards made in her name are given for studies into diseases of cats.

Preview of the largest small animal veterinary exhibition in Europe.

After 50 years of publication, JSAP editor Katie Dunn describes the journal of record for small animal general practitioners.

Dr Veronica Yin-Ming Leong is the newly appointed Executive Board member of the WSAVA General Assembly. She will be responsible for the marketing plan and will edit the WSAVA Monthly News and News Bulletin.

Geneva 2010 ‘One Health’ update; New appointments; CE in Latin America, and the FASAVA congress.

Born in 1926 and graduating from Edinburgh in 1948, Lord Soulsby spent time in general practice before embarking on an academic career that included 14 years as Professor of Pathobiology at the University of Pennsylvania and culminated in Honorary Fellowships of the Royal Society of Medicine, the RCVS and the Royal College of Pathologists. He was ennobled in 1990 and in 2009 he received the JA Wight Memorial Award from the BSAVA.