BSAVA Companion - 2014, 3, March

PetSavers dog walk, Professor Michael Day on BSAVA membership and more.

Mission Rabies chose India as a starting point for its vaccination campaign, aiming to innoculate 50,000 dogs across the country. Robin Fearon describes the project.

The BSAVA conducted a membership consultation on the adoption of clinical standards into the Practice Standards Scheme. Sally Everitt reveals what you had to say.

New manuals including BSAVA Manuals of Rabbit Medicine and Rabbit Surgery, Dentistry and Imaging, and the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Radiography and Radiology: A Foundation Manual.

The latest information on new and withdrawn drugs.

An introduction to a CPD weekend on abdominal soft tissue surgery and anaesthesia.

Rob Goggs makes the case that in order to answer major questions about IMHA researchers need to make better use of general practitioners’ experience of the condition rather than relying on the small number of cases that make it to referral centres.

Radiotherapy is becoming both more widely available and more effective. What are the implications for general practitioners and pet owners?

Vets are increasingly affected by international legislation and the movement of animals and the accompanying risk of transmitting disease. An introduction to some of the big issues facing the profession.

As their contemporaries were settling down and buying houses, Andy Fullerton and his partner Kate decided to travel. They didn’t quite dodge work as planned.

To celebrate its 40th anniversary PetSavers has launched the £200 Project and is appealing to the veterinary community to help mark this milestone in style

A brief history of the WSAVA, Estonia declared rabies-free, ASAVA joins ‘sponsor a country’ programme

Colonel Neil Smith is President of the RCVS, Director of the Army Veterinary and Remount Services, Head of the RAVC, and the Queen’s Honorary Veterinary Surgeon.

News from BSAVA regions.

A calendar of forthcoming central and regional CPD events March-June 2014.