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Unique VET Festival will return for a second year
Presentations are held in outdoor marquees rather than lecture theatres to create a fun, relaxed environment. Noel Fitzpatrick offers a...

BVA react to Defra cuts
Defra’s operating budgets have been cut by 15 per cent. Animal welfare ‘noticeably absent’ from the announcement The BVA...

Nominations now open for RCVS and VN Councils 2016
The election period will start around mid-March and run until 5pm on Friday, 29 April 2016. Nominations now open for...

Suffolk road named after respected vet
Donald Mackintosh Way leads up to Ipswich Veterinary Centre, a new, state-of-the-art hospital. New veterinary centre built on ‘Donald Mackintosh...

RCVS urged to ‘blacklist’ homeopathy
An online petition has been launched urging the RCVS to 'blacklist' homeopathic treatments, so they can no longer be prescribed...

Pigeons identify cancerous tissue on x-rays
The pigeons were able to generalise what they learned, correctly identifying tumours in unseen microscope images. Could help improve image-based...