February 2025

News-Gazette (Feb. 23) – According to Tobias Ellis, head farrier at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, a long-standing practice was to follow an eight-week trim schedule so that the nail holes would…
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Cleburne Times-Review (Feb. 23) – Dr. Alyssa Baratta-Martin, a veterinarian at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital, says, “About 50% or more of my procedures at the moment involve dental health.” Some patients offer…
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News Medical (Feb. 19) – A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with the same mutation, a rare finding of a direct genetic link to psychosis,…
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WVIK-AM (with audio; Rock Island, Illinois; Feb. 18) —University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Wildlife Medical Clinic Director Dr. Stephany Lewis says waterfowl birds are the most susceptible to spreading avian influenza. They migrate and could come…
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Association for Women in Science | Chicago (Feb. 18) – Dr. Kim Selting is a veterinary radiation oncologist and a cancer treatment researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “Even though I’m 30 years into…
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Effingham Daily News (Feb. 17) – The bird was collected on Feb. 11 in Effingham and submitted for testing at the University of Illinois Veterinary Diagnostic Lab. https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/local_news/hawk-tests-positive-for-bird-flu-in-effingham-county Also in * WCIA-TV News (Feb. 16)https://www.wcia.com/news/effingham-county/bird-tests-positive-for-avian-flu-in-effingham-co/

CathLabDigest (Feb. 13) – Over the past two years, Dr. Ryan Fries and his colleagues at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital have performed more than 40 interventional procedures to repair diseased heart valves in…
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