News-Gazette (Sept. 8) – The program is using a grant from Best Friends Animal Society to cover costs to vaccinate, microchip and spay or neuter 500 feral cats, with the first 150 cats scheduled for today mostly coming from area shelters and animal-control programs. According to Dr. Loukia Agapis, head of the UI College of...
ciLiving (WCIA-TV; Sept. 14) – Dr. Lee Ann Lyons gave an update in the i-TICK surveillance program she has been managing throughout 2018. https://www.wcia.com/ciliving/i-tick-study-conducted-with-university-of-illinois/1444795313
ciLiving (WCIA-TV; Sept. 12) – Meet Delphine, an opossum that is unreleasable to the wild because it was habituated to humans. Delphine from the Wildlife Clinic at the U of I comes to visit! We're learning about a furry resident at the Wildlife Medical Clinic at Illinois as well as details on their upcoming open...
News-Gazette (Sept. 9) – The first annual University of Illinois Veterinary Hackathon, coming on Wednesday, Oct. 10, will bring together dozens of divergent viewpoints to “hack” the intransigent problem of cats going outside the box. http://www.news-gazette.com/living/2018-09-10/pet-talk-thinking-inside-the-box.html
UPI (Sept. 4) – “I found for the first time that the mechanics of how DNA is packaged inside a virus determine the course of infection,” said Alex Evilevitch, professor of pathobiology at the University of Illinois. https://www.upi.com/Virus-potency-depends-on-the-shape-of-its-DNA/9941536075763/
Herald & Review (Decatur, Ill.; Sept. 2) – Dr. Elizabeth Maxwell, who has recently completed a residency in small animal surgery at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Urbana, has been investigating one treatment option for feline injection site sarcoma during her three years at Illinois. https://herald-review.com/lifestyles/pets/pet-health-new-technique-studied-for-treating-cancer-in-cats/article_19ed1748-6063-5076-8689-811bbacab69f.html
JAVMA (Sept. 1) – Phi Zeta, the international honor society of veterinary medicine, recently presented awards to authors of two research manuscripts among submissions from the Phi Zeta chapters at 30 U.S. and two Caribbean veterinary colleges. The basic sciences award went to Dr. Jamie Stewart (Illinois ’13) and the clinical sciences award was presented...
News-Gazette (Aug. 26) – “Annual examinations are essential to feline health,” said Debbie Stratton, a student at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine and president of the college’s student chapter of the American Association of Feline Practitioners. “The annual physical exam provides screening for diseases that may otherwise go unnoticed. When disease is...
WCIA-TV News (Aug. 22) – Dr. Caroline Tonozzi, a clinical assistant professor in the Veterinary Clinical Medicine Department at the University of Illinois, says if a family pet is poisoned, the owners have to act quickly. https://www.wcia.com/news/local-news/family-warns-others-after-dog-is-poisoned/1389744264
Journal-Gazette/Times-Courier (Mattoon, Ill.; Aug. 18) – Dr. Drew Sullivan, director of the Medical District Veterinary Clinic at Illinois, a Chicago-based veterinary clinic operated by the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, was on the front lines of the initial outbreak of a new strain of canine influenza that first appeared in the United States...