In the News

News-Gazette (March 10) – Dr. Tina Wismer, the medical director for the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center and adjunct instructor at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, has advised veterinarians and pet owners…
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WCIA-TV News (March 8) – An emotional support animal can be a bunny, it can be a sugar glider it can be a rat and people can attach and feel comfortable in the presence of…
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WCIA-TV News (March 7) – A new program is helping low-income people take care of their pets. The UI is offering a community medicine program. They hope it will lower the number of animals taken…
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WILL-AM The 21st Show (March 5) – Two Illinois scientists are hoping to make a difference for the Humboldt penguin native to Peru: Dr. Mike Adkesson, vice president of clinical medicine for the Chicago Zoological…
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News-Gazette (March 3) – With the interest in reptiles as pets expanding, Dr. Sarah Reich, a veterinarian who sees wildlife and exotic pets at the UI College of Veterinary Medicine, has some advice for current…
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UI7-TV (March 1) – Volunteers from the Wildlife Medical Clinic introduced Hazel the Eastern box turtle and Thistle the American kestrel to the campus on the Good Morning Illini live TV show.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYeiDggR-K8&list=UUNvaH1rL6_EBJsv0_6_FCTQ&index=7&t=0s

ciLiving (WCIA-TV; March 1) – Drs. Jonathan Stack and Gabi Wallace, both cardiology residents at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, and Lauren Phillips, a fourth-year veterinary student, told the story of Olive, a poodle puppy that…
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Daily Illini (Feb. 25) – Professor Jodi Flaws and Katie Chiang, doctoral student in comparative biosciences, co-authored a study, have found that feeding mice doses of phthalates, found in plastics, decreases fertility in female mice…
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News-Gazette (Feb. 24) – Dr. Clarissa Souza, a veterinarian in the dermatology service at the UI Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Urbana, says pets with allergies come to the hospital every single day. “Allergies are definitely…
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