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Pfizer reports on fiscal 2009 04 February 2010
Pfizer Animal Health revenues show a significant increase in the final quarter of the 2009 financial year, the period that saw the business complete its merger with Fort Dodge Animal Health as part of the parent company Pfizer 's takeover of Wyeth . Q4 Animal Health revenues were $901 million, a ...
Boehringer first in line for Pfizer/Fort Dodge asset sales...
Posilac drives Elanco growth...
Legal costs and farm sales dent AHI Q2
03 February 2010

The cost of settling a legal dispute on top of falling farm animal sales has prompted a drop in first-half revenues and profitability at national US distributor Animal Health International (AHI). The company has reported a net income of $0.5 million on sales of $331.8m in the six months to ...

Novartis Animal Health posts 4% growth 29 January 2010
Novartis Animal Health , the veterinary medicines business within the Swiss multinational Novartis medical group, has reported fiscal 2009 revenues of $1.101 billion in local currencies, a 4% increase on the rounded 2008 figure of $1.1bn. Animal Health is part of Novartis' Consumer Health division, ...
Posilac drives Elanco growth 29 January 2010
The 2009 financial results from Eli Lilly and Co show that its Elanco Animal Health subsidiary grew by 10% over the year, with the Posilac bovine somatotropin line lifting US sales significantly. Elanco's worldwide animal health sales were $1.21 billion. The US accounted for $672.2 million of the ...
 
NZ and Belgian license for nematicide work
05 February 2010

ParaCo Technology , the company set up by the New Zealand state-owned livestock research body AgResearch (Animal Pharm 674), has signed an international licensing agreement with the Belgian agro-biotech business deVGen NG. The agreement gives ParaCo access to a range of small molecules that could ...

IAH to focus on virus research, not bacteria or parasites...
Researchers investigate Johne's disease resistance...
Chewable wormer tablets from Novartis 02 February 2010
Novartis Animal Health has launched a chewable formulation of its broad-spectrum wormer for dogs, Milbemax (milbemycin oxime + praziquantel). The new tablets are chicken flavored to increase acceptance. According to the company, market research has found that pets’ dislike of conventional tablets ...
Miyarisan Probiotic approved in EU 01 February 2010
Tokyo-based Miyarisan Pharmaceutical Company has obtained EU approval for its novel probiotic, Clostridium butyricum Miyairi 588, as a feed additive for broilers. The approval was the result of collaboration between Miyarisan, Mitsui & Co Deutschland, and several European research partners ...
Japan reports on feed additive use 01 February 2010
The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food (JMAFF) has published figures showing feed additive use for the first half of fiscal 2009. In the six months to September 31st, the use of antimicrobials fell, while the use of other types of additive – particularly amino acids – increased. ...
 
Q1 sales up for MWI
Today

MWI Veterinary Supply , the Idaho-based US animal health product distributor, has reported a 31% rise in first quarter profitability on slightly increased sales. The business made an operating profit of $12.73 million on a turnover of $236.11m in the three months to December 31st 2009, compared to ...

Farm sales hit AHI revenues...
Farm downturn affects AHI sales...
USDA scraps $120m animal ID system
Today

The US Department of Agriculture has abandoned plans for a national animal identification system (NAIS) in response to overwhelming public opposition to the scheme. Instead, agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack has proposed a “new, flexible framework” that will be administered by individual states and ...

UK cat and dog numbers higher than previously thought
08 February 2010

The UK’s domestic cat and dog populations could be much larger than previously reported by industry figures, according to research from the University of Bristol. In a paper published in the Veterinary Record, feline epidemiologist Dr Jane Murray estimates that UK households owned around 10.3 ...

Vets differ in their approaches to animal pain 05 February 2010
A survey of bovine practitioners in Scandinavia has found differing attitudes to animal pain between older and younger veterinarians. Younger vets were more likely to give pain relief, while those with more years behind them had a greater tendency to leave the pain untreated. “In the last 10-15 ...
 
Henry Schein appoints board member Henry Schein, the US distributor of healthcare products to medical, dental and veterinary practices, has appointed Dr Bradley T Sheares to its board of directors. Dr Sheares was most recently chief executive of Reliant Pharmaceuticals , leading the company for a year before its acquisition by ...
New appointments at Cobb-Vantress Cobb-Vantress, the international supplier of broiler breeding stock, has appointed Dr Mitchell Abrahamsen as vice-president of research and development. Dr John Hardiman , who held the position previously, has become chief scientific officer. Dr Abrahamsen has an extensive background in R&D, ...
New president at the AAEP The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) has appointed Dr Nathaniel A White II to the position of president. Dr White, who will also be in charge of AAEP’s various welfare, economic, and medical issues, spent nearly 40 years in academia researching the epidemiology of colic and ...
 
Butler Schein merger a ‘game-changer’ in US distribution
02 February 2010
Ashley Yeo

For some of the delegates at last month’s North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC) in Orlando, Florida, the big news in the US distribution industry came as little surprise. Many of the NAVC crowd had second-guessed that Henry Schein and Butler Animal Health Supply would some day merge, and it ...

 
 
Moredun updates on parasite and bleeding calf work
12 January 2010
Jamie Day

Haemonchus contortus Work at Moredun shows that it is possible to successfully immunize sheep against Barber’s pole worm, (Haemonchus contortus), a blood-sucking roundworm which is probably the world’s most important parasite of sheep and goats. There are currently no commercial vaccines for any ...

Livestock efficiency, not numbers, are key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
11 December 2009
Jamie Day

The two-week Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, which runs from December 7th-18th, is organized by the United Nations, as part of its Framework Convention on Climate Change. This meeting seeks global political support for an updated world protocol for the reduction of those human activities that ...

 
Fort Dodge deal puts poultry on the map for Pfizer Animal Health
27 November 2009
Max Pruetzel-Thomas

The strength of the Fort Dodge poultry business probably was not foremost in Pfizer chief executive Jeff Kindler ’s mind when the decision was made to acquire Wyeth. However, the decision could not have worked out better for Pfizer’s own poultry health unit: there is scarcely any overlap between ...

 
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Pfizer Animal Health acquires multiple product franchises from Schering-Plough
13 November 2009
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One Health summit to integrate human and animal health with the environment
23 November 2009
Barbara Axt

The challenges of integrating animal and human health together with environmental issues were discussed at the first summit of the US One Health Commission, a body recently created to publicize the idea that it no longer makes sense to talk about animal health, human health and environmental issues ...

 
So what can I eat?
15 January 2010
Salina Christmas

If there was one thing to remember the last decade by, I'd say it was the decade of "don't eat". Don't eat meat. Don't eat seafood. Don't eat GM. If the 90s were characterised by the advances in animal cloning (hello, Dolly), the last decade was characterised by chastisements by NGOs and ...

 
 
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International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance
04 February 2011
Vienna, Austria
OIE Global Conference on Veterinary Legislation
07 December 2010
Djerba, Tunisia
26th World Buiatrics Congress 2010
14 November 2010
Santiago, Chile
 
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