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Defra cuts should spare UK’s “Cinderella” animal health budget
21 May 2010

While the UK waits with bated breath as to how the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition will allocate the promised initial tranche of £6 billion of cuts across all public sector budgets, farmers are agitating for the axe to fall nowhere near animal health. The new Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

Don’t forget AH and welfare in AB action plans
23 April 2010

The aim of phasing out the use of antibiotics in animals may sound good in principle, but in practice, other elements come into the equation. CVMP member Dr Karolina Törneke last month spoke of general aims to eventually make antibiotics in animals superfluous (see www.animalpharmnews.com 14 ...

Stability the watchword as prudent antimicrobial use gains ground in Europe
16 April 2010

“In the last year, little has happened and not much is set to change in the future.” It’s hardly a statement to get the pulses racing or stir interest, regardless of the context. Except maybe when we are talking about the use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals and the EU’s regulatory ...

Butler Schein merger a ‘game-changer’ in US distribution 02 February 2010
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 ...
Communication key for better availability of animal medicines 18 January 2010
What happens next on the proposed new POM-EA (extended administration) veterinary medicines category will be a major talking point at the forthcoming annual meeting of AHDA, the UK Animal Health Distributors’ Association. The proposal has been given short shrift so far. The Veterinary Medicines ...
Vet surgery charges and public expectations 13 November 2009
Veterinarians have long since given up being surprised by fee-paying clients’ complaints about practice charges for treating companion animals. The subtext of these complaints, which are mostly born out of ignorance of the actual costs incurred, is: “What are practices doing to justify their fee ...
 
Third link in E coli O157 awareness chain will boost preventive measures
29 June 2010

Interim results of a three-year project designed to gauge the public’s knowledge of Escherichia coli O157, in a bid to reduce cases of the infection in rural UK communities, have produced some interesting findings. Two-thirds of visitors to the countryside have never heard of E coli O157, and one ...

US to take European road on antibiotic growth promoters?
10 March 2010

There is nothing ambiguous about the fact that antibiotics are becoming less effective in treating bacterial infections in humans. This worrying development is a major concern for public health bodies around the globe, with cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infection ...

A different way of appraising innovation and identifying disease control needs
09 March 2010

As the groundbreaking animal disease research initiative DISCONTOOLS crosses the halfway point of its four-year lifespan, thoughts are beginning to turn to who will pick up the baton when it comes to its scheduled end. The concept is large-scale: with almost €1m of funding granted under the EU’s ...

The quiet before the storm? Leading animal health company sales in 2008
19 June 2009

2008 may be the last time several of the leading animal health companies merit their own stand-alone entries in the sales rankings. Merck’s planned merger with Schering-Plough, announced in spring 2009, will accelerate its transformation into a global healthcare leader, but what shape will the ...

 
 
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