Companion Animal Health Fund

REMINDER:
WCVM's Veterinary Medical Centre (VMC) is CLOSED on Tuesday, July 1, but emergency services are available for small and large animals 24 hours a day.

⚠️ Emergency? Call in advance (306-966-7126) to speak with our triage team. ⚠️

Regular clinical services are available on Monday, June 30 and will resume on Wednesday morning, July 2.

Because of high demand and limited staff, the hospital must limit its small animal after-hour service. The VMC clinical team is restricting its overnight patient intake to life-threatening cases (red zone) only from 10 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. each night until further notice.

Whenever caseload and staffing permits, the clinical team will see patients that fall under the urgent condition (orange zone).

The VMC triage team will always prioritize life-threatening or critical cases. Visit vmc.usask.ca for more information about our emergency services.

📸 Christina Weese

Growing up around all kinds of animals in his hometown in Japan, Dr. Arata Matsuyama (DVM, PhD) knew he was destined for a career in veterinary medicine.

Matsuyama, who joined the faculty last fall, is now making a significant impact in the college’s veterinary oncology program.

As part of his research efforts, Matsuyama is looking at the effects of carboplatin chemotherapy on dogs with cancer, exploring how an anti-nausea drug can prevent gastrointestinal-related side effects in canine lymphoma patients undergoing chemotherapy, and seeing if PET-CT scans can identify patterns associated with lung cancer spreading.

Matsuyama is also part of the Comparative Oncology Research Group and hopes to use his knowledge to contribute to human cancer research.

Read more: https://ow.ly/7KJZ50PqfzF

In extremely rare cases, cats can experience adverse reactions after being vaccinated.

This is what happened to a cat, Bart, after he received vaccinations for feline viral rhinotracheitis, calicivirus and panleukopenia (FVRCP), rabies, and feline leukemia virus (FeLV) last June.

Dr. Karen Sheehan (DVM), a clinical associate at the ’s Veterinary Medical Centre, stresses that such adverse effects shouldn’t steer pet owners away from vaccinating their cats.

Read more about Bart’s story, and how adverse reactions to vaccinations occur, here: https://ow.ly/EI0N50Pqfub

Check out this article written by vet student Madlyn Lung, who researched the most effective way to deliver blood transfusions to canine patients in need.

Click here to read more: https://wcvmtoday.usask.ca/articles/2023/02/blood-on-the-double.php

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