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Winn Feline Foundation awards grants for feline health studies
The Winn Feline Foundation has awarded more than $173,000 in nine grants for feline health studies.
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Guidelines address feline environmental needs
The American Association of Feline Practitioners and International Society of Feline Medicine released new guidelines on
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Feline practitioners release vaccination summary, calicivirus brief
The American Association of Feline Practitioners recently issued a companion summary to the AAFP 2006 Feline Vaccination
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Feline practitioners educate cat owners, themselves
The American Association of Feline Practitioners has stepped up efforts to get cat owners to visit veterinarians more regularly—whether or not the…
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Hill's donates genome data to promote feline health
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc. announced July 20 the donation of its feline genome database to Morris Animal Foundation for the advancement of feline…
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AAFP president sees opportunities in feline medicine
As AAFP president, Dr. Little hopes to help build on and improve current programs
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Delivery device for feline vaccine poses risk
The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine is warning veterinarians and pet owners of a possible risk of femur fracture in…
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Summit produces plan to remedy deficiencies in the care of cats
The recent CATalyst Summit on feline health has resulted in a plan to improve feline veterinary care, increase responsible pet
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Feline-friendly medicine
The American Association of Feline Practitioners is increasing its efforts to promote the concept of cat-friendly practices while increasing its…
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Cat Friendly Practice resounds
The advertisements connect cat owners with the Cat Friendly Practice program from the American Association of Feline Practitioners.
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Call for cat health research grant applications
The Winn Feline Foundation is accepting grant applications for research into feline medical problems.
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AAFP releases vaccination advisory panel report
In August, the American Association of Feline Practitioners made public the 2013 AAFP Feline Vaccination Advisory Panel Report
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AAFP president connects with cats in practices, shelters
Dr. Donna Stephens Manley has worked in feline medicine as a small animal practitioner, as a feline-exclusive practitioner, and now as a staff…
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Elevating cat care
The CATalyst Council, in its mission to champion the cat, has been helping make over veterinary clinics as cat-friendly practices and is seeking to…
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AAFP develops videos on feline-friendly practice
The American Association of Feline Practitioners has developed an eight-part video series
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Feline-friendly handling guidelines aim for perfect veterinary visits
The American Association of Feline Practitioners and International Society of Feline Medicine are recommending simple strategies for making cat visits…
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Solving the cat riddle
Seventy-eight percent of practice owners say cats represent one of the most important missed opportunities for the profession, according to a new…
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Cat practice a passion for AAFP president
The way Dr. Marcus G. Brown sees it, practitioners need to raise the level of feline veterinary care to that for dogs.
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Infectious disease researcher elected to NAS
Dr. Edward A. Hoover (IL ’67), a University Distinguished Professor was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
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Association puts cats front-and-center
Some 350 AAFP members gathered in Atlanta Sept. 20-23 for the association's fall conference on feline urinary tract diseases.
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Partnership launches cat health initiative
The Cat Health Network, a newly formed partnership among some of the most influential feline organizations in the country, approved funding for…
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Banfield finds increase in FIV, borreliosis
Infection with feline immunodeficiency virus increased 48 percent in cats from 2009-2013, according to Banfield
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AAFP president wants to be model for volunteer leaders
Dr. Roberta K. Lillich says she isn't what comes to mind when people think of a leader in the American Association of Feline Practitioners.
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Videos promote care for cats
The American Association of Feline Practitioners has developed a three-part video series to promote routine veterinary care
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AAHA, AAFP release guidelines on fluid therapy
The American Animal Hospital Association and the American Association of Feline Practitioners on May 1 released the new