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Jun 17, 2010

NOAA Requests CVM Experts Participate in Oil Spill Response

Oil Spill Request: The North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine received an emergency request from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for marine animal experts to assist in the Gulf Coast oil spill response. Dr. Greg Lewbart, professor of aquatic animal medicine; Dr. Craig Harms, an associate professor of aquatic, wildlife, and zoologic… 

Jun 8, 2010

Nixa – February 2002 – January 2010

[attribution]Renee Zimmerman[/attribution] In 2002 I went for surgical removal of abdominal adhesions and overnight hospitalization. I woke three months later in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit on a ventilator. Imagine my surprise! My surgery had gone horribly wrong. A loop of perforated bowel went unnoticed at closing, and infection was soon followed by total body… 

Jun 7, 2010

VTH Patient Survives Infectious Disease

NBC-17 did a report (http://wake.mync.com/site/Wake/news/story/52020/cats-in-north-carolina-at-risk-of-potentially-fatal-disease/) on a Veterinary Teaching Hospital patient that was diagnosed and treated successfully for the deadly tick-transmitted infectious disease cytauxzoonosis. Without proper treatment, the disease, which is on the rise in North Carolina, has a mortality rate close to 100%. Symptoms: High fever, lethargy, a lack of appetite. What to do:… 

Jun 3, 2010

CCMTR Laboratory Participates in ‘One Health’ Cancer Study

Golden retrievers are highly susceptible to cancers arising in the blood, lymphatic, and vascular systems. Dr. Matthew Breen, a professor of genomics at North Carolina State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, is collaborating with scientists at the University of Minnesota, the Broad Institute in Massachusetts and Uppsala University in Sweden to find out why. The… 

May 25, 2010

Developing Practice Guidelines for Canine Atopic Dermatitis

Dr. Thierry Olivry, professor of Immunodermatology at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, led the development and is the lead author of the "2010 Practice Guidelines for Canine Atopic Dermatitis,” the open-source standard of care recommendations proposed by the International Task Force on Canine Atopic Dermatitis. The peer-reviewed guidelines—a first for the… 

May 20, 2010

VTH Warns of Tick-Transmitted Disease Danger to Cats

Clinicians in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at North Carolina State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine are advising cat owners and their veterinarians about an increase in a deadly tick-transmitted infectious disease that without proper treatment has a mortality rate close to 100%. The disease, Cytauxzoonosis, is related to malaria and is caused by the parasite,… 

May 20, 2010

Microneedle Research May Foster Medical Technology 

A team led by researchers from North Carolina State University has developed two new approaches for incorporating antimicrobial properties into microneedles—vanishingly thin needles that hold great promise for use in portable medical devices. Researchers expect the findings to spur development of new medical applications using microneedles. Microneedles cause less pain, tissue damage and skin inflammation… 

May 8, 2010

Julie Nettifee-Osborne, Research Technician, Department of Clinical Sciences

May 8, 2010

Mitsu Suyemoto, Research Specialist, Population Health and Pathobiology

May 8, 2010

Tom Krupa, CVM Webmaster, College Relations