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Back in April, our monthly newsletter highlighted the pitfalls of diagnosing pancreatitis in our pets. Despite histopathology being the gold standard for a definitive diagnosis, this is [...]

Urine is often regarded as a stinky waste product from metabolism, responsible for yellowish stains on our clients carpets or our waiting room floors. But urine can provide us with much more [...]

What can be worse than a disease with non-specific clinical signs (and occasionally not even those) that can evolve into a life-threatening condition? This is exactly what we are asked to deal [...]

Allergen-specific immunotherapy (ASIT), or hypo sensitisation, is a recommended treatment in cases of atopic dermatitis. ASIT has practically no adverse effects and is the only treatment that can [...]

Recently, many veterinary publications have unveiled the importance of intestinal microbiome and novel tests to further investigate this are currently offered by diagnostic laboratories. But what [...]

The preanalytical phase is a very important component of laboratory medicine. This phase includes all those steps that occur in the practice such as specimen collection, handling, storage and [...]

Thanks to all the vets and nurses who joined us last month for a very special CPD night organised by BattLab and the Warwickshire Veterinary Clinical Club (WVCC). Over 50 participants joined us [...]

By Dr Carmen Lorente, DVM, PhD, DipECVD. EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Dermatology Most cases of canine pyoderma are caused by Staphylococcus pseudintermedius. Despite Staphylococci [...]

Thanks to all the vets who joined us last month for the fourth (and last for 2020) of our free Battlab evening seminars focused on canine mast cell tumours and brilliantly presented by Dr [...]

These pictures are from an aspirate of an upper eyelid lesion in a 2-year-old Cocker Spaniel dog (Wright Giemsa, 50x) (macroscopic picture courtesy of Ana Lara García, RVC, London).  What is your [...]