Companion Animals Content / Companion Animals Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis Opens Advanced Veterinary Surgery Center /health/news/uc-davis-opens-center-advanced-veterinary-surgery 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis opens the Advanced Veterinary Surgery Center for animals with injuries or disorders of the bones and joints. April 16, 2024 - 9:15am Amy M Quinton /health/news/uc-davis-opens-center-advanced-veterinary-surgery Nation’s No. 1 Veterinary School to Open New ER/ICU /health/news/nations-1-veterinary-school-open-new-ericu 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis School of Veterinary Medicine's teaching hospital will open a new emergency room and intensive care unit in May 2023. April 26, 2023 - 9:00am Amy M Quinton /health/news/nations-1-veterinary-school-open-new-ericu Pet Hearts Can Need Healing, Too /news/pet-hearts-can-need-healing-too <p>It’s not just humans who can suffer from heart disease — it affects our pets, too. And understanding disease in companion animals might help us treat human diseases.</p> <p>Recognized as a pioneer in veterinary cardiology, the University of California, Davis, is developing and testing a number of techniques now widely used in clinics and training generations of residents in the field.</p> <p>While cats and dogs make up most of the heart patients seen at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis, the hospital also regularly examines horses, birds, reptiles, small mammals and zoo animals.</p> February 11, 2016 - 11:19am Karen Michele Nikos /news/pet-hearts-can-need-healing-too Companion animal patients aid scientists’ search for human health solutions /news/companion-animal-patients-aid-scientists%E2%80%99-search-human-health-solutions <p>Dogs and cats may provide their human companions with more than love and affection. From cancer and osteoarthritis to inflammatory bowel and heart disease, animals are afflicted with many of the same ailments found in people.</p> <p>These correlations make companion animals ideal models for naturally occurring diseases, according to a collaborative group of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis researchers in the cover article of the Oct. 7 issue of <em>Science Translational Medicine </em>at <a href="http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/308/308ps21">http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/308/308ps21</a><em> </em></p> October 07, 2015 - 11:25am IET WebDev /news/companion-animal-patients-aid-scientists%E2%80%99-search-human-health-solutions