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Telemedicine today, and the future of virtual health care

From the Connected Care Center central hub for ICU patients, to telegenetics, Penn practitioners are looking to the future of convenient care.

Going out of the box to learn to treat exotic creatures

Veterinary students interested in wildlife, zoo, and exotics medicine get creative—and driven—to get the training opportunities they need to advance.

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Solving sports medicine’s trickiest equine mysteries

The Equine Performance and Evaluation Facility has made diagnosing equine performance on a clinical level much more accessible since it opened six years ago.

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Physical rehab helps ‘rock star’ Ranger walk again

After successful surgery to relieve spinal compression, four-year-old Australian cattle dog Ranger faced just a 50 percent chance of ever regaining use of his back legs. Penn Vet's rehab team aimed to get the pup back on his feet.

Treating spinal pain with ‘engineered living tissue’ moves closer to reality

A multidisciplinary team at Penn successfully demonstrated the feasibility of an innovative new disc replacement made of living material.

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Is it safe for your dog to drink from the toilet?

The School of Veterinary Medicine’s Shelley Rankin warned of the hazards of letting dogs drink toilet water. In addition to the possibility of pets getting sick, Rankin said, “there are a whole bunch of diseases that we call zoonoses, that are technically present in animals and can be transmitted to humans.”

Melissa Hopkins leans over to give a treat to her dog Cedar as instructor Meghan Ramos and other class participants look on

Sniffing for science

In the “Citizen Science” course at the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Working Dog Center, Meghan Ramos and Tessa Seales work with dog owners to enhance their pups’ scent detection skills, with an eye toward bolstering the Center’s research.

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Spooky: Dogs snatch Halloween limelight from black cats, bats

The School of Veterinary Medicine’s James Serpell described the relationship between dog owners and their animals as a “kind of dress rehearsal for parenting” and the popularity of pet costumes as “part of a national trend toward treating pets, especially dogs, as junior family members.”

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Staging the plague

Eighty-one students training in a diversity of health professions worked with regional and federal agencies to confront an imagined outbreak scenario centered around bubonic plague in Philadelphia.

Want to reduce emissions? Start in the gut of a cow

As concern about climate change rises, Dipti Pitta of the School of Veterinary Medicine is working to develop innovative strategies to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

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