“Comparative Medicine” may be defined as a field of study concentrating on similarities and differences between veterinary medicine and human medicine. However, this is a redundant definition that needs to be updated, modernized, and refined. The nineteenth century German physician Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow, widely known as the “Father of Modern Pathology” and the founder of the science of vet...

Veterinary public health is an essential field in public health activities, based upon veterinary skills, knowledge and resources and which aims to protect and improve human health and welfare. This discipline has evolved through three stages, beginning with the fight against animal diseases, moving on to include meat inspection and control of zoonoses and now encompassing a much broader health...

Veterinary Herbal Medicine (VHM) is a comprehensive, current, and informative discipline on the utilization of herbs in veterinary practice. Driven by chemistry but progressively directed by pharmacology and the clinical sciences, drug research has contributed more to address the needs for innovative veterinary medicine for curing animal diseases. However, research into veterinary medicine of v...

3 Antonis Vlassopoulos MSc, Mike EJ Lean Prof* and Emilie Combet PhD 4 Human Nutrition, School of Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, 5 University of Glasgow , Glasgow, G3 8SJ, UK 6 7 Antonis Vlassopoulos: Human Nutrition, Yorkhill Hospital, School of Medicine, College of 8 Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow. 9 Email:a.vlassopoulos.1@resear...

Mosa M. Bahnass 1, Ismail S. El-Shahawy 2,* and Elshaima M. Fawzi 3 1, 3 Department of Animal Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt. 2 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt. Present affiliation: 1,2 Department of Applied Medical Sciences, Community College, Najran University, Najran, S...

Despite the fact that health communication is a discipline developed only recently, its importance in human medicine is well recognized. However, it is less considered in veterinary medicine, even if it has the potential to improve public health because of the role of veterinary medicine in public health. For this reason, an One Health approach is useful for communication as well. This approach...

1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal, P.O. Box 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 3P8 2Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky, 108 Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, Lexington, KY 40546-0099, USA 3Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University Mosier Hall K-...

The proportion of multidrug resistant bacteria causing infections in animals has continuously been increasing. While the relevance of ESBL (extended spectrum beta-lactamase)-producing Enterobacteriaceae spp. and MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is unquestionable, knowledge about multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in veterinary medicine is scarce. This is a worrisome s...

Sleep in the horse is essential for its overall health. Sleep disorders and lack of sleep can seriously compromise horses’ physical activity and even worse, quality of life. Limited information and lack of understanding of sleep and associated disorders may lead to inaccurate diagnosis and management. Authors’ addresses: Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, Tupper Hall 2108, One Shields Ave...

Laboratory of Public Health, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, and Institute for Animal Experiment, School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, and Department of Neurology and Department of Respiratory Disease, Hakodate Medical Association Hospital,...