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I am preparing a series of lectures for an upcoming conference, and it has given me a chance to reflect on some of the core ideas that have always driven this blog– the challenges created by our human limitations and the strategies we have develop to mitigate them.
This lecture attempts to illustrate what evidence-based medicine is and, perhaps more importantly, why we ne...

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I was recently privileged to give a brief talk at the Hill’s Global Symposium focusing on aging in veterinary patients. This is a very quick summary of merely one example of how understanding aging mechanisms can create opportunities for developing treatment to give our patients longer, healthier lives.

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I have written and spoken often about the influence of the anti-vaccine movement on veterinarians and pet owners. Recently, I was interviewed along with other science-base diets for an article in the New York Times bringing some mainstream media attention to this problem.

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Been busy, but….

Long-time readers will have noticed I haven’t been posting much here lately. Partly, that is due to all the other work I am doing, both in the clinic and as part of the canine aging research I am involved in.

It is also somewhat due to a natural decline in enthusiasm for the game of pseudoscience whack-a-mole, where I try to pre bunk or debunk both the old classics...

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