WSU’s Dash Dog receiving cancer treatment at campus veterinary hospital
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Horse’s freak accident not fatal thanks to WSU veterinarians
A sliver of bone and equine veterinarians kept hope alive for the colt following an extensive crushing injury
Meet the Veterinary Teaching Hospital team: Holly Cummings
Holly Cummings is a technician in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s Diagnostic Imaging Department, where she helps to support nearly every service in the hospital to diagnose patients and develop the best treatment plans.
3D prints may guide vets through risky brain surgery
3D printing is being used at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital to plan and even simplify complex procedures.
An MRI helps solve a dog’s medical mystery
Shortly after returning from a business trip in the fall of 2015, Lauren Grabelle found her dog, “Sugar,” dragging herself across the floor. Her hind limbs were lifeless. Lauren became alarmed.
Meet Mr. Bear: One of thousands of patients that has been helped because of MRI
After noticing an odd lump on his dog’s head in the spring of 2013, Joel Greenhalgh of British Columbia, Canada, took Mr. Bear, a then 11-year-old Australian Sheppard-Rottweiler mix, to his local veterinarian. At first the advice was to watch and see, but when it didn’t go away, his veterinarian took a biopsy. Mr. Bear had cancer.
A new gamma camera makes lameness diagnoses easier
The exact cause of lameness in horses can sometimes be difficult to find. But thanks to a generous donor, the WSU College of Veterinary Medicine’s new gamma camera will make diagnosis easier.
“The gamma camera is essential for equine orthopedic lameness,” says Dr. Kelly Farnsworth assistant professor in WSU’s Veterinary Clinical Sciences department. “Localized lameness is difficult to radiograph.”
