December 27, 2010
Abbott Diabetes Care announced on December 23, 2010 that it has initiated a recall of 359 lots (approximately 359 million strips) of Precision Xtra®, Precision Xceed Pro®, MediSense® Optium™, Optium™, OptiumEZ and ReliOn® Ultima Blood Glucose Test Strips in the United States and Puerto Rico.
The test strips are used with Abbott’s Precision Xtra, [...]
October 30, 2010: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on October 27, 2010 the addition of a boxed warning to the label of two METACAM® (meloxicam) products. The drug’s manufacturer, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (B.I.V.I.), changed the label to include:
WARNING Repeated use of meloxicam in cats has been associated with acute renal failure and [...]
July 8, 2010: A cat in Britain is doing well several months after having been implanted with prosthetic feet after an accident with a combine harvester had severed both his hind paws. The three-hour procedure was performed by neuro-orthopedic veterinary surgeon Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick, at an animal hospital in Surrey, England.
The cat, Oscar, was fitted [...]
May 2010: Cytauxzoonosis, a deadly blood disease sometimes called Bobcat Fever, has infected several cats in the USA recently. Cytauxzoonosis is a blood parasite, whose natural host is the bobcat. The disease is spread by ticks feeding on the bobcats, then those ticks go on to feed on domestic cats, spreading the parasite. The disease [...]
FDA approves first human insulin for veterinary use
Nov 20, 2009: The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica’s PROZINC™ (protamine zinc recombinant human insulin) for veterinary use for cats with diabetes mellitus. PROZINC was created specifically with cats in mind. PROZINC™ is an aqueous protamine zinc (PZI) [...]
Cat in Oregon, US, died from H1N1 virus (swine flu)
Nov. 2009: A cat in Oregon, US, caught the H1N1 virus (swine flu) from a human. The cat died four days after having been brought to the veterinarian. The cat, Buddy Lou, had heavily labored breathing due to fluid build up in the [...]
Cats have caught H1N1 Virus (Swine flu) from Humans
Nov. 2009: The first confirmed case of H1N1 virus in a cat was made on Nov. 2, 2009 in a 13-year-old cat in Iowa, USA. The cat caught the disease from humans in the household. The cat’s owners were ill with flu-like symptoms, and the cat developed [...]
Convenia- New long-lasting antibiotic injection for cats and dogs
June 2008: Convenia® (cefovecin sodium), is a new antibiotic for cats (and dogs) that provides 14 days worth of antibiotic treatment in just one injectable dose!
Developed by Pfizer Animal Health, Convenia is for treatment of the most common skin infections, and for wound abscesses, in cats and [...]
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