Feline pulmonary nematodes; new challenges for veterinary practitioners

New Challenges & Opportunities for Operations Practitioners in the New Millennium

The scope of Operations Management (OM) has changed significantly in the last several decades. Starting from Re-order Point (ROP) to Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM), OM has gone through a long way in terms of scope and techniques being used. JIT philosophy, lean production, and agile manufacturing have significantly changed the ways how we design and analyz...

Planned BVD Control Strategy for Veterinary Practitioners

Veterinary pharmacovigilance in Europe: a survey of veterinary practitioners

A web-based survey was conducted by the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe with the support of the European Medicines Agency to gain a better insight into the adverse event reporting habits of veterinary practitioners and the level of information on reported adverse events that flows back to them. It was completed by 3545 veterinarians. The findings indicate marked under-reporting and that t...

Use of information resources by veterinary practitioners.

Veterinary practitioners are often isolated from easy access to information in medical or hospital libraries, making necessary the use of a variety of information resources. A survey was conducted to assess the extent to which various information resources were used within the veterinary profession. Most responding veterinarians were small-animal practitioners who used the veterinary literature...

Drug resistance in nematodes of veterinary importance: a status report.

Reports of drug resistance have been made in every livestock host and to every anthelmintic class. In some regions of world, the extremely high prevalence of multi-drug resistance (MDR) in nematodes of sheep and goats threatens the viability of small-ruminant industries. Resistance in nematodes of horses and cattle has not yet reached the levels seen in small ruminants, but evidence suggests th...