by Ken DeRouchie | Mar 29, 2008 | Articles, Issue 07, Newsletter, Optometry, Practice Areas
Survey Says Adults Not Making the Grade When it Comes to Eye Care Knowledge Nearly One-Third of America’s Children Have Never Been to the Eye Doctor As millions of students nationwide head back to school, the American Optometric Association’s first American Eye-Q...
by Ken DeRouchie | Mar 29, 2008 | Articles, Issue 07, Newsletter, Practice Areas, Veterinary
Projected Serious Food Supply Veterinarian Shortage Poses Threat to Industry, Society – America’s livestock and meat industries have one of the world’s best health and safety records, but that status may be threatened in the years ahead because of a projected...
by Ken DeRouchie | Mar 29, 2008 | Articles, Issue 07, Newsletter, Practice Areas, Veterinary
Origins Traced To Wolves Centuries Ago A new study in the journal Cell provides evidence that a form of cancer afflicting dogs has spread from one individual to another by the transmission of the tumor cells themselves. The disease demonstrates how a cancer cell can...
by Ken DeRouchie | Mar 29, 2008 | Articles, Issue 07, Newsletter, Practice Areas, Veterinary
Zoonotic disease control strategies discussed at 2006 ACVIM forum As global security issues surrounding mad cow disease, avian influenza and the West Nile virus increase, veterinarians across the globe gathered in Louisville, Ky., at the 2006 ACVIM Forum, to discuss...
by Ken DeRouchie | Mar 29, 2008 | Articles, Dentistry, Issue 07, Newsletter, Practice Areas
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Helps Volunteer Group Reach 20-year Milestone When oral and maxillofacial surgeon Louis K. Rafetto, DMD, traveled to Peru to donate his services last February, he became the 5,000th volunteer placement for Health Volunteers Overseas...