Tufts Veterinary Magazine - Winter 2013
Winter 2013 Volume 14 Number 1
Features
- Animal School
- Providing subsidized care in a veterinary clinic housed in a vocational school? Now that’s a community enterprise that benefits students and pet owners.
- By Genevieve Rajewski
- Rime of a Modern-day Mariner
- "A good way to spend a life" is how marine ecologist Heidi Weiskel describes her work to protect animals and their habitats.
- By Linda Hall
- The Hurt Unlocker (Cover story)
- Treating people in pain is complicated enough. Veterinarians face an additional hurdle: Their patients can’t put words to their discomfort.
- By Genevieve Rajewski
- The Old Gray Mare
- Twenty years used to be the normal life span for a horse, but advances in geriatric equine medicine have this senior set remaining healthy and even athletic into their 30s and beyond.
- By Michael Blanding
- You Can't Resist
- Experts debate the use of antibiotics in meat production to make sure drug-defiant super bugs don’t have us for dinner.
- By Linda Hall
Plus
- Iditarod Vet
- Old Horses
- A Better Mousetrap
Departments
- From the Dean
- Upfront
- People, Places & Animals
- Research
- Pathways to Discovery
- University News
- The wider world of Tufts
- On Campus
- Cummings School News
- Advancement
- Giving. Growth. Gratitude.
- Ask the Vet
- A Very Thirsty Guinea Pig
Cover illustration: Vivienne Flesher
Back cover photograph by Alonso Nichols