FDA continues investigation into dog heart damage linked to diet
Professor Lisa Freeman comments on her latest research into possible connections between diets and heart disease in dogs in an NBC News story
In the News
Veterinary colleges continue to prepare students to enter profession
Associate dean for academic affairs Nicholas Frank spoke with JAVMA, offering tips for fourth-year veterinary students preparing to enter the field
Racing to save humans through animal research
Professor Jonathan Runstadler comments on his lab's work studying SARS-CoV-2 and the potential for transmission between humans and animals in a @avmajournals story about the contributions from veterinary researchers around the virus
How Covid-19 Jumps From Humans to Animals, Worrying Scientists
Postdoctoral scholar Kaitlin Sawatzki was featured in a Wall Street Journal video story on concerns around COVID transmission between humans and animals
An experimental gene therapy was little Alissa's only hope. Now, instead of certain death, she faces an uncertain future.
Cummings School is mentioned in a USA Today story about an experimental gene therapy developed at UMass Medical School to address a deadly disease in children
First MA Bald Eagle Rat Poisoning Death Highlights Wider Problem
Clinical associate professor Maureen Murray comments in Patch.com on the death of an eagle from rodenticide poisoning, the first recorded in the species in MA
Mother of 10-year-old battling tick-borne disease: ‘his brain is on fire’
Professor Sam Telford comments on local numbers of Lyme disease cases in 2020 and tick-prevention in a Boston 25 story
Can a Tufts Professor Finally Stop Lyme Disease?
Professor Sam Telford discusses his 30-plus-year career studying ticks and the pathogens they transmit, and his current projects, in a Boston Magazine profile
Study Buddies
Professor Cheryl London spoke with AKC Family Dog about the benefits of companion animal clinical trials, including a current lymphoma trial at Foster Hospital