Tipping points
Veterinary medicine without imaging is like travelling without a map
Anno 2022, it is almost impossible to imagine how little people knew about what was going on inside the body before the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen in 1895. A revolutionary discovery that would mark the beginning of a new era in medicine. What techniques do today's veterinarians use in their work?
Antibiotics: from life-saving discovery to the next pandemic?
Antibiotics are our most effective treatment for bacterial infections, especially when it comes to seriously ill patients who are already in a fragile state. However, these life-saving drugs have been affected by the threat of antibiotic resistance - also referred to as the 'hidden pandemic' - over the past few decades.
Lessons we can learn from veterinarians
People used to throw cadavers into the canals of Utrecht. Perishable foods were stored in preserving jars, lard or brine. So how has veterinary knowledge changed our behaviour over the last two hundred years? Read these five short articles to find out.
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