Veterinary Medicine at Illinois

Last month 12 members of the Medicina Scholars program at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) spent a day at our college’s Medical District Veter...

Dr. Federico Zuckermann joined the College of Veterinary Medicine faculty in 1989. He has authored over 90 scientific publications and is the founder of Aptimmune Biologics and the inventor of nine patents. He has served as president of the American Association of Veterinary Immunologists and has been recognized with college awards for research excellence several tim...

A new report outlines the dangers to dogs and cats from the New World screwworm, a parasitic infestation that was once eradicated in North America but has recently returned. One of the authors of the report,

Fox 32 Chicago (July 30) – High school students from Chicago’s Little Village traveled to the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine for a hands-on day designed to inspire future careers in veterinary medicine and STEM. The trip was the sixth led by Dr. Naomi Esquivel, who started this program when she was a veterinary student.

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How do you know if you should dose a drug on ideal body weight versus actual body weight in obese or overweight patients? Unfortunately, there is not a straightforward answer, either in veterinary medicine or in human medicine. However, more data are available in human medicine.

In humans, lipophilic drugs have an increased volume of distribution (Vd). This can caus...