Fresh Scoop

Dr. Kelly Diehl discusses equine eye diseases and genetic testing issues with Dr. Rebecca Bellone, the Director of the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at UC, Davis, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Population Health and Reproduction at that university. Dr. Bellone covers some of the most common ocular diseases in horses, genetic testing to detect those diseases and her Morris Animal Foundation-funded work.

Dr. Kelly Diehl discusses feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with Dr. Elizabeth Rozanski, a veterinary researcher and clinician with the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. The ailment is the most common form of heart disease in cats, where the muscle in the heart itself thickens to the point that the heart can no longer function correctly to pump blood through the rest of the body. Ultimately, this can lead to heart failure. Dr. Rozanski details this problem and her Morris Animal Foundation-funded research, which looks at ways to train veterinarians to screen cats for the disease.

As hunting season begins, Dr. Diehl discusses chronic wasting disease with Dr. Dave Edmunds, a research scientist at Colorado State University's Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory. This is a fatal, neurological disease that affects members of the deer family, which was first detected in 1967. Dr. Edmunds covers many aspects about the disease, including its history and biology, and his Morris Animal Foundation-funded research to better understand it.

Join Dr. Kelly Diehl in Fresh Scoop's debut episode as she interviews Missy Simpson, Morris Animal Foundation Veterinary Epidemiologist, about the Foundation's Golden Retriever Lifetime Study. This is the most comprehensive, prospective canine health study in the United States, and follows more than 3,000 golden retrievers, throughout their lives, to identify the nutritional, environmental, lifestyle and genetic risk factors for cancer and other diseases in dogs.