A comprehensive review of evidence-based medicine for the food animal practitioner! Topics include: evidence-based veterinary medicine: principles, applications and perceptions in veterinary medicine, systemic review in the evidence-based veterinary medicine: material and methods, evidence related to the use of ancillary drugs in bovine respiratory disease (anti-inflammatory and others: are they justified or not?, evidence-based use of prokinetic drugs for abomasal disorders in calves and cows, what is the best therapeutic option between intramammary and systemic antibiotic treatment and between intramammary antibiotics?, evidence-based management of infectious certifiable diseases, evidence-based veterinary medicine concerning vaccinal efficiency against clostridial diseases in calves, evidence based therapeutical options for hepatic lipidosis in dairy cows : dextrose, insulin, and others?, and evidence based effectiveness concerning vaccination against mannheimia haemolytica, pasteurella multocida and histophilus somni in feedlot cattle, and much more!

This issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice focuses on Digestive Disorders of the Abomasum and Intestines, with topics including: Diagnostic Approach to the Acute Abdomen; Herd level management of Displaced Abomasum in Dairy Cattle; Abomasal Ulcers in Ruminants; Control and Treatment of Infectious Enteritis; Herd Based Assessment and Control of Salmonella; Enteric Immunity: An Evidence Based Review; Surgical Management of Abomasal and Small Intestinal Disease; Clostridial Abomasitis and Enteritis in Ruminants; Gastro-Intestinal Nematodes, Diagnosis and Contro; and Coccidiosis in Ruminants.

This issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice is guest edited by Dr. Mike Apley on the topic of Bovine Therapeutics. Article subject areas include: Interpretation of bovine susceptibility, Pain control in cattle, Mastitis, Bovine respiratory disease, Enteric disease, Central nervous system disease, Pinkeye, Genitourinary Problems, Musculoskeletal Problems, and the use of metrics to evaluate therapeutic evidence.

This issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice focuses on Bovine Theriogenology. Article topics include: Reproductive systems for North American Beef Cattle Herds, Reproductive systems for North American Dairy Cattle Herds, Beef Heifer Development, Dairy Heifer Development, Evaluation of data obtained at pregnancy detection of beef herds ,Synchronization and AI Strategies in Beef Herds, Synchronization and AI Strategies in Dairy Herds, Embryo Transfer, Management of reproductive disease in dairy cattle, Venereal Diseases of Cattle, Diagnosis and Control of Neosporosis, Management and Breeding Soundness Examination of Yearling Bulls, and more!

A comprehensive review of bovine respiratory disease for the food animal practitioner! Topics will include control methods for bovine respiratory disease for cow-calf, stocker and feedlot cattle, metaphylaxis, pathology, immunology, mycoplasma, bovine viral diarrhea virus, bovine respiratory syncytial virus, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, bovine respiratory coronavirus, bacteriology of bovine respiratory disease, atypical interstitial pneumonia, diagnostics for bovine respiratory disease, and much more!

This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Food Animal Practice, edited by Dr. Pamela Ruegg and Dr. Christina Petersson-Wolfe, focuses on Mastitis, with topics including: Methods for Diagnosing Mastitis; Implementing OFC in a Veterinary Practice; Antibiotic Usage for Mastitis; Impementing Effective Dry Cow; Mastitis and Animal Welfare; Genetic Selection for Mastitis Resistance; Teat Condition and Diseases; Maximizing Udder Health in a Robotic Milking System; Impact and Mitigation of Heat Stress for Mastitis Control; Optimizing Mastitis Records; Mastitis Immunology; and Communicating with Dairy Workers.

In this issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, guest editors Drs. R. M. Thornsberry, Alois (Al) F. Kertz, and Jim K. Drackley bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Raising Commercial Dairy Calves. Focusing on the care of commercial dairy calves and the commercial dairy calf industry, top experts in the field cover key topics such as predicting post-weaning dairy calf performance; the practicing veterinarian’s role in the veal calf industry; viral and bacterial causes of intestinal disease in young dairy calves: acceptable control measures; cryptosporidiosis; and more. Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including changing demographics of the commercial dairy calf industry; acceptable young calf vaccination strategies; dairy calf nutrition through weaning: recent research findings; nutritional programs for commercial replacement dairy heifer operations; predicting pre-weaning dairy calf performance: the calf toolkit; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on raising commercial dairy calves, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.