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Read the BHA findings regarding Synchronised and According to Pete and the BHA report following review of the start

Congratulations to all those who stood for election to RCVS Council and to the four BEVA members who have been elected

Online registration is now open for this year's Congress

Catch up on those lectures you'd really like to see

Medical practice now relies very heavily on evidence obtained not only from individual randomised clinical trials but from synthesis of the data generated from such trials into meta-analyses and systematic reviews. Systematic reviews are quite different from the review articles that veterinary readers are familiar with in that the former rely on a pre-planned and structured approach to identifying and re-assessing previously published literature, whereas the latter, rely on the ad hoc and subjective appraisal of the literature by an author, admittedly usually one who can be said to be expert in the field. In the July issue of EVJ, Dr Martin Burton, Director of the Cochrane Commission challenges the equine veterinary profession to take this important step forwards and robustly examine the literature on which clinical practice is based. And, in the same issue, Dr Allen and colleagues have produced EVJ's first systematic review, addressing the efficacny of interventions for dynamic intermittent displacement ...

The Royal College of Veterinary surgeons would like to advise practices that it is not currently carrying out a data-gathering exercise

The BHA have recently considered the current position of tubed horses in horseracing

Read Prof. Tim Morris' statement on the Grand National

Following this year's Grand National, BEVA would like to release the following statement