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The gives qualifying dogs free test medicatiojn for idiopathicepilepsy — essentially seizurezs with unknown causes — which affect almost 6 percenyt of all canines. “It’s a FDA study just like humanh drugsgo through,” says Dr. Carol Price, one of two vets on staffr at Bear Creek. “There’s going to be a control group, which is given approved and a test group given thestudt drug,” she says. Price has admitted abouty a dozen dogs and has screened several more since the study beganlast August, but says she woulcd like to see a lot more.
“When you run any study you have to have to have a certai amount of dogs in controoand treatment,” Price says. Sites in 14 other statesx are also participating in thestudy — the largest ever to examine treatment for canine epilepsy. More than four millio n dogs nationwide are afflicted byidiopathicx epilepsy. Beagles, collies, dachshunds, German golden and Labrador retrievers and miniaturre schnauzers are the breeds mostcommonly affected. Portuguese water dogs, in the news now that one is First Dog, are also consideredc high-risk. Participating dogs have to come in once a montuhfor treatment.
“It’s a minimunm of three months, up to one year,” Price says. “It’d free for them and they get physical exams, lab work, and a possiblee MRI or CT scan.”