“The UK Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory is a full-service animal-health diagnostic facility,” said lab director Craig Carter, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVPM. “We hope our new name will better convey our mission to the public. With the former name, we felt ‘livestock’ implied food animals only, and our reach extends beyond that. We also felt like ‘disease’ had a negative connotation. Also, the former name didn’t reflect the fact that we have veterinarians on staff and that we are a laboratory, not a clinic.”

Along with the name change, the UKVDL is designing a new website detailing all its services and information about faculty, staff, current animal health risk outlook and bulletins, and tests offered.

New clinical pathology tests are available to measure levels of progesterone, cortisol, phenobarbital, thyroid hormones, and canine trypsin-like immunoreactivity