Welcome to the AltVetMed Web Site, your home for finding information about complementary and alternative therapies in veterinary medicine (CAVM). The AltVetMed site was founded in January 1996, by Jan Agar Bergeron, VMD and Susan Gayle Wynn, DVM. Recently, the site was moved to a new server and has undergone its first major design overhaul since its inception.
With the new design, we hope to bring you much more information than we offered in the past. When the site was first launched, there were no other sites on the Web that dealt with CAVM. The largest and most visited veterinary medicine site on the Web at that time was NetVet, and most major veterinary associations did not even have Web sites. Today, all the major veterinary associations, veterinary schools, and CAVM organizations have Web sites. Many holistic veterinarians also have their own Web sites, and many conventional veterinary practices do as well.
All of these new sites provide us with the opportunity to provide links to extensive information that was unavailable six years ago. Therefore, the new, redesigned AltVetMed site will become a portal for information on CAVM, as well as selected information on conventional veterinary medicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in general.
We will continue to offer our own content in the form of basic articles that provide an overview of various CAVM modalities and articles that provide specific information about selected disease problems. We are unable to answer individual questions about specific pet health problems for practical and legal reasons.
