Wonderful news... Pedang, a 14-year-old rare, male Sumatran tiger at Ramat Gan’s Safari Park, has stopped scratching his ear for the first time in years, thanks to the insertion on Thursday of a special experimental foam to treat his chronic condition. FoamOtic, a new formulation and drug-delivery platform for a combination of known active ingredients, was developed by Otic Pharma in Rehovot for human patients, as well as for dogs and cats that tend to have such infections in their ears. Pedang underwent acupuncture therapy and steroid treatment at the park a few weeks ago, but it didn’t help him. Otic Pharma’s vice president for research and development, Dr. Rodrigo Yelin, heard about the tiger’s predicament and offered the experimental treatment to the Safari’s chief veterinarian, Dr. Igal Horowitz, who welcomed the chance to use it on Pedang. On Thursday he was put under general anesthesia, while Safari staff – under the guidance of Horowitz and Dr. Gila Zur of Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine – carefully inserted the foam inside his ear canal. Read more....
Posted on: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 20:28:28 +0000
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