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Acupuncture Performed On Animals
Delaware County Daily Times, Sunday, December 31, 2000
By Carolyn Seagraves

CHADDS FORD—Acupuncture is a Chinese medical treatment that has been used for more than 4,000 years to relieve muscle spasms, increase blood circulation, stimulate nerves, and release certain hormones. While the use of acupuncture may be an ancient practice, veterinarian, Dr. Rose DiLeva currently used this technique on animals in her newly remodeled facility in Chadds Ford.


Animal Wellness Center Stresses Holistic Medicine
Wed, June 14, 2000, Garnet Valley Press
By Eileen Shomo

About four years after Dr. Rose DiLeva began her practice as a veterinarian, she began reading about holistic medicine and believed it would help her animal patients. She was certain, however, that no one would listen to her theories until she became certified as an acupuncture specialist ...

NUTRITIONAL NEWS FOR YOUR PETS
In Yoga Living Magazine, 2005
By: Rose DiLeva VMD., MS., CVS., CVCP

More than twenty years ago, between the first and second year of my veterinary education, I spent a summer as a Veterinary Medical Officer for the United States Department of Agriculture. This meant I had the opportunity to see just how meat gets from the live food animal (cow, sheep, pig, chicken) to the store you buy your steak at. Each day I visited a different slaughter house to enforce the regulations set forth by the USDA pertaining to the care and handling of food being processed for human consumption ...



THE LOSS OF THE CROCODILE HUNTER
By: Rose DiLeva VMD, MS, CVCP, CVA

On September 5, 2006, the world lost an amazing man, Steve Irwin, otherwise known as “The Crocodile Hunter.” If you have never watched any of his numerous documentaries or heard of his Australia Zoo, you probably have heard about this “crazy” guy from down under who literally jumped on and tackled crocodiles ...


The Evolution of Acupuncture in Veterinary Medicine
By: Dr. Rose DiLeva

Yoga Living Magazine, March/April 2001

The exact origin and timing of acupuncture is variable. It is said to have originated in Southern China. There is a dispute, however, that it began in Korea, and was exported to China, where it became academically systematized and then re-introduced into Korea ...

 



Click here for Dr. DiLeva's article entitled, Can Antioxidant
Supplementation Help Your Pet? You Bet It Can!!

Wednesday, June 14, 2000
GARNET VALLEY/THORNBURY PRESS

Animal Wellness Center Stresses
Holistic Medicine
   By Eileen Shomo
   About four years after Dr. Rose DiLeva began her practice as a veterinarian, she began reading about holistic medicine and believed it would help her animal patients.
   She was certain, however, that no one would listen to her theories until she became certified as an acupuncture specialist.
   She is one of about 20 veterinarian acupuncturists in the state certified by the International Veterinarian Acupuncture Society, having gone through months of study, akin to achieving another doctoral degree.
   Before February, her practice was confined solely to her mobile practice. Click here to continue reading this article.


Sunday, October 10, 1999


Teaching old vets new tricks for Fido's holistic care

The hot trend in human care hits the animal kingdom.


LAURENCE KESTERSON / Inquirer Staff Photographer
Dr. Rose DiLeva gives a vitamin shot to a whippet.
   
By Marian Uhlman
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
   Greta, an 11-year-old Chadds Ford weimaraner, is treated monthly against seizures with acupuncture needles stuck into her head, back and legs.
   Lily, a year-old Havertown boxer, laps up two Chinese herbs mixed in her food twice daily to control a congenital heart defect. Click here to continue reading this article.

Wednesday, September 8, 1999
GARNET VALLEY/THORNBURY PRESS

Dr. Rose DiLeva Practices The Ancient Chinese Art of Acupuncture

Dr. Rose DiLeva (left), Concord veterinarian, applies acupuncture needles to Amber, a golden retriever, ash her aide, Kim Hershhorn, and Rose Kalinowski reassure the dog. Photo by Eileen Shomo
    By Eileen Shomo
    The Chinese practice of acu- puncture has been around for more than 5,000 years.
    It has only been in recent years that Western medicine has begun to accept the healing procedure and even then, on a tentative basis. Click here to continue reading this article.