Many of us here use various medical resources on-line to find
information, including to help ferrets, from noticing what research
projects have used them for whatever reason which helps ferrets, to
seeing medical effects upon them in the research to help improve health
and home care, to noticing genetics concerns to help reduce the damage
to ferrets from the sort of appearance-first breeding mentality which
has hurt so many types of animals, many even more, etc..
 
Here is an article which should help effectively find info:
http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-
document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0000048
 
The title and author:
 
Tough Mining
The challenges of searching the scientific literature
 
Steven Dickman
 
-- Sukie
who isn't a vet, and who says that the only thing not loony in the new
"Loony Tunes" movie (I recommended it!) is that it lacks ferrets.
[Posted in FML issue 4335]