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Featured Item:
Handbook of Behavior Problems of the Dog and Cat, 2nd Edition
List Price: $69.95 VIN Member Price: $62.96
Authors: Gary Landsberg, DVM, BSc; Wayne Hunthausen, DVM; Lowell Ackerman, DVM

This best-selling, practical book on behavior therapy offers easily-accessible information in a user-friendly approach. With this essential handbook, veterinarians don't need to be behavior specialists to provide optimum care for clients with behavior problems. The 2nd edition provides at-a-glance solutions to common behavior problems, offering updated information on preventive and basic counseling advice, as well as new material on the link between genetics and behavior. All treatment protocols have been drawn from and text and compiled into a convenient appendix in the back of the book. Staff responsibilities and the team approach to behavior counseling are also discussed. Find it in the VINstore.

VP - Clients & Medications
VIN's VeterinaryPartner (VP) has a Drug section that features detailed information on commonly prescribed pet medications. The interested owner can learn how a medication works within the body, how the medication represents an improvement over previously used treatments, and what side effects to be aware of. Understanding a medication and why it was prescribed can help a pet owner understand the goals of therapy as well as possible pitfalls. You and your clients can check out the Drug section at: www.VeterinaryPartner.com

Help us welcome Heska, our newest folder participant in the Vet Industry message board.
To learn more about Heska, check out its folder in the Vet Industry Message Boards. (While you're in the Vet Industry message boards, please check out the other companies who participate in the VIN community.)

...Newly-Added to the VIN Library:

• Holter Monitoring
• Anesthetic Exposure Badges (OSHA Center)
• Vaccine-Associated Feline Sarcoma (Research Projects)

...Updated!

• Drug Label Database

...New on VeterinaryPartner.com:

• Shed Your Ignorance this Kitten Season
• Crate Confinement: A Good Choice for Your Dog?
• Lymphoma Nutritional Therapy

Radiographic progression of osteoarthritis of the canine stifle joint: a prospective study
The scoring system was used in a 13-month prospective study of the radiographic progression of osteoarthritis of the stifle joint, secondary to cranial cruciate ligament deficiency, in 58 dogs. In the index stifle joints all features were characterized by significant change over time, but osteophytosis had the greatest degree of change. In addition, 40% of contralateral joints showed progressive osteophytosis.

In vitro efficacy of ganciclovir, cidofovir, penciclovir, foscarnet, idoxuridine, and acyclovir against feline herpesvirus type-1
In vitro efficacy of idoxuridine and ganciclovir against FHV-1 was approximately equivalent and about twice that of cidofovir and penciclovir. Foscarnet appeared to be comparatively ineffective.

FATE in Cats--Do You Give Heparin/Aspirin & Fluids or Not?
I have no secret treatments for survival. I think that most of our increased survival coincided with the investment in the critical care/ICU staff and equipment. Basically they get better nursing care than 10 years ago. For what its worth here is how I treat these cats.

Those Hellish Clients
Any new clinic will immediately attract all the losers who have been run off by all the other hospitals within driving distance. Now that you have had enough, guess where she will go. That's right, that new clinic that just opened up the road. Don't give it a second thought.

Dentistry for Veterinary Technicians
Did you know you can increase your profit in your hospital and increase the utilization of your veterinary technicians simultaneously? Help give your dental patients the best care by having your veterinary technicians sign up for this online CE course today - Dentistry for Veterinary Technicians!

Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

• Understand and recognize the cause, prevention, and treatment of periodontal disease
• Understand the duties of the Veterinary Technician as they relate to veterinary dentistry

Instructor: Steve Holmstrom, DVM, DAVDC

Dates: July 29 - September 9, 2004
Real Time Sessions: Monday evenings 9:00 - 11:00pm

CE Hours: 8 (applied for RACE approval)

Tuition:
$128.00 ($115.00 early bird special if registered before July 19, 2004).
Full time students of an AVMA accredited Veterinary Technician Program will receive a reduced rate for this course of $64 (upon verification of student status)

To register or learn more about this course, click on Dentistry for Veterinary Technicians

How To Use VIN course: Part 2
Wednesday, July 14, 9:30 pm ET -
Learn how to use VIN's Message Boards. Email Nate@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-part course.
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Sunday, July 18, 10 pm ET -
Join Edward Guiducci for Associate Buy-Ins.
Rounds Room

Abstract Of The Week:
Efficacy of Ceftiofur for Acute Postpartum Metritis in Dairy Cows

What's Your Diagnosis?
Foreign Animal Disease: Case 2

Website Of The Week:
Veterinary Anesthesia Support Group and more ...

Book Review:
The Practical Veterinarian - Small Animal Dentistry
This resource is available in the VINstore.

eVetsites Tip of the Week:
New VIN Logo Page for Your eVetSite

Upcoming Conferences
Looking to attend -- or contribute a paper to -- a veterinary conference? Check out the On The Road With VIN folder, or the Press Releases folder, to see what conferences are coming up and to visit their web sites! Links to information about upcoming conferences include: AVMA, NEVC, AAV, CVC, IVECCS, ECVIM, SWVS

Recent Rounds:

• Pleural Space Disease (ACVSc)
• Veterinary Compounding Issues: Creative Medications Strategies
• Diagnostic Testing for Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism
• OSHA Rounds
• Eight Emerging Dermatoses in Cats (AAFP)
• Inflammation and NF-kB
• Cholangitis/Cholangiohepatitis Complex (AAFP)
• Bone Marrow Disease (ACVSc)

From the Boards:
* Pododermatitis
* Monoclonal Antibodies For Lymphomas?
* Nemaline Myopathy
* Ethylene Glycol Testing

Urine Luck
As more animals transition into geriatrics, more develop renal disease. While we are continually developing new technology and diagnostic tools to determine the causes of disease, problems in nephrology pose significant diagnostic challenge to the practicing vet.

Our latest CE course addresses a myriad of Nephrology topics, including: diagnostic approach to typical symptoms (PU/PD, azotemia, hematuria, etc.), renal imaging, proteinuria, management of renal failure, nephrolithiasis, ureteral obstruction, tubular disease and pyelonephritis. The instructors will take a case-based review of nephrology cases in the final week of the course. Sign up now for this informative course: Urine Luck: Topics in Nephrology.

Instructors:
Katherine James, DVM, PhD
Craig Long, DVM, ACVR (Radiation Therapy)
Barrak Pressler, DVM, ACVIM (Internal Medicine)
Julie Fischer, DVM, DACVIM
Joe Bartges,DVM, PhD, DACVIM, DACVN

Dates:
August 4 - September 22, 2004
Interactive Sessions:
Wednesdays, 9:30 - 11:30 PM ET

CE Hours: 14

Tuition:
Member/$202, Non-Member/$287 by July 21st;
Member/$224, Non-Member/$319 after July 21st.

To Register: Visit Urine Luck: Topics in Nephrology on the main CE page (www.vin.com/CE) and click on the Enroll now link.

Interested in other online VIN CE?

Scheduled courses include:

• Effective Teaching & Training Work
• ABVP Module C
• Shelter Medicine
• Equine Hindlimb Lameness
• Ferret Medicine

Use the CE button on VIN's main nav bar to learn more about these courses -- and to enroll!

Looking for CE for Your Staff?

Check out the upcoming courses available through VSPN:

• Basic Receptionist/Front Office Skills
• Control of Disease Transmission in Animal Shelters
• How to Team Build and Organize Your Hospital