Keep your results at your fingertips -- when you search the VIN database, you'll notice the "Add to MyStuff" link associated with each search result. If you look at the top of your search result list, you'll notice the "Add Search Results to MyStuff" link that lets you save the entire list of search results.

Are you a power VINner who refines your searches by selecting (clicking the check boxes) the best of the best from your Search results and displaying them as a custom Search result (Display Checked)? You too can stash your gold by choosing "Add Checked Results to MyStuff".

Almost every information-packed page on VIN is MyStuff enabled - just click the RED HEART on the page or choose Save to MyStuff and you are on your way.

• Do a Search; save the results.
• Want to go back later and review something you found browsing the Library? Store the link in MyStuff.
• Find a favorite page in Associate; save the link.
• Create your own categories and subcategories to help you stay organized.

You are not limited to VIN Content! ANY internet page can be stored and categorized within MyStuff.

Imagine the power of having all of your favorite links available to you on any computer you use -- home or office or even on a friend's computer.

MyStuff is easy to use. For external links, just copy and paste the URL for the page you want to save. To retrieve your MyStuff, click MyVIN on the VIN navigation bar - your MyStuff is there waiting for you from any computer, anywhere in the world.

NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK...and discuss
News reported for YOU...
Learn more about the VIN News Service (VNS); help make the VNS what you want it to be by sharing WHAT YOU THINK with the VNS staff and all VINners.

• Internships, residencies skyrocket in popularity, AVMA says
  - VNS Report | Discussion
• Glycopyrrolate
  - VNS Report | Discussion
• UPDATE: Stalled dog law overhaul in Pennsylvania approved.
  - Discussion

Participate in the Veterinary Wage Survey
There have been lots of discussions about veterinary wages and benefits for owners, associates, new grads and not-so-new grads.

This veterinary wage survey is intended to provide colleagues -- from one doctor practices to large multi-doctor practices -- with a picture of current veterinary wages and benefits.

If you and your fellow VINners respond accurately to this survey, it will be possible -- using new tools we have ready for you to test -- for you to not only *view* the results of this survey -- but to *customize the results* so they include only data from colleagues whose situations are most similar to yours.

The survey contains no more than 25 questions and should take less than 10 minutes to complete.

Responses will be summarized and shared with VINners. Thom Haig will also present some of the results in his presentation at the 2009 Western Veterinary Conference.

If you have any questions or concerns, email Paul@vin.com -- or participate in the discussion.

Food for Thought
Pet Food & Nutrition: A Necessary Review For Veterinarians by M.E. Smart, C. Haggart, J.A. Mills. --- a review of the current status of the pet food industry from a veterinarian's perspective. The authors discuss market features, regulation and non-regulation, the value of information currently provided to veterinarians and their clients and some of its consequences.

New in VeterinaryPartner:

• Finds for Feline Fans
• Internet Research: Gathering Information Efficiently and Wisely
• Transmissible Venereal Tumor updated
• Tetracycline updated

Texas Farm Radio

• Equine Deworming Programs

Pathology and toxicology findings for search-and-rescue dogs deployed to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack sites: initial five-year surveillance
Although search-and-rescue (S&R) activities in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks exposed dogs to a wide variety of potentially toxic compounds, to date, these dogs do not appear to suffer from higher mortality or increased pulmonary disease compared with nondeployed dogs.

Number, distribution and concentration of Australian veterinarians in 2006, compared with 1981, 1991 and 2001
Progressively increasing numbers of veterinarians will compete for a constant or diminishing resource - the dogs and cats of Australia. It seems likely that overt signs of oversupply will appear before sufficient numbers of veterinarians enter alternative forms of employment.

Pancreatic abscess in 36 dogs: a retrospective analysis of prognostic indicators
Elevated blood urea nitrogen, serum alkaline phosphatase activity, and rising bicarbonate ion concentration were each found to have statistically significant influences on survival to discharge. Twenty-two (71%) of 36 dogs died or were euthanized prior to discharge from the hospital.

Eye enucleation in a cow
Of course I screwed up and offered to buy the cow before I knew all of this info. So, I told her I will send it in to histopath, if it comes back SCC in brain I don't think I should have to buy the cow, obviously if not, I will. I just started working on cows. How do you handle these situations?

Testing mixed breed dogs for breed makeup
You could hear her jaw hit the floor. Turns out that when she had the surgical AI done (not here, thank God), they were also doing an american bull dog. Damn that was an ugly puppy as it got older. She tried to give it to me a few times...

Dog with unilateral facial paralysis: hemifacial spasms in dogs
Hemifacial spasm is an uncommon syndrome. It is thought to result from a facial neuritis secondary to trauma or inflammation in the middle ear. It can precede signs of facial paralysis.

Dog with pyogranulomatous dermatitis: what treatment options are available?
A dog presents with lesions that grossly mimic pyogranulomatous dermatitis. Many etiologies exist for this condition and their treatments are contradictory. Without further diagnostics to target treatment, is a successful outcome likely?

Sunday Rounds
Sunday, October 26, 10 p.m. EDT
(October 27, 2 a.m. GMT)
Join Kathy Tater, DVM, DACVD, for Canine Demodicosis.

Use the Rounds link to join the discussions above.
This Week's Rounds Schedule

Want to See What You've Been Missing?
Click the Rounds button on VIN's main navigation bar and read the transcripts of the last few Rounds, click the complete list of Rounds to get to the list of the last 300 Rounds transcripts or click on Rounds and Discussions in the VIN Library.

Rounds are also searchable via the Search button. Just remember to choose Rounds (under the Clinical Resources tab) as the "Source" in your search parameters.

For All You Multi-Taskers:
Download VINCasts to your MP3 player and listen to previous Rounds sessions while you run errands, exercise or steal a few minutes of me-time.

Recent Rounds
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Member Benefit:
Educate Your Clients
Help your clients to be better informed pet owners with the Client Education Resources listed in the VIN Library. Find even more no-cost, advertising-free, independent online information that you can trust at VeterinaryPartner.com.

Get More From VIN
"How to Use VIN" resources:
The three-part "How To Use VIN" course can be taken live (on the first three Wednesday nights of each month), or you can do it as self study.

If you'd like to take the live sessions, email Nate at Nate@VIN.com, and tell him you'd like to sign up for the How To Course.

To keep up with VIN's growth, take the time to explore the Front Page at least once a week, read the VIN This Week (VINTW) newsletter twice a week, explore the VINDEX (VIN's Front Page, right hand column), and click all the buttons on VIN's navigation bars.

Funny Bones:
Out of the mouths....
"I had one wise man, all of about 8 yrs. old. He was grossed out by the taking of a fecal sample, and vet med as a career choice was definitely out. I asked him "What would you like to be when you grow up?" His reply, "Ummm, just normal I guess."

What's Your Diagnosis?
* Ophthalmology Fun 66
*Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases

Associate - Updated and New:
* Pectus excavatum in Dogs
* Explore the rest of Associate!

Book Review of the Week:
A Guide to Hematology in Dogs and Cats
Purchase it in the VIN Bookstore!

Website of the Week:
Extreme Heat and more...

eVetsitesTip of the Week:
Additional eMail Boxes for eVetsite II (now 10 boxes)

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: ACVS, CVC West and NCVC.

These courses are now open for enrollment. Click on the links below to see the details, register and find more upcoming CE.

Practical Avian Medicine Module 2
Avian handling and disease recognition
October 21 - November 4, 2008

Module 2 will cover handling, restraint, behavior and disease in commonly kept birds.

Quality Management for the Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory, Part II
October 26, 2008 - January 11, 2009

Participants will study personnel specifications, job descriptions, training records and employee appraisals, learn about audits in the veterinary clinical pathology laboratory and determination of reference intervals. Improvement Opportunities, external Quality Assurance performance and a Quality Plan for the laboratory are the final topics in Part II.

Practical Avian Medicine Module 3
Diagnostics and Interpretation
January 22 - February 5, 2009

Module 3 will cover sample collection methods, diagnostic imaging and interpretation of labwork.

Practical Avian Medicine Module 4
Managing Avian Diseases: Behavior and Emergency
February 3 - February 17, 2009

Module 4 will cover management of single bird vs. flock, common avian behavior problems and emergency management.

Introduction to Canine Rehabilitation
November 12 - November 26, 2008

Physical rehabilitation has recently gained acceptance as a useful therapy to improve postoperative outcomes and enhance function in animals with disabilities. This course will give a general overview of assessment and treatment of a dog with an orthopedic dysfunction and present ways to begin incorporating rehabilitation into your practice, with minimal investment.

For information on other CE courses check out the Course Catalog on the CE Main Page.

Please visit How-To's Of Online CE for details about how to register and participate in online CE courses.

If you're looking for information on CE opportunities for veterinary technicians, receptionists or practice managers, please visit the VSPN CE page. VSPN offers courses tailored to veterinary support personnel, and certain VIN courses also are open to VPSN members.