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If you can't attend, check the Rounds or Front Page of VIN, or next Tuesday's VIN This Week, for links to the transcript of the discussion.

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At the request of Don's wife, the VIN Foundation's Stone Soup initiative is accepting donations to be forwarded to the AAV Research Fund in Don's memory. Donations will be accepted until mid-January.

Find out more about the VIN Foundation and other ways you can help your colleagues.

Need Help Diagnosing Hyperadrenocorticism?
The brand new hyperadrenocorticism simulator will help you grow and challenge your understanding of the main lab tests for diagnosis of hyperadrenocorticism:

• ACTH Stimulation
• Low Dose Dexamethasone
• High Dose Dexamethasone
• Endogenous ACTH

Find the HAC Simulator in the Interactive Learning Center, Endocrinology Specialty Center and Internal Medicine-Canine Specialty Center.
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Recent Conference Proceedings
Find these, and many other proceedings from conferences past, in the Proceedings Section of the VIN Library:

• American Association of Zoo Veterinarians 2011
• Western Veterinary Conference 2011
• International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine (IAAAM) 2011

Search 3.0 - Better... Faster... Easier
Those are the goals that drove the development of Search 3.0...now available on Beta.vin.com.

It is still a little "rough around the edges," but after nearly a year of development and testing and a massive clean-up of the millions of items in the VIN database, Search 3.0 is ready for your feedback:

• Narrow your results using filters
• Add or remove filters until you find what you're looking for
• "Best bets" highlight great content specially marked by the VIN indexing team

Want to see how your Search 3.0 results compare to Search 2.0? Click the yellow box that says "Old Search 2.0".

Learn about Search 3.0 in this video tutorial.

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NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK
and discuss.
News Reported for YOU...

• Student debt relief option: Instant gain, distant pain
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Veterinary practices inch back to growth
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Novartis temporarily suspends production of Interceptor, Sentinel
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Purdue veterinary school becomes ‘college’
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Spike in dog-flu reports attracts media attention
  Public | VIN | Discussion

Evolving articles
* Suspected zoonosis: to test or not to test?
* Novartis production hiatus brings more questions than answers

Be a VIN newshound:
VNS is YOUR news service. Got an idea for a story? Have a story that needs covering? Post it on the boards or e-mail Reporters@vin.com.

Share news.vin.com with nonVINners. The VIN News Service (without access to the community discussions) is now publicly available.

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New and Revised
Share these with your clients!

• Chronic Steroid Use (revised)
• Hind Limb Weakness in Rabbits (revised)
• Retrain the House-Train

Texas Farm Radio

• Cribbing/Wind Sucking Behavior and Colic in Horses

Risk of suicide in medical and related occupational groups: A national study based on Danish case population-based registers
Crude age- and gender-adjusted rate ratios for suicide compared to teachers were significantly elevated in nurses, physicians, dentists, and pharmacists, but not veterinary surgeons. Risk was also elevated in nurses, physicians, and dentists compared with the rest of the general population, the relative risk increasing following adjustments for psychiatric service contact, marital status, gross income, and labour market status.

Does the taking of biopsies affect the metastatic potential of tumours? A systematic review of reports on veterinary and human cases and animal models
There is no evidence of a general increase in risk of distant metastases in any tumour type in people or animals. The overall risk therefore appears to be negligible when compared to the valuable information obtained from biopsies in veterinary practice.

Chlamydophila felis in cats - Are the stray cats dangerous source of infection?
Out of the 42 positive cats, 25 cats were stray and 17 positive cats were classified as domestic, which means that of 38 stray cats, 25 were positive (which represented 65.78% positivity) and of 55 domestic cats, 17 were positive (positivity was 30.90%). Our results showed that cats, especially stray cats, could be a dangerous source of chlamydiosis for humans.

Goldfish with abdominal distension, edema, and a bubble-like lesion on the head
Removed to hospital tank, salt added, temperature incresed. Fish is anorexic two weeks, listless, laying at bottom of tank. Third week, he begins to pass large amounts of thin stringy feces. I did fecal, did not recover parasites.

Dog with cephalexin-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis
This poor dog has the most severe lesions in its mouth that I have ever seen. The entire mouth is sloughing in great sheets of thickened edematous necrotic tissue - tongue, buccal surface of the lips, hard palate, pharynx.

Neutersol chemical sterilant for male dogs is back on the market as Esterilsol
I worked with Neutersol on a project a few years ago, and we stopped using it completely due to severe side effects. We did injections in a few dozen shelter animals and we had at least 2-3 dogs that developed terrible scrotal/testicular necrosis.

Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, January 10, 9:30 p.m. ET
(Wednesday, January 11, 2:30 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Drop by for a bit and check in with your fellow VINners!

How to Use VIN: Part 2
Wednesday, January 11, 9:30 p.m. ET
(Thursday, January 12, 2:30 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Learn how to use the most popular VIN features.
Email Nate@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-session course.

Full Rounds Schedule and Countdown Clock
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Want to See What You've Been Missing?

• Glucose Curve Variability - VJC
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Now Hear This!
Too busy to read past Rounds sessions? Download VINCasts to your MP3 player and listen on the go. Rounds available as VINCasts are marked with an @.

If you've reserved time for some quiet reading, click the Rounds button on the VIN Main Navigation bar and read the transcripts of the last few Rounds. You can also browse the complete list of the last 300 Rounds transcripts or you can 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.

Don't Rewrite! Recover! (with Message Board Drafts)
Time is money! Saving your drafts when posting on the message boards will help you avoid wasting time rewriting lost posts and the best part is... you don't even have to remember to save it yourself!

The message boards will automatically save it for you every 60 seconds, so even if you get called away to an emergency in the middle of posting... no worries! You can come back later and pick up right where you left off.

To find your draft if you were posting a new discussion:
1. Click the Post New button.
2. Click the Open Drafts button.
3. Click to highlight the draft you want from the list on the left side.
4. Click the Select Draft button.
5. Continue composing your post as you normally would, and Post Message.

If you were replying to an existing discussion:
1. Navigate to the specific discussion thread.
2. Click the 'Reply' button
3. Click the Open Drafts button
(make sure the Replies tab is selected)
4. Click to highlight the draft you want from the list on the left side.
5. Click the Select Draft button.
6. Continue composing your post as you normally would, and Post Message.

Colleagues working in the same practice qualify for group membership rates! Each practitioner enjoys the benefit of an individual account and personal log-in - maintaining preferences and professionalism - with the added convenience and savings of Group Membership billing.

Remember, there is no such thing as a VIN 'Hospital' membership where all colleagues use the same log-in. Every colleague at every hospital must have their own account/log-in, even if the billing is handled as a group membership within their hospital. (Check out this discussion on the VIN message boards about sharing log-in details.)

This FAQ will explain how group memberships work. If you still have questions contact membership services at vingram@vin.com, or call membership services at 1-800-700-4636 (toll free) or 1-530-756-4881 (locally) or 01 45 222 6154 in the UK.

Book Review of the Week
Kirk’s Current Veterinary Therapy XIV
Buy this book at the VIN Bookstore.
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

eVetSites Tip of the Week
Preventing Font Issues

What's your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases
Zoonoses Case 111 - Opened 1/3
Pathology Case 84 - Opened 12/12
Dental 86 - Open 12/24

Associate - Updated and New:
Clostridial enteritis (feline)
Explore the rest of Associate!

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 websites! Links to information about upcoming conferences include: NAVC and WVC.

Hormonal typo
I have an insulinoma dog who is on pred forever. The other day there was a note in my box from the receptionist asking if it was ok to refill the pregnazone. I was wondering if that was the drug you take when you want to experience all the joys of pregnancy without actually being pregnant.

NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
Click on the links below to see the details, register, and find more upcoming CE.

Llamas and Alpacas - Medicine and Surgery
January 29 - March 7, 2012

This course is designed to make veterinarians confident in their dealings with llama and alpaca patients, and their owners.

Behavior Business - Make it your Business
June 13-July 7, 2012

This course is designed to help you learn how to incorporate behavior services into your general practice and make it profitable, while improving the welfare of your patients.

CE opportunities for yourself, your veterinary technicians, receptionists, or practice managers, check out the Course Catalog on the CE Main Page.

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