• ACTH Stimulation
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• Veterinarians confront Internet pharmacy PetMed Express
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• GHLIT medical coverage faces uncertain future
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• FDA limits cephalosporin use in livestock to curb drug resistance
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• Student debt relief option: Instant gain, distant pain
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• Veterinary practices inch back to growth
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Evolving articles
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* Suspected zoonosis: to test or not to test?

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New and Revised
Share these with your clients!

• Cats, Carriers and Vets: Tips on making it easier to get your cat to the vet
• Better Vet Visits

Texas Vet News

• Sinus Disease in Horses

Use of commercially available foam pipe insulation as a protective device for wounds over the elbow joint area in five dogs
The layered application of commercially available foam pipe insulation provided a simple and economical protective device after closure of problematic skin wounds involving the elbow joint area. Prolonged protection of the olecranon area helped to assure healing was complete and skin coverage was sufficiently stable to reduce the risk of reinjury after removal of the device.

The first identified case of pandemic H1N1 influenza in pigs in Australia
Results of a longitudinal study of pigs on this farm suggested that the virus continued to circulate for 9 weeks after the onset of infection, but was not present 6 months later. This report highlights the difficulties in preventing transmission of H1N1/09 influenza virus from infected humans to pigs during a human pandemic.

Long-term efficacy of a deltamethrin-impregnated collar for the control of the Australian paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus, on dogs
The deltamethrin-impregnated collar gave greater than 90% control of paralysis ticks for at least 14 weeks.

Food in the mediastinum of a cat after accidental misplacement of esophageal feeding tube
Our resident surgeon in the hospital (I do surgery too, but he is much more experienced) is ready to place a PEG tube to bypass the esophagus and then we are planning on starting Baytril and Ampicillin injections. I assume since it is the mediastinum it isn't a surgical case where I can go in and flush the food particles out?

Presenting estimates to emergency clinic clients
What do you find is working well (or not working well) for you? I am starting to work with my managers on moving towards having qualified technicians present estimates to clients.

Is the world, as veterinarians know it, really ending?
Quite frankly I ride a wave: some days I am cautiously optimistic. Some days I think the world is ending; all vets will soon be unemployed (myself included); no one will care about their pets and we will return to the days of snake oil salesmen in horse-drawn carts. These are generally the days that I have read threads on VIN.

How to Use VIN: Part 3
Wednesday, January 18, 9:30 p.m. ET
(Thursday, January 19, 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.

Sunday Rounds
Sunday, January 22, 10 p.m. ET
(Monday, January 23, 3 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Join Sharon Gwaltney-Brant, DVM, PhD, DABVT, DABT for The Need for Speed: Dealing with Animals Seized from Methamphetamine Labs.
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Animal Breeding, Welfare and Society
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Suicide Prevention Resource Center
World Health Organization's Suicide Prevention Center

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Preventing Font Issues

What's your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases
Zoonoses Case 112 - Opened 1/9
Pathology Case 85 - Opened 1/9
Dental 86 - Open 12/24

Associate - Updated and New:
Perianal gland adenoma (canine)
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Upcoming Conferences
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Get the camera!
My sister has a very fat cat who likes to drink out of the toilet. She also has young children getting potty-trained. She came home one afternoon to find very-fat-cat laying in the middle of hall with children's toilet seat stuck around its middle.

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.

Abridged Dental Techniques 1
January 30-March 8, 2012

This course in Veterinary Dental Techniques is designed to allow discussions of current techniques used in veterinary dentistry. The course will start out with the prevention and treatment of periodontal disease and continue to intraoral radiographs.

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

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

For more information on CE opportunities for veterinary technicians, receptionists or practice managers, visit the VSPN CE page. VSPN offers courses tailored to veterinary support personnel, and certain VIN courses also are open to VSPN members.

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