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The VIN Lounge will be at the Mandalay Bay South Convention Center -- behind the Cyber Café in the Breakers registration hallway. This map shows the location of the VIN Lounge and explains all the fun, refreshments, and opportunities to relax or bond in the VIN Lounge.

VIN Lounge Hours:

• Monday, March 7, 9 - 6 p.m.
• Tuesday, March 8, 9 - 6 p.m.
• Wednesday, March 9, 9 - 5 p.m.

As a special bonus, if you stop by, Paul will be happy to help you add mobile.vin.com, with four drug formularies, to your phone.

Some Pig
Whether they're kept in the house, backyard, or feedlot, pigs present veterinarians with unique challenges. The new Swine Specialty Center will help you deal with the medical, surgical, and production problems of swine. You'll find information on:

• Diseases
• Anesthesiology
• Neutering
• Euthanasia
• Government resources

There are also links to books and manuals on swine diseases and production, useful journals and proceedings, outside websites, slide shows, images, and videos.

Find the Swine Specialty Center through the About Page for the Swine folder and the Specialty Centers section of the VIN Library.

NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK, reported for YOU...

• Personal perils of rural practice
  VIN | Discussion
• Storms like Jonas challenge veterinary practices
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Bearing each other’s burdens
  Public | VIN | Discussion

Evolving stories:
- Is there an association between veterinary practice and De Quervain syndrome?
- Of stethoscopes and hearing aids
- Beware of Neoplasene

Be a VIN newshound:
VNS is your news service. Have an idea for a story? Have a story that needs covering?
E-mail Reporters@vin.com.

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New and Revised Articles to Share With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Zinc Poisoning (revised)

Texas Farm Radio

• Phenibut is Banned in USEF Competitions

VetzInsight

• Adopting Out Aggressive Dogs

Effect of feeding a weight loss food beyond a caloric restriction period on body composition and resistance to weight gain in dogs
Results suggested that feeding overweight dogs the test food caused weight loss and improvements in body condition during the weight-maintenance phase, possibly because the food composition improved energy metabolism.

Survival time of dogs with splenic hemangiosarcoma treated by splenectomy with or without adjuvant chemotherapy: 208 cases (2001-2012)
Clinical stage was strongly associated with prognosis for dogs with splenic hemangiosarcoma. Chemotherapy was effective in prolonging survival time during the early portion of the follow-up period. Combinations of doxorubicin-based conventional protocols and cyclophosphamide-based metronomic protocols appeared to be more effective than either type of chemotherapy alone, but prolongations in survival time resulting from current protocols were modest.

Doxycycline Leads to Sterility and Enhanced Killing of Female Onchocerca volvulus Worms in an Area With Persistent Microfilaridermia After Repeated Ivermectin Treatment: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Trial
Free Full Text
Targeting the Wolbachia in O. volvulus is effective in clearing microfilariae in the skin of onchocerciasis patients with persistent microfilaridermia and in enhanced killing of adult worms after repeated standard ivermectin treatment. Strategies can now be developed that include doxycycline to control onchocerciasis in areas where infections persist despite the frequent use of ivermectin.

Polycythemia, Hypoglycemia, And Suspected Mediastinal Mass In A Dog
Theoretically, any tumor can cause any paraneoplastic syndrome. In my practice, about 3.5% of dogs will develop more than one type of neoplasm within one year of each other, so not as rare as one might think.

Advice For Helping Clients To Know When It Is Time To Euthanize Their Pets
I wonder whether I have been overly judgmental in the past, and how I can best advise owners in the future, particularly if they want hospice instead of euthanasia.

Why Would We Use The Oral Glucose Absorption Test For Horses With Chronic Weight Loss?
The absorption test tells us whether the primary issue is that the animal can't absorb the nutrients it is ingesting, or if it is losing them somewhere else.

The False Economy Of Not Doing Full Mouth Extractions In FIV Positive Cats That Have Stomatitis
We tried *everything* for these cats, costs be damned. But nothing worked like full mouth extractions.

Use the Rounds link in the main navigation bar to join these discussions.

VIN Rounds
Sunday, February 28 - 8 p.m. ET
(Monday, February 29 - 1 a.m. GMT)
Join Ken Abrams, DVM, DACVO, for Glaucoma is Not a Tonopen Number!
*This session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.

VECCS Rounds
Monday, February 29 - 8 p.m. ET
(Tuesday, March 1 - 1 a.m. GMT)
Join Rita Hanel, DVM, DACVECC, for Prehospital Care – Does it Exist?
*This session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.

Venting Over a Venti
Tuesday, March 1 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Wednesday, March 2 - 2:30 a.m. GMT)
Need to vent about solo vet issues?
Christina McRae, DVM, and other colleagues are here to lend an ear.

How to Use VIN, Part 1
Wednesday, March 2 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Thursday, March 3 - 2:30 a.m. GMT)
The VIN Representative Committee will show you how to get more out of your VIN experience.
Email HowTo@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-session course.

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Want to See What You've Been Missing?
(@ = VINcast available; R = Replay available)

• Recent Compelling and Clinically Relevant JFMS Updates Interim AAFP (R)
• Crazy VIN Radiographs Interim @ (R)
• Effect of Gluten-Free Diet in Epileptoid Cramping Syndrome Journal Club (R)
• Helping Veterinarians During Defining Career Moments VIN Foundation @ (R)
• Addisonian Crisis and Thyroid Storm - Endocrine Emergencies VECCS (R)

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Book Review of the Week
Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
Kansas Wildlife Rehabilitation

Associate - New, Updated & Revised
Idiopathic Renal Hematuria (revised)
Canine
Feline
Acetaminophen Toxicosis (revised)
Canine
Feline
Explore the rest of Associate!

New Quick Poll:
(Look for it on the lower left side of the VIN Front Page.)
Do you and/or colleagues at your practice perform any breed-standard cosmetic surgeries (tail docks, ear crops, other)?

Visit the Archived Quick Polls page to participate in previous Quick Poll questions and view results.

Recently Added Proceedings
- Veterinary Cancer Society Conference 2013 (VCS 2013)
- Veterinary Cancer Society Conference 2014 Mid-Year (VCS 2014 MY)
- Veterinary Cancer Society Conference 2014 (VCS 2014)

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 which upcoming conferences VIN will be attending. Be sure to stop by the Cyber Café and/or other VIN booths if you’re attending WVC, OAVT, SAVMA, BSAVA, Voorjaarsdagen, CVC Virginia Beach, European Congress of Veterinary Dentistry, ECVO, IAAAM, or AVA.

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

Itch: Atopic Dermatitis, Food Allergy and Itchy Dog, Itchy Cat
February 28 - March 23, 2016

Pathophysiology of disease, immunology and pharmacology will be discussed however the sessions will be primarily directed to practicing veterinarians. The course will familiarize participants with the current state of allergic and pruritic skin diseases including diagnosis and therapeutic interventions.

Veterinary Dentistry for the General Practitioner, Module 2
February 29 - April 7, 2016

The second of two modules, this course is designed to allow discussions of current techniques used in veterinary dentistry. The course will start out with oral examination and disease recognition, then cover prevention and treatment of periodontal disease, and continue to intraoral radiographs.

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