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Hormones Running Amok?
Do you have a diabetic patient that's difficult to regulate? Are you frustrated with trying to interpret adrenal function tests? The Endocrinology Specialty Center has great tools for managing your endocrine cases:

• Glucose Curve Calculator
• Trilostane Dosing Tool
• Sections on adrenal, thyroid, pituitary and parathyroid diseases
• Numerous client handouts
• Links to related journals, proceedings, websites and rounds

Reach the Endocrinology Specialty Center through the About Page for the Endocrinology and Reproduction message folders and the Specialty Centers section of the VIN Library.

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

• Mediation set for veterinarian accused of killing cat
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Dog flu relatively new but not novel
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Student borrowers not 'excessive' or 'frugal'
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Personal perils of rural practice
  VIN | Discussion

Evolving stories:
- AVMA summarizes feedback about Council on Education accreditation practices
- Is there an association between veterinary practice and De Quervain syndrome?
- Of stethoscopes and hearing aids

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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

• Classifying Cushing's Syndrome: Pituitary vs Adrenal (revised)

Texas Farm Radio

• Eliminating Sand from the Horse’s GI Tract (revised)

VetzInsight

• When Love Hurts: Demystifying a Cat’s Love Bites

To feed or not to feed: Counterconditioning in the veterinary clinic
Feeding small amounts of nutritious treats to animals in the veterinary practice is often avoided because of the fear that such practices may increase the risk of aspiration pneumonia (AP) in animals that end up being sedated. However, no data support that assumption; indeed the opposite can be argued.

Effect of corneal contact lens wear on healing time and comfort post LGK for treatment of SCCEDs in boxers
The use of corneal bandage contact lenses significantly decreased median healing time, although there was no effect on subjective comfort score.

Cervical Vertebral Lesions in Equine Stenotic Myelopathy
The morphology and distribution of the lesions provide additional support for the previously proposed pathogenesis that developmental abnormalities with likely secondary biomechanical influences on the cervical spine contribute to equine cervical stenotic myelopathy.

Are There Any Inexpensive Treatment Suggestions For A Dog With Incompletely Excised Stage III-VI Oral Malignant Melanoma?
Phytonutrients are going to be your best bet. As this is a hospice patient, you don't have to be real exacting on balancing this diet. You can probably use what I generically feed to cancer patients, without worrying about balancing it.

Measurement Uncertainty Of A Smartphone-Based Point-Of-Care Hemoglobin Assay For Use In Dogs
Whenever you attend a presentation with regard to laboratory results, be sure to ask for an example of how the data obtained would affect a lab result with an example of the calculation! I would be reluctant to use the Smartphone haemoglobin, if I had a well validated point of care analyser available.

Has Anyone Used Solliquin For Anxiety In Pets?
My dog has not completed the full 30 day trial, but I am seeing improvement already.

Workup For Vaginal Bleeding In A Ovariectomized Bitch That Also Has Vestibulovaginal Stenosis
Cool case. Glad this poor girl has some relief now!

Wondering how long it is until the next Rounds session? Take a look at the Rounds Countdown Clock!

Venting Over a Venti
Tuesday, March 8 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Wednesday, March 9 - 2:30 a.m. GMT)
Need to vent about student issues?
Christina McRae, DVM, and other colleagues are here to lend an ear.

How to Use VIN, Part 2
Wednesday, March 9 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Thursday, March 10 - 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.

VIN Rounds
Sunday, March 13 - 9 p.m. ET
(Monday, March 14 - 1 a.m. GMT)
Join Leslie A. Lyons, PhD, and Dennis O'Brien, DVM, PhD, for Precision Medicine: Flexing our Genomic Muscles for Cats with Myopathies
*This session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.

Need help remembering when Rounds sessions are happening? Check out the list of ways to be reminded about VIN Rounds sessions.

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

• Student Loan Repayment & New REPAYE Program (R) Interim
• Low Cobalamin Levels: A Review of the Problem and What's New Journal Club
• Prehospital Care - Does it Exist? VECCS (R)
• Glaucoma is NOT a Tonopen Number! @ (R)
• Recent Compelling and Clinically Relevant JFMS Updates AAFP (R)

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Rounds are also searchable! Use the filters on the right of your Search Results page.

Book Review of the Week
Slatter’s Fundamentals of Veterinary Ophthalmology, Fifth Edition
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
Environmental Health Maps

Associate - New, Updated & Revised
Canine Alcohol Toxicosis

Recently Added Proceedings
- International Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Symposium (IVECCS 2015)

New Medical FAQ
Capturing Close-up Clinical Images of Interest

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 or any of the other VIN booths if you’re attending SAVMA, BSAVA, Voorjaarsdagen, CVC Virginia Beach, European Congress of Veterinary Dentistry, ECVO, IAAAM, or AVA.

NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
Visit the CE Main Page and check out the Course Catalog to see what other courses are starting soon.

OSHA & Practice Safety
April 4 - July 7, 2016

This course is designed for the practice owner, manager or administrator who desires to understand OSHA's standards as well as practical ways to implement them in a veterinary practice. We attempt to avoid debating the merits of any particular requirement and focus on how to achieve compliance! This course will cover ALL aspects of a hospital safety program, not just the Hazard Communication Standard.

Introduction to Chemotherapy in Veterinary Medicine
May 2 - June 2, 2016

This course will provide an overview of chemotherapy in veterinary medicine. Specific topics covered will include the origin of chemotherapy use in both human and veterinary medicine, chemotherapy safety, chemotherapy side effects, and cancer patient management. Cancer-specific chemotherapy protocols will be summarized along with the associated outcome data from our veterinary literature.

Visit the CE Participant Resource Center to learn the basics of online CE, how to find your course area, CE participation requirements, and much more!

To get the most from your CE course, plan to attend a practice session before your course begins. Practice sessions are scheduled for the same days and times each week for your convenience:

• Tues. afternoons 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET
• Weds. evenings 10:00 - 11:00 p.m. ET
• Thurs. evenings 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET

Check the World Clock Time Zone Converter to confirm session start times for your area.

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