The new GHS standard does not apply to secondary labels as long as there is a label system in place that identifies the chemical in the container and adequately warns of potential health risks.

Print out your new Safety Data Sheets here.
All manufacturers may not yet have updated all their sheets. You'll find them added to the VIN database as they become available.

For more information visit:

• OSHA’s new Globally Harmonized Communication Standard
• Hazard Communication Standard: Safety Data Sheets
• Hazard Communication Standard: Labels and Pictograms

Note: Mark your calendar to join Philip J. Seibert, Jr., CVT for Safety Data Sheets - New Rules YOU Should Know on Monday, August 31 at 9 p.m. ET.

Signalment Form
Knowing the patient's signalment is important when presenting a case to colleagues.

The new signalment form makes it easier for all VINners to present and know those important details for the case under discussion. Learn more.

You'll find the signalment form in the following folders:

• Anesthesia/Analgesia
• Cardiology
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Emergency Medicine
• Internal Medicine-Canine
• Internal Medicine-Feline
• Urology-Nephrology
• Toxicology

It will be expanded to all medical folders after this initial testing phase. As always, your feedback is appreciated!

Profile Images
Personalize your post! Upload a picture to your VIN profile and your fellow VINners will see it in your message board posts.

Cardiac Auscultation and Phonocardiography
Though one of the most widely used diagnostic techniques in veterinary medicine, cardiac auscultation can be hard to “perfect” without help. No more! The online version of Cardiac Auscultation and Phonocardiography makes it easy. And on VIN, it's FREE.

The text and library of accompanying sound recordings will aid your interpretation of normal and abnormal heart sounds and PCGs and may help with your everyday workup of cardiac cases. Look for the sound-players located throughout the text.

Browse chapters using the Table of Contents or Search by topic.

Want a version that's available offline? The book with CD is available from the VIN Bookstore. (Remember to login so you get your VIN Member discount.)

Books - What Have You Read Lately?
One of my clients, Liz Mugavero, writes cozy mysteries involving animals, called Pawsitively Organic Mysteries. The first one was Kneading to Die, then A Biscuit, A Casket, then The Icing on the Corpse, and Murder Most Finicky just came out. They are funny and clever, plus quick reads.

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

• Stakeholders urge veterinary accreditation overhaul
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Idaho veterinarians make tentative peace
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• FTC: Pet-medications market could be more competitive
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Washington law on veterinary nonprofits: model or muddle?
  Public | VIN | Discussion

Evolving Stories
- Poison-control hotlines and telemedicine rules
- VCA buys Abaxis reference lab
- Shelter animal supply and demand

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.

Share news.vin.com with non-VINners. The VIN News Service stories (without access to the community discussions) are publicly available.

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New and Revised Articles to Share With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Spinosad (Comfortis) revised

Texas Farm Radio

• NSAIDs can Reduce Effectiveness of Vaccines

VetzInsight

• X-rays are Black and White but they aren’t Black and White

Cutaneous lesions in pet rabbits following subcutaneous administration of a novel bivalent vaccine against myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease
Lesions affecting the ear pinna, dorsal aspect of the nose, vulva, and/or conjunctiva are reported. Histopathological findings included severe ulcerative, necrotizing dermatitis, and intralesional cytoplasmic inclusion bodies in myxoma cells. Although a wild virus challenge cannot be definitively excluded, veterinarians and pet-owners should be aware that cutaneous lesions have been observed after vaccination with this novel vaccine.

A retrospective study of bitches with pyometra, medically treated with aglepristone Free Full Text
The outcome was assessed for up to 6 years after treatment. The success rate, determined as restored clinically healthy status, was 75% (21/28 bitches), and the recurrence rate of disease was 48% (10/21 bitches). The mean time until recurrence was 10.5 months after the end of treatment. After treatment, 69% (9/13) of the mated bitches produced puppies.

Lawsonia intracellularis and equine proliferative enteropathy
In North America, EPE cases often occur between August and January, although cases outside of this time frame have been reported. Clinical signs of EPE are usually nonspecific and include lethargy, pyrexia, anorexia, peripheral edema, weight loss, colic, and diarrhea.

Narrowed Disc Space On Spinal Radiographs Is Not Necessarily The Cause Of Clinical Signs In A Dog
Narrowing of a disc space can be an artifact, or it can signify altered disc morphology. However, it does not automatically imply that the diseased disc is causing any clinical signs.

Use Of NT-ProBNP Tests For Screening Geriatric Cats; Sensitivity, Specificity, And Accuracy Of SNAP Feline ProBNP Test
So it looks like it is a test that is actually better at detecting cats in heart failure than it is at detecting cats with occult cardiomyopathy. But even for detecting heart failure, there are too many false positive results for my liking.

Although Dog Has Displayed Threatening Behavior Toward Toddler, Client Seems Reluctant To Have Animal Seen By Behaviorist
There is a website started by parents who lost their toddler to a bite from their own dog. The dog was not overtly aggressive, but they learned later, that they had missed clear stress signals from the dog that indicated he really wasn't ok with the toddler.

Can Practice Owner Request That OSHA Inspection Be Postponed? Employers' Rights During OSHA Inspections
Here's a link to a good article from a regulatory attorney.

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

Sunday Rounds
Sunday, June 14 - NO ROUNDS
Check the rounds schedule to see what's coming up next week!

Venting Over a Venti
Tuesday, June 16 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Wednesday, June 17 - 1:30 a.m. GMT)
Need to vent about new grad issues?
Christina McRae, DVM, and other colleagues are here to lend an ear.

How to Use VIN, Part 3
Wednesday, June 17 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Thursday, June 18 - 1:30 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.

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?
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• Rabbit & Rodent Dental Disease Interim (R) Student Rounds
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• Investigating Disease in Coral Reef Ecosystems VIN/AAFV @
• Wrangling your Online Presence @ (R)
• Canine and Feline Sepsis VIN/VECCS (R)
• Glycemic Status & Diabetic Relapse Journal Club
• Detox Your Work Environment VIN/VSPN (R) @

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

These videos from the Show-Me-How Video Library will only take seconds to watch, but could save you hours over the life of your VIN membership!

• VIN Desktop Shortcut
  Sometimes a few precious seconds can make a difference. Learn how to create a shortcut to VIN.com on your desktop for quick and easy access to VIN. It's not an app, but it looks like one on your desktop.
• A VIN Mobile icon on your mobile
  -- just like an App:
  VIN co-founder, Paul Pion, has created some quick videos to help you add VIN to your mobile device.

Overheard at work...
A farmer's wife brought in an old working dog for a really purulent ear infection. I think the farmer was off parking the ute or at the feed store. So I work up the dog, an intact male cattle dog, who was about 10 years old, and treat his ear.

The wife mentioned that she'd seen the dog straining to defecate a few times. I was in the middle of doing a rectal exam when the farmer opens the door to the consult room. He was a real cow cocky, silent and stern, dressed in his "town" gear of pressed work shirt and polished boots. He looks at what I'm doing, eyes bulging for about 30 seconds. He then takes off his hat, clears his throat and I think he's going to awkwardly enquire as to his dog's welfare. Instead he says "Oi love, I've got a sore ear too!" His wife literally cuffed him on the side of the head. It was probably the only sentence he said all week but boy was he proud of himself!

Book Review of the Week
Dentistry in Rabbits and Rodents
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
Equine Ophthalmology Slideshows

New Quick Poll question:
(Look for it on the lower left side of the VIN Front Page.)
Does your clinic employ or plan to employ new graduates (NGs)?

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

New Medical FAQs
Fecal Transplant
Enterococcus

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 if you’re attending: EVECCS or PacVet.

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

Back to the Basics: Small Animal Nutrition Review
June 22 - July 16, 2015

This course will be a review of basic principles of canine and feline nutrition. A nutrient review outlining important aspects of carbohydrate, lipid, protein, vitamin, and mineral physiology and metabolism will be provided.

Call of the Wild: Wildlife Medicine and Diseases of Wildlife
June 23 - July 31, 2015

The course will include details on the common syndromes with which wildlife patients present to a clinic, the approach to triage, emergency treatment and monitoring of the wildlife patient, the most notable infectious and non-infectious diseases of wildlife, and the public health and legal implications of treating wildlife.

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.

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