Most Rounds take place on Sunday evenings, but there are also Rounds with more specific focus:

• AAFP and VECCS Rounds focus on feline and emergency medicine topics, respectively.
• The VIN Journal Club leads you through analyzing a journal article.
• How-To Rounds help you get the most out of VIN tools and features.
• Last but not least, if you need to bounce ideas off your colleagues or let off some pressure, the Tuesday evening Venting Over a Venti sessions may be just what the doctor ordered.

Interested in contributing your veterinary expertise to a world-wide veterinary audience while gaining valuable teaching experience? Contact Rounds@vin.com.

Solving Pathological Mysteries
Veterinary pathologists are an important part of every clinician's resource team. Don't happen to have one on staff? Can't reach your favorite pathologist 24/7? Let the Clinical and Anatomic Pathology Specialty Center help you sort out the clues to your diagnostic mystery.

You'll find information on diagnostic tests, quality control, laboratory standards, sample acquisition, cytologic stains, specimen submission and more.

Links to pertinent journals (including many full-text articles), helpful websites and dozens of slide shows, images and videos are also included.

Find the Clinical and Anatomic Pathology Center through the About Page for the Pathology Message Board and the Specialty Centers section of the VIN Library.

Too busy to read past Rounds sessions?
Many rounds session transcripts are converted to audio VINcasts that you can download to your MP3 player and listen to on the go. You can also access VINcasts on your mobile device at http://mobile.vin.com/.

Rounds available as VINCasts are marked with an @.

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

• Comprehensive pet microchip registry data elusive
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Survey to assess veterinarians’ feelings about suicide
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Tuition hikes flatten as high cost of veterinary school gains attention
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Veterinarians eye legislative path to lower student loan interest rates
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Veterinarians, schools emphasize yearly pet checkups
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Evolving story:
*New veterinary schools open their doors

The VIN News Service (VNS) is here to give you a voice and to report news that is important to you. Have an idea for a story? Have a story that needs covering? Email News@vin.com.

The VIN News Service articles (without access to the community discussions) are available to the general public. Share news.vin.com with nonVINners.

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New and Revised Articles to Share With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Famotidine (revised)

Texas Farm Radio

• Safe Horse Handling during Treatment or Sedation (revised)

VetzInsight

• I’m Not Chicken to Tell you I Have a Beef about what many Cats Eat

Technical and clinical outcomes of ureteral stenting in cats with benign ureteral obstruction: 69 cases (2006-2010)
Results of the present study indicated that ureteral stenting is an effective treatment for benign ureteral obstructions in cats regardless of obstructive location, cause, or stone number. The perioperative morbidity and mortality rates were lower than those reported with traditional ureteral surgery.

Use of statewide emergency department surveillance data to assess incidence of animal bite injuries among humans in North Carolina
By the age of 10, a child in North Carolina had a 1 in 50 risk of dog bite injury requiring an emergency department visit. Incidence rates for dog bites were highest for children = 14 years of age, whereas the incidence rate for cat bites and scratches was highest among individuals > 79 years of age.

Investigation of Parenchymal Abdominal Organ Disease in Cats: Aiming for the ideal biopsy
This review is aimed at clinicians undertaking more detailed and specialist investigation of diseases of feline parenchymal abdominal organs and provides practical guidance on the different methods used to obtain hepatic, renal, pancreatic and splenic specimens in cats.

Should Dogs Be Shaved In Hot Weather To Prevent Hyperthermia?
There are a lot of anecdotal reports from owners who claim their dog is much more comfortable in hot weather with a shaved hair coat, but I've never heard one complain that their dog seemed too hot after shaving.

Insulin Options That Are Less Expensive Than Glargine (Lantus) For A Diabetic Cat
I'd sit down with the client in person, or have a longer phone chat, and present all the options. Unfortunately, there are no best solutions here, only ones that make sense and are affordable to this client.

Litter Of Kittens With Deformed Hindlimbs
I suspect this is bilateral tibial amelia.

Border Collies Ingested Cigarette Butts And Were Given Ivermectin, Banamine (Flunixin Meglumine), And Penicillin By Owner
But wait, there's more! The owner also gave...

Use the links below or click the Rounds button in the main navigation bar to join these discussions.

How to Use VIN, Part 2
Wednesday, September 10 - 9:30 p.m. ET
Join the VIN Representative Committee to learn 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, September 14 - 9 p.m. ET
Join Eric Snook, DVM, PhD, DACVP, for Necropsies With No Gross Lesions.
*This session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.

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Don't Rewrite -- RECOVER! (with Message Board Drafts)
Saving your drafts when posting on the message boards helps you avoid wasted time spent rewriting lost posts and the best part is... you don't even have to remember to save it yourself!

Drafts are automatically saved 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 where you left off.

Learn more.

Scrubs in public? Really?
So, yeah, it's a thing, but it's an anal-retentive, finger-wagging, nosy neighbor, policy wonk, employee manual, robotic asshat kind of thing. Which it sounds like this woman was.

I would have just quietly stripped them off in front of her and walked out nude.

Except for my bedazzled thong.

Book Review of the Week
Brucellosis: Recent Developments towards “One Health”
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Medical FAQ
Canine Leukemias

Website of the Week
Equine Review

What's your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases
Ophthalmology Fun 176 - opened 9/1

New Proceedings
ACVIM 2014
AAVAC-UPAV 2013

Associate - New, Updated & Revised
Canine Centronuclear Myopathy
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: IVECCS, and SWVS.

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

Fall NAVLE® Review and Preparation
September 12 - November 12, 2014

Organized by species, each real time session will highlight the "Top 20" diseases and conditions encountered by practitioners in the U.S. and Canada.

Common Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Injuries
January 6 - March 27, 2015

This course will go through diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of common musculoskeletal injuries seen in canine (some feline cases will be presented but the focus is on dogs) patients. The focus of this course is practically relevant information that is applicable to everyday practice.

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

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!

For more information on CE opportunities for veterinary technicians, receptionists, or practice managers, visit the VSPN Course Catalog. Follow VIN CE and VSPN on Twitter! Click the "Send request" button to prompt the (VIN / VSPN) crews to accept you as a follower.