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

Sherlock Holmes never worked alone, so links to pertinent journals (including many full-text articles), helpful websites and dozens of slide shows, images and videos are included.

Doff your tweed deerstalker cap, get out your microscope, give Watson a call and plunge into the Pathology Specialty Center to solve that next mystery case!

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.

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

- Gateway to joining Rounds and viewing the Rounds schedule

Sail into the Future of Cancer Care
The 2010 Veterinary Cancer Society conference will take place in beautiful San Diego October 29-November 1.

The conference will begin with presentations by two keynote speakers, Dr. Steve Withrow, Director of the Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State University, and neurosurgeon Steven Chang, MD, of the Stanford Cyberknife Radiosurgery Program.

Early bird registration is open until September 30.

Bumping into your Colleagues? The Log out page has been UPDATED!
If you work in a multi-doctor practice, make sure you are accessing and posting under your own name so you can enjoy your own personalized settings and MyStuff.

The ability to “Log out” is currently available only on BETA.vin.com/ and BETA.vspn.org/.

NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK
and discuss;
News Reported for YOU...

• Veterinary regulators poised to define parameters of lay dentistry
  VNS Report | Discussion
• Scrutiny of secondary topical hormone exposures deepens
  VNS Report | Discussion
• Supplies of injectable butorphanol tartrate to normalize
  VNS Report | Discussion
• CEVA buys Summit VetPharm
  VNS Report | Discussion
• Veterinarians report mysterious link
  between dog food and hypercalcemia
  VNS Report | Discussion
• Bills regulating pet health insurance, declaw near enactment
  VNS Report | Discussion
• Propofol shortage hits veterinary medicine
  VNS Report | Discussion

Evolving stories:
* Metacam in cats scrutinized; new guidance expected
* Can breed types be altered on medical records?
* Yextvets disappoints practice owners

Be a VIN newshound:
VNS is here to give YOU a voice and report news that is important to YOU. Got an idea for a story? Have a story that needs covering? Post it on the boards or e-mail Reporters@vin.com.

Share news.vin.com with nonVINners. The VIN News Service (without access to the community discussions) is now publicly available.

Now you can follow VNS on Twitter! Send a Twitter request to be added to the VNS Tweets.

New and Revised
Share these with your clients!

• Snuggle Up
• Psittacosis in Birds
• Mirtazapine (Remeron) (revised)

Texas Farm Radio

• Breeding Horses by Artificial Insemination #2

Lack of correlation between canine heart rate and body size in veterinary clinical practice
The heart rate in healthy dogs undergoing routine clinical examination is related to their demeanour or age (if younger than 12 months), but does not appear to be related to body weight.

Role of the electrokinetic properties on the stability of mebendazole suspensions for veterinary applications
Mebendazole aqueous suspensions display a controllable "delayed" or "hindered" sedimentation and a very easy redispersion that may contribute to the formulation of veterinary liquid dosage forms.

Rift Valley fever virus: An unrecognized emerging threat
The lack of prophylactic and therapeutic measures, the potential for human-to-human transmission, and the significant threat to livestock associated with Rift Valley fever virus make infection with these pathogens a serious public health concern.

Horse client wants an injectable dewormer
I have had a rather valuable horse die post colic and on PM it had fistulous tracts from its stomach to several other areas/abscesses. These areas were FILLED with bot larvae. I presumed this was the cause of the tracts. The insurance company asked the owner as per deworming protocol. Cattle products had been routinely used off label and the insurance company refused to pay out. Good for them.

How do you respond to clients who want prescriptions for Internet pharmacies?
If the client asks for a written 'script, we must provide one, and it doesn't matter where they choose to get it filled. We don't have huge Internet pharmacy issues here, but I still think that's a fair and equitable policy that puts the onus on the client to choose where they want to get their drugs, and takes us out of the business of policing pharmacies.

Client with indoor cat refuses rabies vaccine: Can I fire her for noncompliance?
If the only reason is the cat is indoor only, I've had two incidents where bats flew into people's houses and the cats had interactions with the bats. One bat did turn out to be rabies positive. This is what I tell all my reluctant folks.

Local analgesia for cats with chest tubes; local anesthetics for post-thoracotomy pain in humans; antimicrobial effect of local anesthetics
Local anesthetics not only serve as agents for pain control, but possess antimicrobial activity as well. In such a capacity, local anesthetics can be considered as an adjunct to traditional antimicrobial use in the clinical or laboratory setting.

Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, September 21, 9:30 p.m. EDT
(Wednesday, September 22, 1:30 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Stop by and chat with your fellow VIN addicts!

The Week's Rounds Schedule
Use the Rounds link to join these discussions.

Want to See what you've been Missing?

• QC of Urinalysis
• Trilostane @
• VIN-VSPN Rounds: Staff Learning @
• Household Aggression @
• VIN-VSPN: Earning Respect @
• Learning to Earn @
• Feline IBD Updates @
• MyVIN and Password Vault @
• Elbow Imaging @
• VIN-VSPN Rounds: Goal Setting @

For all you Multi-Taskers:
Download VINCasts to your MP3 player and listen to previous Rounds sessions while you run errands, exercise or steal a few minutes of me-time. Rounds that have available VINCasts are marked with @.

Click the Rounds button on the VIN Main Navigation bar and read the transcripts of the last few rounds. Click the complete list of rounds to get to the list of the last 300 Rounds transcripts or click on Rounds and Discussions in the VIN Library.

Rounds are also searchable via the main VIN Search tool. Just remember to choose Rounds (under the Clinical Resources tab) as the "Source" in your search parameters.

Got Staff?
The Veterinary Support Personnel Network was created specifically for your technicians, practice managers and other staff members to have access to their own message boards, chats and CE. We are also actively working on a VSPN-plus that will enable you, valued nonDVM staff and all VINners at your hospital, to act more collaboratively with VIN and VSPN tools. Have your staff go to www.vspn.org to register! It's free!

Post a Medical Video
Want your VIN colleagues to take a peek at a case for you? Email your video to Videos@vin.com and the VIN multimedia team will compress and convert it to a format your fellow VINners can easily view on the message boards. Read the FAQ for detailed instructions.

Book Review of the Week
Clinical Pathology for the Veterinary Team
Purchase it in the VIN bookstore!

Website of the Week
Deaf MD and more...

eVetSites Tip of the Week
Adding Video to your eVetSite

What's your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases
Ophthalmology Case 119
Pathology Brain Teaser 45
Zoonosis Case 82

Associate - Updated and New:
Eosinophilic dermatitis with edema
Explore the rest of Associate!

New Medical FAQ
Practical Questions about Methimazole (Tapazole) Treatment for Feline Hyperthyroidism
Methimazole treatment is a useful and well-tested method to treat hyperthyroidism in cats. However, it is not indicated if it evokes serious side effects and can be problematic if owner or patient compliance problems are encountered or anticipated.

New Proceedings:
2010 ACVIM Forum

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: ECVD, SWVS and Veterinary Dental Forum, ACVC, WWVC, AAZV, VCS and ACVP/ASVCP.

A rose by any other name
"Well, I thought I was doing a great job as this kitty cat's vet: did a good work up on her ocular disease, worked closely with the owner, kept the cost within her range, including allowing her to pay off her bill in two payments. Ended up enulceating the eye. Cat recovered beautifully, went home happy, owner happy. Owner returned a couple of weeks later with the cat for suture removal. The cat never looked back (so to speak), healing well, etc. Owner is thrilled. As she's leaving the office, the owner, full of gratitude, turns to me and says with a big smile: "Thanks, Cheryl!" Sigh.... Glenys."

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

Exotic and Emerging Animal Diseases: Remembering the Zebras
October 6 - November 17, 2010

This course includes six (6) weekly one-hour real-time sessions, message boards and a database of information about exotic diseases. There will be a set of overview tests, scenario tests and infectious inquiries designed to help you learn. Participants are required to complete a minimum of one of these tests per week as part of the requirement for CE credit, in addition to participation during the real-time sessions and on the course message boards.

Introduction to Veterinary Herbal Medicine: CHM and TCVM
November 2 - December 7, 2010

Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) and Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine (TCVM) can be difficult to understand. This course is designed to provide veterinarians with detailed information on a simple and logical way to grasp the fundamental principles of CHM and TCVM. This course will consist of five (5) 2-hour real-time sessions, detailed presentations with basic theories and clinical case examples on all topics.

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

Now you can follow VIN CE and VSPN on Twitter! Simply click the "Send request" button to prompt the (VIN-VSPN) crews to accept you as a follower.