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VetGate USA offers veterinarians the ability to communicate and consult with their clients through each clinic's own Web page.

There is a new option available to every veterinarian, whether seeking health care insurance coverage for themselves and their families or affordable options for the employees of their practice.

We use posttreatment sheets at our hospital, which list the tests we run most often. The doctors use them to indicate patients' required follow-up tests. For example, repeating a urine culture after a patient completes antibiotic therapy. The sheets are fluorescent yellow, making them easy to spot in the patients' records. These forms also have a “Special requests” section at the bottom where the doctor can add details, such as “Patient to receive antibiotics for three weeks, then reculture one week post-meds.” --Dr. Thomas Polehinke East Meadow, N.Y.

Your veterinarian has just informed you that your dog has otitis, or inflammation of the ear. Luckily, most cases of otitis are caught during the early stage of the disease, so the chances for getting your dog's ears back in tip-top shape are good.

Schaumburg, Ill.-The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R. 857) holds potential to harm more horses than it rescues, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA).

There was just too much going on.

Orlando-The U.S. Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) released new internal/external parasite guidelines to improve prevention, treatment and monitoring of parasitic diseases.

Collasate Postoperative Dressing is available in a 42 g tube for clinic settings and large animal practices.

Schaumburg, Ill.-Five years ago, the KPMG Mega Study reported the female proportion of veterinarians would reach 50 percent by 2004.

Q: How does one diagnose and manage dogs with glomerulonephritis?

Masterfoods USA introduces Pedigree Weight Loss? and Pedigree Weight Maintenance?, two-step products designed to help obese dogs lose weight and control future weight gain.

NaturVet? debuts Natural Fly Repellent in ready-to-use and concentrated forms.

Orlando, Fla.-Pfizer Animal Health recently unveiled its findings on the duration of serologic response to its Vanguard canine vaccine with or without Leptospira bacterin fraction. And the results may be surprising.

If Dr. Dennis Feinberg, incoming president of the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), was allowed to focus energies on just one demographic during his presidential tenure, he's convinced students would win out.

IMEX Veterinary, Inc. introduces toggle pins and a suture passer designed to give surgeons the ability to effectively and easily repair coxofemoral luxations.

Securos introduces its 2X bone anchor that accepts two strands of large size suture.

Hastings, Neb.-The Nebraska Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA) is suing Gary Management Organization, Inc. (GMO), its executive director, E. Don Ellerbee, and bookkeeper Terese M. Kehoe, for the alleged mismanagement of the group's scholarship foundation funds, court records show.

Jorgensen Laboratories, Inc. introduces a line of surgical instrument guards.

Merial has launched two feline respiratory vaccine combinations ? Purevax? Feline Respiratory 2 (RC) and Purevax? Feline Respiratory 3 (RCC) ? as part of its Purevax? line of non-adjuvanted vaccines for cats.

Spectrum?s new autoclavable endoscopes, made from German surgical stainless steel, offer excellent illumination, high resolution and brilliant image quality.

Spectrum says its new ultrasonic cleaner is 16 times more efficient than washing surgical instruments by hand.

VetCare Veterinary Supplies introduces VetSet? IV Administration Sets that are designed and manufactured for veterinary use.

The equine financial benchmarking tools from the National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues (NCVEI) are ready to roll.

Pending passage of a congressional bill to ban horse slaughter (H.R. 857), the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) is lending horse rescue and retirement facilities an official head start on caregiving.

Novartis Animal Health US, Inc. debuts PneumoSTAR? SIV killed vaccine for use in healthy seronegative swine to aid in the prevention of disease caused by swine influenza virus (SIV) subtypes H1N1 and H3N2 for seven weeks post-vaccination.

Signalment: Canine, Labrador Retriever, 8 weeks old, male, 17.8 lbs.

Wysong Corp.?s line of companion animal diets, designed to mimic archetypal nutrition, now includes the All Meat? Variety Pack.

Orlando-Animal welfare audits created for producers will help clients politically and economically.

Washington-The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health (CEAH) is collaborating with six states on development of an electronic Interstate Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (ICVI) project.

To help veterinarians more effectively manage feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD) patients, Hill?s Pet Nutrition, Inc. updates the names of two feline urinary pet food products to help differentiate between nutritionally managing struvite and oxalate crystals and stones, and to simplify how to identify the appropriate products, the company says.