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Davis, Calif. - Dr. Michael Kent, an investigator at the University of California-Davis, is exploring different drugs to help fight canine malignant melanoma.

It is a positive step for the profession, for animals, and for society that veterinary medicine has embraced responsibility for preventing cruelty to animals. But we also need to attend to a more subtle and less well understood form of severe cruelty: the chronic, large-scale neglect that occurs with animal hoarding.

Study data shows that for every 100 job openings, only 96 veterinarians will be ready to fill the spots.

While this professor, researcher, and well-known veterinary anesthesiologist loves teaching veterinary students, he tells graduates that they will gain the most from experience. "Most of what you will eventually know to be true about medicine and life does not come from a book or from other people."

In addition to evaluating our year-end fiscal balance, we should include the number of patients benefiting from our efforts.

Obesity is considered an epidemic in this country. And pets certainly aren't immune. An estimated 35 percent of adult cats are considered overweight. DVM Newsmagazine recently asked Dr. Tony Buffington, an animal nutritionist at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, to offer some pet weight-loss advice.

I wouldn't try some of these techniques around squeamish clients.

New York - A survey conducted by the American Kennel Club says 62 percent of the 1,006 responding pet owners would defy authorities during a natural disaster to stay with pets if not allowed to evacuate with them.

Millsboro, Del. - Intervet Inc. announces the introduction of Continuum? Feline HCP vaccine with a three-year duration of immunity against rhinotracheitis caused by herpesvirus-1 (FHV-1), calicivirus (FCV) and panleukopenia (FPV).

EPS introduces the cold-safe locking refrigerator storage box.

Continuing education puts gas in your engine--new ideas, new enthusiasm, and new solution to that problem you dread. And it's time to pull up to the pump at CVC Central.

Securos introduces a 100-pound crimp clamp for use with the Securos Cruciate Repair System and the 100-pound monofilament suture.

National Report - He didn't stage a heroic rescue effort or man an impromptu staging area when Hurricane Charlie battered Port Charlotte, Fla., in 2004. He had more pressing duties: picking up the pieces of his shattered home and displaced family.

Washington - The Unwanted Horse Coalition is being folded into the American Horse Council (AHC).

Fort Dodge Animal Health announces full licensure from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for Suvaxyn? PCV2 One Dose.

DBL7 introduces the Canis Major? with an added built-in scale to its wet dental/treatment lift table.

Spectrum Surgical Instruments introduces the medium Balfour Retractor.

The American Veterinary Medical Association's House of Delegates (HOD) defeated three resolutions designed to control the Executive Board's ancillary spending, especially when it comes to charitable giving.

Pasadena, Calif. - Animal Planet is gearing up for a spring 2007 debut of E-Vets Interns, a spinoff the station's second-highest rated hit Emergency Vets.

Henry Schein's new Ultima 250 Arm Mount Unit is a complete veterinary dental system that comes mounted on a 12-in. arm for a wall or pole-mount option to maximize workspace.

The best way to see post-Katrina New Orleans is with a native. Sure, $35 buys a three-hour bus tour past destruction most only have witnessed on the pages of newspapers and television broadcasts. Those who book trips experience what I imagine is a shocking but detached visit to the now-famous St. Bernard Parish, the lower Ninth Ward and the 17th Street Canal levee break.

PSC assets can be protected from claims that result from malpractice of other professionals in the practice.

Sometimes it takes a small retreat from the day-to-day pressure to see that new solution and the path to progress. Take this unique opportunity, planned especially for practice managers.

Elimination of pain is an effective focus and client motivator.

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New York - After five horse-related accidents this year - including one in January that put a driver in a coma and one in late April that knocked a 71-year-old man unconscious - Councilman Tony Avella of Queens plans to hold a hearing this fall on a resolution to restrict horse-drawn carriages to Central Park and its surrounding streets.

Pythiosis is notorious for being difficult to remove with surgery alone. "Usually that's the case because complete surgical excision without damaging vital anatomical structures is often not practical in the locations that this organism likes to establish infection," says Mathew P. Gerard, BVSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVS, clinical professor of equine surgery at North Carolina State University. "The main point about surgery for pythiosis is that it has to be radical excision if you're going to be successful. Wide surgical margins of at least 2 cm are recommended."

The practicing small animal veterinarian often has to face small animals with otitis externa. While not as common, otitis media and interna likely cause neurological signs.

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Fort Collins, Colo. - Colorado State University (CSU) researchers have developed a way to deliver intravenous radiation drugs to bone cancer patients without causing damage to other healthy cells and vital organs, drastically reducing illness and other common side effects of toxic radiation treatments, the university reports.