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Do your staff members respect?or better yet worship?you? If not, you may be unconsciously stemming their admiration.

Anacom introduces a new assortment of greeting cards for patient recall, reminder and other communications.

DermaPet introduces a lime dip with a 97.8 percent sulfurated lime solution.

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State of the Profession

FORT COLLINS, COLO - 08/02/06 - A $1-million gift to Colorado State University's equine veterinary programs will be evenly split between the university's Gail Holmes Equine Orthopaedic Research Center and the Equine Reproduction Laboratory.

Blackwell Publishing introduces "Veterinary Pathology, Third Edition," constructed for the beginning student in veterinary pathology to introduce new scientific information on mechanisms of general tissue injury.

A simple technique for collecting a diarrhea sample is to coat a 3-ml syringe with lubricant, slide the syringe into the rectum, and pull back on the plunger.

I, like many pet owners, often put a towel or blanket inside my pet's carrier for comfort.

We created an extra work surface for our treatment and dental table by opening the top side drawer and placing a kitchen cutting board over the top.

The symposium Veterinary Ethics: Controversies, Challenges, and Opportunities, convened at the 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in February, considered the diverse ethical concerns that arise from the competing and potentially conflicting interests that vie for the veterinarian's attention.

One yellow tabby named Darwin will not soon be forgotten by anyone who knows his story. In April 2004, this 9-lb cat was presented DOA to Brooklyn, N.Y., emergency veterinarian Brett Levitzke. Dr. Levitzke knew immediately that Darwin had died as a result of trauma. "I took the woman who brought Darwin in aside and asked her what had happened," he says. "She said her daughter's fiancé had beaten the cat. I told her that I take this very seriously and that I would get law enforcement involved. She said, 'OK, I want this guy prosecuted.'"

Societal concerns about animal welfare have led to changes in the philosophy and practice of laboratory-animal medicine that are advantageous to research animals as well as to laboratory-animal veterinarians.

Should zoos exist? And if yes, for what purpose?

In the article "Coinfection with multiple tick-borne pathogens" published in the March 2006 Veterinary Medicine parasitology supplement, Drs. Adam Mordecai, Erick Spencer, and Rance Sellon state that epistaxis has not been observed in dogs with experimental Ehrlichia canis infection.

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Now that we are well into the 21st century, forecasts uttered decades ago seem to have become reality. The world population explodes toward seven billion. And most people live in huge cities, thanks to modern technology.

National Report - Achieving an appropriate balance between work and home life was cited by veterinarians most frequently as their greatest professional life concern.

Undoubtedly, the major social issues confronting veterinary medicine today revolve around animal welfare--farm animal welfare; the legal status of animals, including the concept of guardianship; and the efficacy of alternative medicine modalities.

When advising owners, the farm-animal veterinarian has a primary responsibility to be an advocate for the individual animal's health and welfare.

Companion-animal veterinarians need a strong sense of integrity to navigate the complex ethical quandaries present at the crossroads of pets, owners, and society.

The public views veterinarians favorably, regarding them as experts in animal care and welfare. But the veterinary profession has had a love-hate relationship with animal advocates.

The welfare of companion animals, which are classified by U.S. law as property, is protected by special legislative measures, including anti-cruelty statutes and pet trust arrangements.

A 4.5-year-old intact female Labrador retriever was presented to The Ohio State University Teaching Hospital for evaluation of a nonhealing wound on the left caudal flank.

In retrospect, I realize now that it all began when my grandmother gave me a mammoth's molar-my first fossil.

In my 30-year career as an animal scientist, I have focused on two areas of cattle and pig treatment badly in need of major improvement: farm housing and slaughterhouse handling.

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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.