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|Articles|August 12, 2022
News wrap-up: This week’s headlines, plus Cincinnati Zoo welcomes baby hippo
Author(s)dvm360 Staff
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As you prepare to end your work week and start your weekend, here is what was trending this week at dvm360.com:
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- The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
announced that 23-year-old hippo Bilbi gave birth to a healthy, full-term male hippo on August 3, 2022. This new addition to the family is welcome also by the happy hippo’s world-famous sister, Fiona. - The dvm360 product report for August is now
available ! Check out our monthly rundown of notable and new veterinary products. - On this recent
episode of The Vet Blast Podcast, Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, sits down with Joya Griffin, DVM, DACVD, to get a behind-the-scenes look at her hit Nat Geo Wild show, Pop Goes the Vet. - During an
interview with dvm360, Janice Huntingford, DVM, DACVSMR, CVA, CVPP, CCRT, explained her own oath to studying integrative medicine, plus its different techniques and what diseases these courses of treatment can help. - A new
episode of dvm360 Live! aired this week! Check out Christman as he is joined by Turpin Mott, Chief operating officer at National Veterinary Association as Mott offers tips and tricks to help you tune into your well-being on multiple levels. - And more!
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