Sneak peek: dvm360 welcomes 2025-2026 student ambassadors, and other news

Happy Monday dvm360 readers! We are excited to welcome our new class of dvm360 Student Ambassadors! Each year, dvm360 welcomes veterinary students from across the globe to participate in our program where they get to meet fellow students, attend Fetch conferences, and even write content for dvm360. Be sure to check in throughout the year to see their hard work on our website, and congratulations to all the new student ambassadors!

Here is what you can find this week on dvm360.com:

• In an article contributed by dvm360’s Strategic Alliance Partner Thrive Pet Healthcare, Michelle H. Patrick, VMD, MS, DACVIM (SAIM), takes a deep dive into what she calls the great pretender, also known as hypoadrenocorticism.
• Monica Tarantino, DVM, MBA, provides veterinary professionals with helpful tips on approaching end-of-life conversations with compassion when the pet’s quality of life becomes a concern to the veterinary team.
• On this week’s episode of The Vet Blast Podcast presented by dvm360, Kelly Chappell, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM), joins our host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, to help veterinary professionals with demystifying feline infectious peritonitis, including more about GS-441524.
• When septic arthritis impacts horses, they are lucky if they even survive. However, researchers at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine are working on a new experimental therapy to turn these potential death-sentenced horses into ‘Olympic competitors.’
• The Human Animal Bond Research Institute recently announced a new grant to assess the effectiveness of pet rental deposit programs for low-income tenants with pets as an intervention for increasing house security and supporting pet retention.
• And more!