Wrap up: dvm360 Live! returns for season 3, and other news

Happy Friday, dvm360 readers! As fall settles in, this week brought a familiar face back to your screens, along with 2 timely toxicology warnings, a major licensing update out of California, and some thoughtful reads on caring for yourself and your team. Here’s what you may have missed.

Leading things off, dvm360 Live! is back. On the season 3 premiere, host and dvm360’s chief veterinary officer Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, welcomes Steve Mehler, DVM, DACVS, to talk through the wounds that keep clinicians up at night, from deep wounds to degloving injuries. Before that, dvm360 assistant editor Abi Bautista-Alejandre rounds up recent headlines, including a US Department of Justice civil complaint against the maker of Darwin’s Natural Pet Products, an FDA pilot program aimed at easing animal drug shortages, and a new University of California, San Diego dashboard that estimates county-level New World screwworm risk. Be sure to check back in next week for the next 2 segments of the episode!

Here is what else came out this week on dvm360.com:

• New ASPCA research published in JAVMA links reusable hydrogel migraine caps, eye masks, and wraps to suspected acrylamide toxicosis in 45 dogs. Of the 21 dogs with known outcomes, 14 died or were euthanized, and gel samples tested contained acrylamide monomer at 12,900 to 51,800 ppm. Read more here.
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1999, which moves the state to a patient-specific veterinarian-client-patient relationship, creates a shelter veterinarian license and retired volunteer status, and bars owners from performing surgical or dental procedures on their own animals. The law is expected to take effect January 1, 2027.
• In the September-October issue of dvm360, Karen M. Roach, RVT, VTS(ECC), explains how to build an in-house blood bank from the ground up, starting with protocols and staff training before the first donation and keeping donor families engaged for the long haul.
• On this week’s episode of The Vet Blast Podcast, Christman talks with Bethany Weinheimer, DVM, founder of The Evolved Vets, about the difference between destination and directional living, protecting your energy, and why “no” may be the most important word for living your values.
• A Pet Poison Helpline case follows a dog that ate most of an Amanita pantherina mushroom on a walk and, within hours, could no longer stay on her feet. After treatment at an emergency hospital in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, she went home the next day.
• Jennifer Blough, LPC, looks at why veterinary professionals face elevated suicide risk and the protective factors individuals and workplaces can strengthen, from peer support and psychologically safe workplaces to safeguards on controlled substances.
• And more!