AVMA News

MARCH 2, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration is reminding stakeholders that certain over-the-counter antimicrobial products for animals are transitioning to prescription status, starting June 11.

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AVMA News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Much the same as walk-in clinics, urgent care veterinary practices are slowly emerging as another option offering outpatient medical care for animals experiencing acute illness or injury but not in life-threatening danger.

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AVMA News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The issue of whether to establish a veterinarian-client-patient-relationship (VCPR) through an in-person examination or solely electronic means has recently come before state legislatures and veterinary medical boards.

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AVMA News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

An anonymous donation is allowing the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) to increase the AVMA/AVMF Scholarship for Veterans awards from $5,000 to $9,000 each for the next two years. Other scholarships are available as well.

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The Nerdy Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Have you ever been to the doctor and they’ve written down a bunch of medical abbreviations that you don’t understand? You may have heard or seen the medical abbreviation “TID” and wondered what it meant. The Tid medical abbreviation stands for three times a day. Well, you’re not alone.

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AVMA News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

veterinary colleges exceeded 4,000 for the first time, according to the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) Annual Data Report. The number of first-year veterinary students enrolled for the 2022-23 school year at U.S.

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The Nerdy Nurse

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Let's look at the NPO medical abbreviation. The post What Does the NPO Medical Abbreviation Mean? What does NPO stand for? And what does it mean for patients? appeared first on The Nerdy Nurse.

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AVMA News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine on October 1 launched the latest phases of its ongoing plan to promote stewardship of medically important antimicrobials used to treat animals, including pets.

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AVMA News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

That includes the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF), which has given a $20,000 grant to the Maui Humane Society, a $10,000 grant to Greater Good Charities, and an $19,000 estate gift to the Hawaii VMA so that the organizations can help recover and treat animals in need.

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AVMA News

JULY 26, 2023

Among his accomplishments, his service to both the American Veterinary Medical Foundation and the AVMA Trusts helped both entities evolve into the vital, relevant entities they are today. Joseph Kinnarney is this year’s recipient of The AVMA Award, which he accepted during the keynote at AVMA Convention 2023 in Denver.

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AVMA News

AUGUST 10, 2023

It was created to emphasize the broader scope of the profession, particularly the roles veterinarians play to support public health, the food supply, and medical research. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith and Amy Klobuchar announced August 3 the creation of the inaugural Senate Veterinary Medicine Caucus.

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AVMA News

MARCH 22, 2023

The Arkansas Veterinary Medical Association (ArVMA) and the AVMA actively oppose both measures over concerns of patient safety, client service, food safety, public health, and recognizing and continuing to ensure the value of degrees in veterinary technology.

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AVMA News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration issued guidance that compiles established practices that manufacturers of medicated animal food can use to prevent unsafe drug carryover into subsequent batches of medicated or nonmedicated animal food.

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AVMA News

MAY 29, 2023

Danielle Johnson is the new executive director of the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF), the AVMA’s charitable arm. She comes to the Foundation with more than 20 years of fundraising experience.

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AVMA News

MARCH 27, 2023

When she’s not racing, she’s busy making house calls or scrubbing in for surgery, working as an associate at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Kentucky. She’s had a total of 1,135 starts, including 102 first-place finishes.

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AVMA News

JULY 27, 2023

The American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) and the Veterinary Pharmacology Research Foundation (VPRF) have partnered to fund a one-year fellowship grant for veterinary pharmacology. The deadline for submissions is August 16.

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AVMA News

APRIL 7, 2023

The American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) and Merck Animal Health announced April 5 that they are donating $100,000 to support recovery efforts and care for animals in the wake of earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

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AVMA News

APRIL 26, 2023

The American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) is partnering with Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets to help expand the Foundation’s Reaching Every Animal with Charitable Care (REACH) Animal Care Program, which provides grants to AVMA members who offer immediate care at a low cost to pets with owners experiencing financial limitations.

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AVMA News

MAY 1, 2023

The American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) and the Veterinary Pharmacology Research Foundation (VPRF) selected two veterinary researchers as recipients of the organizations’ 2022-23 pharmacology research grants.

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AVMA News

MARCH 28, 2023

The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s (HISA) Anti-Doping and Medication Control (ADMC) officially launched March 27. Under the ADMC Program, racing will have centralized testing driven by an investigative unit and will institute harmonization among laboratories.

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Critter News

APRIL 19, 2012

I knew the military in general used animals for combat medical practice.hadn't thought of the Coast Guard though. PETA leads the charge against the Coast Guard. For the full story, go here to the Washington Post.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 21, 2010

An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. Harvard Medical School has not listed those primates as receiving unrelieved pain or distress, Budkie said.

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Critter News

APRIL 23, 2009

Over $100 million went to medical research while about $1 million went to animal welfare causes. But a group of trustees got together, determined she was mentally unfit at the time, and decided to “responsibly” donate to medical research instead. It’s more money for medical research. To human causes. I think that just sucks.

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Critter News

AUGUST 13, 2009

It's the best way to train medical personnel. They claim the animals are asleep during the procedures and feel no pain. The Marines also claim that using live pigs and inflicting wounds on them is the only way to approximate real-life situations in combat. Read and decide for yourself.

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Critter News

MARCH 10, 2009

Here's my response on medical research in general. I recently had a discussion about medical research using animals. Tags: animal experimentation medical research monkeys. He said he didn’t know what his opinion was because he didn’t know all the facts. Perhaps it was a necessary “evil.” It’s just a question of WILL.

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2010

Only three accredited medical schools in the whole country use animals to teach surgery. Dr. Pippin told me there's a good reason all the other 150-plus medical schools in the country don't use animals in surgical education: There are better ways to teach surgery.

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Critter News

MARCH 17, 2009

Tags: chimpanzees animal research animal cruelty vivisection anti-cruelty medical research.

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Critter News

JULY 11, 2009

Tags: breeders animal research veterinarians animal shelters medical research avma.

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Reddit Animals

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Hi, my name is Morgan, my dog has carcinoma stage 2 cancer and my mother is unable to afford the weekly medication/treatment he has to undertake without loosing funds to keep us well fed. if we cant afford all of his weekly medications and treaments he will have to have his leg amputated.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Tags: animal experimentation animal cruelty medical research.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2008

I'm struck by how two friends of mine used to be vegetarians before I met them and then switched to meat because their doctors said they "needed" the meat. Does anyone "need" meat? Or do they just need the protein? I think this is ideological BS on the part of their doctors.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Tags: europe animal research medical research.

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Reddit Animals

OCTOBER 31, 2022

submitted by /u/dadsandmice [link] [comments].

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While I'm not a fan of using animal hearts for transplants, I'm far more sympathetic to that than to simply using their parts for human vanity consumption. But the seal industry doesn't care. They'll exploit anything to try to save their barbaric trade and, if they can use guilt, even better. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 1, 2023

I am starting my training tomorrow to work as a medical/kennel assistant volunteer at the dog wing of my local animal shelter. I was so excited but now I’m extremely nervous. I am worried about interacting with a high energy dog that wants to run out of his kennel the minute he gets a chance lol. I’m also not sure what to expect.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 3, 2021

submitted by /u/JaniseAult [link] [comments].

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 4, 2014

But, due to the surgery being an emergency performed by a specialist, his medical bills are through the roof. Any funds that are raised in excess of Skittles’ medical bills will be donated to Cape Ann Animal Aid, a no-kill animal shelter in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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