DVM back issues from May 2006:
Pet spending to shatter records in 2006, trade group reports
May 01, 2006; ... SAN DIEGO - Pet spending is expected to reach an all-time high this year of $38.4 billion with $9.4 billion going toward veterinary care. The figures come from the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association's (APPMA) latest estimates on pet industry spending. Total spending in 2005 ...
Ohio appeals court strikes vicious dog laws
May 01, 2006; ... TOLEDO, OHIO-More than a year after the Ohio Supreme Court quashed part of the state's vicious dog laws, an appeals panel finds another section of code as well as a Toledo ordinance targeting Pit Bulls unconstitutional. Proponents of the repealed laws announced last month they're taking ...
Medical genius or ice cream delivery driver; too close to call for some clients
May 01, 2006; ... It happened in a little-known place called the Elwood Ivins Steel Tube Mill in Horsham, Pa. The year was 1968. I was feeding the end of a large pipe into a mechanical glutton called the rotating swage hammer when the tail of my shirt got caught in the mechanism. Fortunately, I escaped a ...
Safe haven
May 01, 2006; ... Maine shelters pets under domestic protection AUGUSTA, MAINE - Legislative moves expanding domestic violence laws to protect pets are spreading in New England. Last month, Maine enacted the nation's first protection order to include pets of owners leaving abusive relationships ....
North Dakota investigators study anthrax outbreak
May 01, 2006; ... FARGO, N.D. - Researcher in North Dakota are studying last year's anthrax outbreakthat claimed the lives of hundreds of cattle. The goal: to gather data and formulate management protocols for producers in endemic areas of the state. Dr. Neil Dyer, director of North Dakota State ...
ISU presses on with Nebraska deal
May 01, 2006; ... AMES, IOWA-Despite a dose vote by Iowa faculty members, Iowa State University (ISU) is proceeding with a University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL) deal that will allow Nebraska residents to enroll at ISU at in-state rates. But the measure passed with its fair share of debate. Faculty other ...
Quotables
May 01, 2006; ... "There's no court order protecting a car or a home. This has farreaching implications; I would say it's a huge change in pet status under the law." - Dr. James Wilson, Priority Veterinary Management Consultants ("Safe haven: Maine shelters pets under domestic protection", ...
AVMA pushes for $1 million to support loan repayment program
May 01, 2006; ... newsbreak WASHINGTON - Riding on last year's success in gaining a $500,000 line item for the National Veterinary Medical Services Act (NVMSA), the profession's leadership now plans to request double that amount. While rules guiding NVMSA, an educational debt-repayment program for ...
CVMB issues privacy alert
May 01, 2006; ... SACRAMEMTO, CALIF. - The California Veterinary Medical Board (CVMB) warns licensees, applicants and others that the agency's mail was stolen from a general mailbox at a Department of Consumer Affairs facility. Those who sent the agency mail between Feb. 25 ...
DVM Newsmagazine captures Neal Award
May 01, 2006; ... Coverage showcases important veterinarian-led rescue, recovery efforts CLEVELAND - DVM Newsmagazine won a prestigious 2006 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award in the category of Best News Coverage. It is considered the highest honor for business-to-business magazines ...
Oregon Humane Society to open teaching hospital
May 01, 2006; ... PORTLAND, ORE. - The Oregon Humane Society's (OHS) planned $6.4-million Animal Medical and Learning Center, slated to open in 2007, will be the first of its kind. The center will serve as a resource for Oregon State University (OSU) students who will study at the on-site veterinary ...
Oregon State University maintains full accreditation
May 01, 2006; ... CORRECTION CORVALLIS, ORE.-Oregon State University's (OSU) veterinary college remains fully accredited following the addition of a non-veterinarian as the programs dean, despite a published report in the March issue of DVM Newsmagazine. In March, the accrediting arm of the ...
AAVSB plans job survey
May 01, 2006; ... KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The American Association of Veterinary State Boards (AAVSB) plans this month to solicit technicians for a job analysis survey designed to update the profession's national entrance exam. Participants will be asked to rate veterinary technician tasks according to the ...
Kansas veterinary board takes actions against DVM licenses
May 01, 2006; ... WAMEGO, KAN-About 2,400 veterinarians holding a Kansas license recently received a letter from the Kansas Board of Veterinary Examiners (KBVE) stating legal action will be taken against them if caught reselling ethical products in a manner that violates manufacturer directions. "All of ...
CVC celebrates debut East Coast conference
May 01, 2006; ... BAIITMORE-Advanstar Veterinary Healthcare Communications (AVHC) offered veterinarians more than 450 continuingeducation credit hours at its inaugural CVC East in Baltimore. More than 3,000 veterinarians, students, guests and exhibitors attended the meeting. "We're very pleased ...
West Hollywood appeals cat declaw decision
May 01, 2006; ... newsbreak WEST HOLLYWOOD, CAUF.-The city of West Hollywood is appealing a Superior Court ruling that favored the California Veterinary Medical Association's (CVMA) lawsuit to overturn the municipality's 2003 cat declaw ban. It's the latest move in an ongoing battle concerning the ...
APHIS courts comments for identification standard
May 01, 2006; ... Welfare coalition petitions government to mandate universal scanners WASHINGTON - The U.S. government has joined the microchip fray at the request of the two-year-old Coalition for Reuniting Pets with Families. The coalition, which includes the American Veterinary Medical ...
CORRECTION
May 01, 2006; ... A production error in the April issue, p. 14S, attached an opening paragraph from a different story to "Two unusual cases of ...
Principles for specialist, generalist unveiled
May 01, 2006; ... Committee lays foundation to steer the evolving relationship between general practice and tertiary care NATIONAL REPORT - As the profession evolves, so do two distinct factions - its army of general practitioners and a growing number of board-certified specialists. The result: ...
AAHA welcomes new leadership for 2006-2007
May 01, 2006; ... Newly elected AAHA President Dr. Michael Andrews says he doesn't have an agenda to alter the association, but he plans to keep updated on issues that affect the profession. Andrews worked as a veterinarian in private practice for more than 20 years as an associate, hospital director and ...
Corporate players shelve plan to lower licensing hurdles
May 01, 2006; ... CVMA opposition played role in abandoned legislation, officials say; DVM shortage looms SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - Corporate veterinary medicine has walked away from a legislative bid to ease California's license requirements - for now. At presstime, officials with Banfield, the Pet ...
AAHA celebrates 73rd meeting
May 01, 2006; ... Establishing protocols, standards of care top continuing education topics LONG BEACH, CALIF.-More than 1,365 veterinarians and 1,050 veterinary professionals were in attendance at the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) 73rd-annual conference in Long Beach, Calif. The ...
L.A. County proposes mandatory sterilization
May 01, 2006; ... Los ANGELES-A plan designed to stave off Pit Bull and Rottweiler attacks around Los Angeles has expanded to mandate the sterilization of almost all dogs in unincorporated areas of the nation's largest county. The Los Angeles County proposal no longer includes breed specifics and instead ...
Cornell University dean will step down after 10 years
May 01, 2006; ... ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University announced Dr. Donald Smith, the university's Austin O. Hooey Dean of Veterinary Medicine, will end his 10-year tenure in June 2007. Smith was appointed by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings in April 1997 and was the first board-certified clinician to ...
Kansas governor mulls granting board more power
May 01, 2006; ... newsbreak TOPEKA, KAN. - A bill sitting on Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' desk seeks to amend the Kansas Veterinary Practice Act by allowing the state s licensing board authority to fine and bring charges against lay practitioners. Enactment of House Bill 2834 would allow the Kansas ...
AAHA diagnostic codes standardize disease entry
May 01, 2006; ... System could facilitate disease trend data, compliance checks and insurance payments LONG BEACH, CALIF. - The Diagnostic Codes Task Force established by the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) is concluding the development of 2,000 uniformly accepted codes for veterinary ...
Benchmarking study measures specialist practices
May 01, 2006; ... LONG BEACH, CALIF.-The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) plans to release results of a 2005 Specialist/Referral Benchmarking Study this month to better understand this growing segment An eight-person task force formed a survey asking specialists and mobile practices about how ...
University of Illinois offers veterinary program in business management
May 01, 2006; ... URBANA, lu. - The University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine plans to offer the Executive Veterinary Program in Business Management in August. The program, open to veterinarians with two years of work experience in the ...
Letters to the Editor
May 01, 2006; ... Using clients as punch line not so funny I would like to convey my disappointment regarding the tone of Dr. Obenski s columns. I find his use of nicknames such as "Lunkhead" for clients, "Goner" for patients, etc. disrespectful. I have a sense of humor, and I certainly have ...
Biting back
May 01, 2006; ... DENVER - More than 1,000 dogs have been euthanized in Denver following its year-long Pit Bull ban. Some residents have reclaimed their mixedbreeds from dog death row and moved out of city limits to save their pets. As dog-bite stories ripple through municipalities and give rise to debate ...
Emerging zoonoses: Frightening interface exists between animal and human health
May 01, 2006; ... Over the last few months, it is rarely possible to read through a newspaper, magazine, listen to the radio or watch TV without encountering some item about an emerging zoonotic disease. Ebola virus, SARS, bird flu - these have all been headlines and major stories, underscoring the expanding, ...
SPEAK out
May 01, 2006; ... A DVM Newsmagazine question for veterinarians What was your most humorous encounter with a client? "The most humorous encounters at our practice include a young boy who came in with a hamster with swelling on its cheek. The clients thought it might be a cancerous mass. After ...
ACVIM Forum slated for Louisville
May 01, 2006; ... Louisville, KY.-The 2006 American Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) Forum will host an estimated 3,200 attendees from more than 40 countries, conference organizers report. The four-day meeting, May 31-June 3, here will include presentations on chemotherapy considerations, case report ...
On the verge of exile?
May 01, 2006; ... Veterinary profession tries to muzzle breed ban initiatives by calling for better animal control funding, owner/animal education After five surgeries spanning almost three years, Mary Murphy-Smith, 49, cannot open her right hand. She can no longer deliver babies in her profession as a ...
Standards of care: Apply them evenly to all patients
May 01, 2006; ... There tends to be a fairly ascertainable medical standard that must be met, regardless of the client's capacity or inclination to pay for treatment that meets that standard. Unless a veterinary practitioner is willing to accept some degree of risk in patient treatment, she must institute ...
What constitutes abuse, neglect?
May 01, 2006; ... It appears the gap between highly trained medical professionals and pet owners who can't afford their A-level recommendations for care is widening. So when a veterinarian's advice goes unheeded, at what point can the owners refusal to treat be defined as causing harm to the animal? In ...
Are you making the medical grade?
May 01, 2006; ... As the continuing education season is well under way, the time has come for another practical quiz. This test is built on questions we face daily. Perhaps we could do a trivia quiz, but there are just so many things we need to know. All questions have been taken from "Textbook of ...
Canine Lyme disease: Lessons learned in the past 20 years
May 01, 2006; ... Two decades of research and treatment provide valuable insight about how to stop the spread of the disease-and even eliminate it altogether. Most people learn best through experience. As a veterinary researcher, educator, and private practitioner in Durham, Conn., I have gained expertise ...
Focus on your 'A' clients in sluggish economy
May 01, 2006; ... Review your fee schedule to balance increased business costs In the last couple of years, there's been a recurring theme in the e-mail messages I receive from veterinarians. "In our area of the country where new housing developments are few and far between, business has been very ...
Fiduciary fundamentals
May 01, 2006; ... A professional trustee can ensure taxes, investments and records won't come back to haunt beneficiaries When you set up a trust, you will choose a trustee whose function it will be to oversee and administer property and assets in the trust according to your specific instructions. Keep in ...
Veterinarian welcomes immigration to rural Iowa
May 01, 2006; ... DENISON, IOWA - As the nation's attention turns toward political initiatives to overhaul the U.S. immigration system, a mixed animal practitioner living in a small city with a huge immigration surge believes the trend will protect his business. Dr. Kevin McKeown, a 27-year Denison, Iowa, ...
Executive Board makes appointments to AVMA welfare committee
May 01, 2006; ... SCHAUMBURG, ILL-The American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA) Executive Board recently named membership to its Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (AWAC). The seven-member group is now charged with developing a set of overarching veterinary animal welfare principles. AWAC members ...
Bayer to distribute microchip; releases dewormer
May 01, 2006; ... ATE BREAKING PRODUCTS SHAWNEE, KAN.-Bayer HealthCare, Animal Health Division, announced that it reached an agreement for U.S. distribution rights for Switzerland-based Datamars' ISO-approved microchips and scanners for companion animals and horses. Datamars manufactures RFID ...
Advances in diagnosing canine pancreatitis
May 01, 2006; ... This information is provided by IDEXX Laboratories as an educational service to practitioners. IDEXX Laboratories has introduced a new test for canine pancreas-specific lipase, Spec cPL(TM), that allows practitioners to more immediately and definitively diagnose pancreatitis in dogs ....
Cloning results copied for commercial enterprise
May 01, 2006; ... Texas A&M now focuses on biological process of oocytes AUSTIN, TEXAS - A partnership between ViaGen Inc. and Encore Genetics produced the first commercially cloned mare in the United States. Royal Blue Boon Too is the genetic replica of a champion cutter owned by Elaine ...
Poor socialization can stem from a variety of circumstances
May 01, 2006; ... Veterinarians can help clients learn how to identify peculiar behaviors, socialize atypical animals Private equine practice is largely a matter of lameness, reproductive issues, trauma care and preventive medicine. There are occasions, however, when behavior problems directly affect ...
Incidences of neoplasia
May 01, 2006; ... Neoplasia is generally an uncommon occurrence in horses. "As a species, horses appear to have less of a predisposition to cancer," says John Robertson, VMD, PhD, director of the Center for Comparative Oncology at The Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. "The overall ...
Small animal DVM enters big-time politics
May 01, 2006; ... Dr. Barry Adler makes run for New Jersey Assembly seat TRENTON, NJ. - He's put away the scuba gear, paused the pottery wheel and plans to rearrange time spent as his practice to do one thing - run for the New Jersey General Assembly. From now until the November 2007 election, Dr ....
Researcher tests therapy for arterial thromboembolism
May 01, 2006; ... Clinical trial scheduled as next step to test potential feline cardiology application FORT COLLINS, COLO. - Dr. Ja nice Bright, a cardiologist at Colorado State University (CSU) is conducting ongoing research on feline arterial thromboembolism (ATE), using anti-platelet drugs called GP ...
Canine soft-tissue sarcomas: Lungs remain most common site of metastatis
May 01, 2006; ... ONCOLOGY Soft-tissue sarcomas (STS) are common for a practitioner to see as they compromise up to 15 percent of all skin tumors in dogs. The terms spindle-cell tumors and mesenchymal tumors have also been used to describe these tumors. STS are considered to be a family of tumors given ...
Cutaneous paraneoplastic disease: Sometimes prognosis remains poor
May 01, 2006; ... PEDIATRIC/GERIATRIC protocol Q Please review inappropriate urination/cystitis in cats. A Dr. Stephen D. White at the 2005 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum in Baltimore gave a lecture on cutaneous paraneoplastic syndromes. Some relevant points in this lecture ...
CVD remains most common cardiac disease in small, medium-sized dogs
May 01, 2006; ... Palpable thrill noted over left hemithorax in more advance cases Chronic valve disease (CVD), also called mitral valve disease or endocardiosis, is the most common form of acquired cardiac disease diagnosed in small- and medium-sized dogs. The mitral valve alone is affected in 60 percent ...
What is the significance of pyuria?
May 01, 2006; ... Multiple factors can influence white-cell count; culture for bacteria DIAGNOTES Case scenario A voided urine sample was obtained from a 12-year old spayed female Dachshund as part of an annual evaluation of health status. According to the owners, the dog was in good ...
Feline communication: Integrate the signs into a strategy
May 01, 2006; ... BEHAVIOR medicine The final column in this series on feline communication focuses on integrating all the signals we have discussed and in reviewing their roles given the context of the specific behavioral environment. Social interactions are not all-or-nothing situations; they ...
The thong end of the spectrum
May 01, 2006; ... A look at the lighter side of practice When I was a kid, flip-flops were called thongs. But these days, the latter term refers almost exclusively to a certain type of undergarment. It took several years and a collection of raised eyebrows and awkward stares to retool my vocabulary, but I ...