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Consumer-driven health care aids self-employed and small business owners
Consumer-driven health care is a phrase that's heard more and more often in the discussion of health care in America, and a concept of great…
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AVMA GHLIT switches PPO network
The AVMA Group Health and Life Insurance Trust switched its preferred provider organization network to Aetna Signature Administrators, effective Dec.…
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The experience of rural medicine
Attacks by feral dogs on sheep posed a problem last fall for a student extern and the veterinary staff with the Navajo
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Noneconomic damages, animals' legal status on AVMA legislative agenda
The AVMA is supporting passage of federal laws preventing plaintiff animal owners from recovering noneconomic damages in the event of animal loss or…
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Board passes agriculture-related proposals
During its April meeting, the Executive Board considered a handful of recommendations from the Animal Agriculture Liaison
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Animal welfare policies revised
The Executive Board approved a series of recommendations from the Animal Welfare Committee, including changes to some animal welfare policies.
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Colleges decide whether to partner with Banfield
One veterinary college is completing construction on a Banfield teaching hospital, while another college has abandoned plans
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Specialists confer about the pet food recall
On the last day of April, several dozen epidemiologists, laboratory diagnosticians, clinical nutritionists, toxicologists,
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Insurance coverage vital to women's health
The eighth annual National Women's Health Week, kicked off on Mother's Day, May 13.
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Waging war on obesity
Obesity is an American epidemic that has stubbornly resisted efforts to rein it in.
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Accolades
Dr. Stephen J. Withrow was presented the 2007 Mark L. Morris Sr. Lifetime Achievement Award by Hill's Pet
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Medical Reserve Corps seeks veterinary volunteers
The Medical Reserve Corps is looking for more veterinarians to join the ranks of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and other health…
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AAVLD continues to seek samples, case reports
The American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians encourages AAVLD laboratories, along with other laboratories
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Adulterated pet food could lead to loss-of-companionship suits in N.J.
The New Jersey legislature is considering legislation granting owners of pets harmed by contaminated pet food the right to sue for the loss of…
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College news
Symposium brings together student researchers posted October 15, 2007 More than 450 veterinary students and scientists gathered…
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Welfare, business issues on legislative agenda
It was reported in the May, 15, 2007, JAVMA News that the Executive Board had identified a number of legislative initiatives as high priorities that…
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Minorities may be an answer to veterinary workforce problems
The U.S. veterinary profession is facing critical workforce issues that will heavily influence the role of veterinary medicine in
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FDA approves first canine diet drug
Humans aren't the only species experiencing an obesity epidemic
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Political Advocacy 101
State legislatures are fast becoming battlegrounds over the practice of veterinary medicine.
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Call issued for nominations to AVMA entities
Nominations are invited for 72 vacancies on AVMA entities and 10 liaison
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2007 is DVM Year of the Woman
When Dr. Dorothy Segal enrolled in the Michigan State University preveterinary program in the 1930s, she had already overcome some challenges—