Traveling With Your Pet Fish or Other Aquatic Animals
While transporting fish and other aquatic pets across state, territory, or international borders is not as common as transporting other pets,
Transporting Horses and Other Equids
When considering interstate or international travel for your horse or other equids, plan ahead because some preparations may need to start months in…
Transporting Livestock
Thousands of livestock animals are transported every day across the U.S. When considering interstate or international travel for your livestock, plan…
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Board revises acclimation certificates, other forms
Veterinarians should provide an acclimation certificate only as an attachment to a certificate of veterinary inspection
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AVMA seeks volunteers to serve profession
The AVMA is seeking volunteers to become leaders of the Association or take on council, committee, or liaison positions, serving the profession while…
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Gulf Coast will get Auburn satellite clinic
Auburn University and the city of Gulf Shores, Alabama, broke ground June 30 for a complex that will serve as both an educational outpost for the…
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HOD to discuss workplace culture, staff members’ engagement and roles
The AVMA House of Delegates will have its regular winter session Jan. 6-7, 2023, in Chicago in conjunction with the Veterinary Leadership Conference.…
Disaster preparedness
Disaster and emergency preparedness and response are important issues to the AVMA. We provide wide-ranging resources to help both veterinarians and…
Backyard Poultry: Consider Your Credentials and Coverage
Veterinary credentials and insurance coverage for veterinarians who regularly see and treat backyard chickens or urban poultry.
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USDA to restructure accreditation program, require renewal
Veterinarians who want to keep their government accreditation will need to apply under one of two newly created accreditation
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Giving back
Serving as a volunteer member of an AVMA council, committee, or other entity is a way of giving back to the veterinary profession and offers many…
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Board takes on topics across breadth of profession
The AVMA Board of Directors, while meeting June 20-21 in Washington, D.C., took on topics across the breadth of the profession, including improvement…
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AVMA proactive in influencing legislation
One bill's language partly adopted from AVMA model act posted July 18, 2010 Crush videos, aquaculture, and puppy mills are just some of the…
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COVID-19 a year later: How the veterinary profession adapted
In this issue, JAVMA News seeks to tell stories of the hard work of veterinary clinicians and researchers, clinic staff members, and students who have…
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As time goes by
Equine medicine has certainly come a long way. While ice bandages and rest were the best treatments for many musculoskeletal ailments at midcentury,…