The Tennessee VMA held its Music City Veterinary Conference from February 10-12 in Murfreesboro. The association presented awards and seated new…

The Arkansas state legislature recently adopted a law that will expand veterinary technician specialists’ (VTS) scope of practice. Another bill still…

The recently passed FDA Modernization Act 2.0 authorizes the use of certain alternatives to animal testing, including cell-based assays and computer…

The Comparative Oncology Program at the National Institutes of Health has transformed canine comparative oncology since the program’s founding 20…

The AVMA Humane Endings Symposium brings together the top experts on euthanasia, humane slaughter, depopulation, and their psychological impacts to…

Animals deserve humane treatment during every stage of their lives – including during the induction of death,

The Association hosted a symposium where best practices for euthanasia were examined and research directed at refining those practices

Veterinarian obituaries in the “In Memory” section of the Journal of the AVMA, March 16, 2023

The AVMA and the American Psychiatric Association are joining forces in March to call attention to the mental health benefits of having an animal…

Draft revisions to the AVMA Guidelines for the Humane Slaughter of Animals, which cover the humane slaughter of animals raised for food or fiber, are…

The Comparative Oncology Program at the National Institutes of Health, which promotes the study of cancer in dogs, manages the Comparative Oncology…

Cattle castration is important to animal and human safety, reduces aggressive behavior, and improves meat quality. The veterinarian of record should…

A shortage of some amoxicillin products used in human medicine could affect veterinarians who use the drugs in an extra-label manner. No shortage of…

Two United Kingdom residents developed tuberculosis after contact with a domesticated cat infected with Mycobacterium bovis

The 2013 edition of the AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals expands on information provided by the AVMA on the process of, and…

Counseling of pet owners is one of several areas where the field of social work, which addresses human needs, increasingly is intersecting with the…

Nomination Form—Deadline: February 1, 2016 This award is given annually to a non-veterinarian to recognize his/her achievements in advancing the…

The AVMA supports the use of best practices when transporting animals and therefore opposes the use of double-decked trailers to transport equines.

  Evaluating humane slaughter General Accounting Office critiques enforcement of humane slaughter act This past…

Members are invited to review and comment on a draft revision of the AVMA Guidelines for the Humane Slaughter of Animals, which guide veterinarians in…

In a historic move, the Food and Drug Administration’s premarket consultation for meat cultured from animal cells brings Upside Foods’ chicken closer…

Updated guidelines on rabies pre-exposure prophylaxis reduce the number of recommended doses of the rabies vaccine from three to two for veterinarians…

The National Institutes of Health created the Comparative Oncology Program two decades ago to advance the study of naturally occurring cancer in dogs,…