Sabadoodle launches new website
Sabadoodle
Sabadoodle, the NYSVMS financial partner, recently launched a new website sabadoodle.com designed to do two primary things: attract growth-minded hospital owners/managers with resources to help create a work climate that fosters wellbeing and engage veterinarians at all career-stages with targeting content that recasts financial wellbeing in a fun and fresh way. Here’s how the content can help proactively support NYSVMS members’ personal well-being: A case study resource for practice owners/managers to understand how Sabadoodle helps create a work climate that fosters wellbeing; Resources for Vets (at all career stages) to demonstrate how real financial planning helps maintain well-being and mental health, including a high-level overview of how Sabadoodle’s Proven Process is like a blueprint for matching a vet’s money with their most important goals and Let’s Doodle This! Speaker Series so that member hospitals can offer group-based training for associates and staff that recasts financial wellbeing in a fun and fresh way.
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Cornell-developed anti-TB compound headed to trials
Cornell University CVM
A novel compound that has the potential to starve the bacteria that causes tuberculosis – the world’s leading infectious killer after SARS-CoV2 – is entering human clinical trials. The clinical trials will be funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which in February announced a strategic licensing agreement with the biomedical research company Calibr to further develop the compound CLB073, which has shown promise against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb).
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CDC internship strengthens student’s passion for veterinary medicine and public health
Cornell University CVM
Elsbeth Kane, MPH’21, DVM ’23, first became interested in the role of veterinary medicine in public health while studying abroad in Kenya and Uganda as an environmental biology major at Columbia University. “That was my first experience with the concept of One Health — that a community’s health is determined, in part, by the health of the livestock, wildlife, and environment around them, and that likewise, improvements in food security and economic security can have a positive impact on the environment and animals within it,” says Kane. Now a fourth-year veterinary student at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), Kane continued exploring One Health through a six-week externship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in February.
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Nestlé Purina Petcare company expands voluntary recall of Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets El Elemental dry dog food
FDA
Nestlé Purina PetCare Company is expanding its voluntary recall of Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets EL Elemental prescription dry dog food due to a supplier error resulting in potentially elevated levels of vitamin D in two additional product lots, which precede the production dates of the previously recalled lots. The original announcement was made on February 8, 2023. No other Purina pet care products are affected.
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Unlawful xylazine receives more scrutiny to prevent inclusion in illegal drugs
AVMA
Regulators and legislators are showing greater interest in xylazine, a prescription drug used in multiple sectors of clinical veterinary medicine. News reports indicate illicit xylazine is increasingly showing up in street drugs and being detected in overdose deaths. On Feb. 28, the Food and Drug Administration announced that the agency has taken action to restrict the unlawful entry of xylazine active pharmaceutical ingredients and finished dosage-form drug products into the country to address the growing public health concern.
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NAVTA, Virox launch certificate program in infection prevention
AVMA
Hospital-associated infections in veterinary medicine can result in damaging health, financial, and social consequences affecting patients, clients, and staff members. To advance best practices in infection prevention, the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America, in partnership with Virox Technologies, has launched The Infection Prevention Leader Certificate Program.
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Applications now open for federal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program
AVMA
The 2023 application cycle for the federal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program is open, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. NIFA anticipates approximately $10 million in funding will be available in federal fiscal year 2023 to help mitigate food animal and certain other veterinary service shortages in the United States. The funding amount is a $500,000 increase over previous funding levels, a result of the sustained advocacy efforts by the AVMA.
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The veterinary health gap
DVM360
The 2023 application cycle for the federal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program is open, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. NIFA anticipates approximately $10 million in funding will be available in federal fiscal year 2023 to help mitigate food animal and certain other veterinary service shortages in the United States. The funding amount is a $500,000 increase over previous funding levels, a result of the sustained advocacy efforts by the AVMA.
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Using Stanozolol as a joint therapy in horses
The Horse
The 2023 application cycle for the federal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program is open, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. NIFA anticipates approximately $10 million in funding will be available in federal fiscal year 2023 to help mitigate food animal and certain other veterinary service shortages in the United States. The funding amount is a $500,000 increase over previous funding levels, a result of the sustained advocacy efforts by the AVMA.
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