NYSVMS announces Power of 10 Class of 2026
NYSVMS
The Power of 10 program is a national initiative designed to cultivate leadership capacity in grads 15 years or less from veterinary school who are current NYSVMS members and provide learning experiences that will enrich the individual and benefit the individual’s practice, community and profession. NYSVMS has held this program since 2018 and provides NYSVMS members with 4 leadership development sessions. NYSVMS provides the experts and covers all meeting and travel expenses for participants to attend sessions. For 2026, there are 7 participants: Mariah Bullock, DVM, Hannah Grant, DVM, John Grealish, DVM, Jeffrey Hess, DVM, Alison Lindsay, DVM, Momo Tanaka, DVM and Heather Tillson, DVM.
2026 Integrative Medicine Virtual CE Weekend January 24-25, 2026
NYSVMS
The 2026 Integrative Medicine Virtual CE Weekend will be held January 24-25, 2026 on Integrative Approaches to Tick-Borne Diseases. It will be live on Zoom and you will earn 12 CE Credits. Elevate your clinical skills this January with a focused weekend of evidence-based integrative medicine. The 2026 Integrative Medicine Virtual CE Weekend brings together leading experts in nutrition, botanical medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine to tackle one of the most challenging areas in small-animal practice: tick-borne diseases. Across two days, you’ll explore practical, multimodal strategies to better diagnose, manage, and treat Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, and other co-infections. Sessions cover everything from immune-supportive nutrition and herbal therapeutics to TCM frameworks that help you understand and treat complex, chronic cases. This program is ideal for veterinarians looking to expand their toolbox and gain clinically applicable skills that enhance patient outcomes—without leaving home. Earn 12 hours of high-quality CE, connect with colleagues across New York and beyond, and walk away with new approaches you can put into practice immediately. Strengthen your integrative practice. Improve outcomes for your tick-borne disease patients. Join us live online January 24–25, 2026. Register now at: https://members.nysvms.org/events/2026imseminar.
Remembering Minnie—a little horse with a big following
Cornellians
In what’s arguably the finest episode of the 2010s sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” the town gathers for a memorial service after the sudden passing of its much-loved miniature horse, Li’l Sebastian. The solemn-yet-joyful candlelit ceremony winds up a recurring storyline whose humor springs from the fact that a new resident can’t fathom why an entire community is so enchanted by—why it absolutelyadores—one tiny equine. But as many Cornellians well know, anyone who doesn’t get it—who doesn’t understand how a small horse can capture the hearts of many—just never had the chance to meet Minnie.
Pressing pause: A small genetic stop with big consequences
Cornell Chronicle
Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That “it” is a small pause at the start of gene activity – a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals. A newstudy [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-025-01718-y]by Charles Danko, associate professor in life science and technology at Cornell’s Baker Institute for Animal Health and in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and colleagues explores how this key step in gene regulation – promoter-proximal pausing – evolved across species.
Veterinary survey about perioperative and postoperative antibiotic use in dogs
NC State University CVM
Erin Frey, a veterinarian and professor at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine is part of a group of veterinarians from the International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases (ISCAID) recruiting participants for a research study to learn more about veterinarians’ preferences for perioperative and postoperative antimicrobial use in dogs. To participate you must be 18 years or older and be a licensed veterinarian who treats dogs to participate in this study. To access the survey click on the link below or copy and paste the link into your web browser: https://ncsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6Ka8D2z7DF9ZyGa. This survey should take approximately 10 minutes. Completing this survey is voluntary and the data collected about you from this survey will be stored in accordance with the North Carolina State University data protection standards. This study has been approved by North Carolina State University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB), protocol #28763. If you have any questions about the survey, how it is implemented, or the research study, please contact Erin at erin_frey@ncsu.edu [erin_frey@ncsu.edu]. If you have questions about your rights as a participant or are concerned with your treatment throughout the research process, please contact the NC State University IRB Director at IRB-Director@ncsu.edu [IRB-Director@ncsu.edu] or (919) 515-8754.
NAVLE will undergo independent audit
AVMA
The 2024-25 testing cycle for the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination (NAVLE) saw a record-number of 9,301 examinations administered, a 51% increase over the past five years. The test has been administered by the International Council for Veterinary Assessment (ICVA) since 2000, and is developed in cooperation with the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). It is offered at Prometric computer testing centers throughout North America and certain international locations during three annual testing windows: October-November, March, and July-August.
Wildlife likely spread H5N1 to Wisconsin dairy herd
AVMA
The recent detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (type A H5N1) in a Wisconsin dairy herd has resulted from a new wildlife-to-cattle transmission distinct from earlier outbreaks, according to a genetic analysis by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The virus confirmed as H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b genotype D1.1 was detected in a herd of approximately 500 cows in Dodge County through the National Milk Testing Strategy (NMTS), according to a December 19 statement from the USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories.
New guidelines call for earlier diagnosis, intervention in feline dental disease
AVMA
The Feline Veterinary Medical Association (FelineVMA) has published new comprehensive guidelines that raise the bar for oral health care in cats by providing evidence-based recommendations spanning diagnosis, treatment, anesthesia, prevention, and client communication. Appearing in the November issue of the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, the 2025 FelineVMA Feline Oral Health and Dental Care Guidelines is the most detailed resource on feline dentistry to date, outlining advances in tooth resorption classification, earlier intervention for feline chronic gingivostomatitis (FCGS), and structured referral pathways.
Texas Tech to launch its first food animal residency program amid rural vet shortage
DVM360
The Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine is creating its first food animal residency program. The program, backed by a $250,000 grant from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), aims to address the shortage of veterinarians in rural and agriculture communities, the school said in a news release last week.
What we know about Selenium needs in mules
The Horse
Are mules extra sensitive to selenium? Does too much selenium cause hoof problems? What are the symptoms of excess selenium?
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