Register for the NYSVMS Veterinary Care Fund webinar on March 19th
NYSVMS
NYSVMS is launching the New York State Veterinary Care Fund with a webinar on March 19th from 7-8 PM. The Fund will help veterinarians provide care to sick and injured pets whose caregivers can’t afford the full cost of treatment. It will operate through regional funds that are overseen by their regional veterinary medical associations. Hudson Valley VMS and Southern Tier VMA have come on board and are receiving $5,000 each from NYSVMS to help start providing grants to members. Please join us to learn more and to meet the Committee Chair, Stephanie Janeczko, DVM, DABVP, and other committee members. You will learn how to get started in your region and how you and your hospital can get involved. Go to the brand-new foundation website to learn more at: https://nysvms.org/foundation/.
College hosts fifth annual Spay Day for community cats
Cornell University CVM
Soft meows and gentle purrs were the soundtrack to the fifth annual Spay Day at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Feb. 17. Not only does Spay Day provide spay/neuter services for 50 cats belonging to members of the community, but it also creates a hands-on clinical opportunity for veterinary students.
Tiny but mighty: babies use their immune system differently but efficiently
Cornell University CVM
It was long believed that a newborn’s immune system was an immature version of an adult’s; now, researchers show that newborns instead use their T cells differently than adults. These results help clarify why adults and infants respond differently to infections, and pave the way for controlling T cells’ behavior for therapeutic applications. This discovery, made by Dr. Brian Rudd, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and Andrew Grimson, professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently published in the journal Science Immunology.
Home delivery, autoship important offerings for veterinary clients
AVMA
For many customers, if it’s not extremely convenient, then it’s inconvenient, says Richard Hayworth, a senior consultant with Brakke Consulting. In an online, convenience-focused, post-pandemic world, people can make purchases from their phone instantly, so that is now the expectation. Generation Z, in particular, prefer ordering online and home delivery. But so do elderly and chronically ill people, along with those who have social anxiety or can’t easily leave their homes, such as new parents. Hayworth says veterinary practices are in a good position to serve these customers if they would just promote their online services more.
Survey results show overall salary increases for veterinary staff members
AVMA
Veterinary hospitals are paying their hospital administrators and certified veterinary practice managers more than they did two years ago, recent survey results suggest. In December, the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association (VHMA) announced the findings from its 2023 compensation and benefits survey. It was distributed to 4,163 members of the VHMA and Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society with responses from 275 veterinary practices and 3,289 nonveterinarian hospital staff members. The median salary for hospital administrators rose about 13%—from $75,000 to $85,000—compared to the 2021 survey responses. The median salary for practice managers increased about 8%, from $60,000 to $65,000.
Veterinary community grants wish for animal-loving girl with cancer
AVMA
Like many new veterinary graduates, Mary Stegmueller has a deep love of animals. The difference is she’s 7 years old. Stegmueller was diagnosed at 4 with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a rare form of cancer that targets the brain stem. She’s fought her original nine-month prognosis for more than three years. National Veterinary Associates’ (NVA) Community Pet Hospital’s (CPH) in Thornton, Colorado, has cared for her family’s cats for more than a decade. Stegmueller’s mother, Kristin, happened to mention at an appointment for their cat, Freyja, that her daughter’s dream is to be a veterinarian and she was worried Mary wouldn’t be able to achieve that.
African union bans devasting donkey skin trade
Brooke
The African Union has opted to ban the donkey skin trade after years of tireless lobbying by Brooke, signaling an end to the legal slaughter of hundreds of thousands of donkeys within the continent. Over the last decade, Africa has seen its donkey population decimated due to Chinese demand for ejiao, a gelatin used in Traditional Chinese Medicine that is made from boiling down donkey skins. Believed to have unsubstantiated health benefits, demand for ejiao has obliterated China’s own donkey population, leading to huge export industries elsewhere – namely Africa and South America.
Texas A&M veterinary team is helping animals affected by wildfires
DVM360
An emergency response team from Texas A&M University School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) has been deployed to the Texas panhandle, where a cluster of wildfires are affecting animals. The largest of 5 fires in the region, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, was spread over 850,000 acres on Wednesday, according to VMBS; and 60 Texas counties were placed under a disaster declaration by Gov. Greg Abbott.
Nutritional support for horses with cellulitis
The Horse
My horse gets frequent bouts of cellulitis. I work closely with my vet to treat and prevent this medically, but is there anything I can do to support our efforts through his diet? Cellulitis is a bacterial infection that involves both the connective tissue and the fat tissue, most frequently presenting in the lower limb of the horse, and can be a challenging health issue. There are multiple causes of the condition; however, the infection normally enters the body through small (often undetectable) microtraumas on the skin surface.
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