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Now awaiting Senate approval, the PAST Act will ensure higher penalties for those who inflict pain on horses to accentuate their gait during competitions.

The veterinary associate shortage hasnt left the emergency medicine sector unscathed. Heres a look at why the number of emergency/critical care job openings is outpacing the number of veterinarian and veterinary technician applicants and whats being done to fill these open positions.

The veterinary world has their own chicken-and-egg debate on when to run what and at what value when it comes to running diagnostics or waiting for an illness to show up. So which side is right?

SB 627 would allow veterinarians to discuss cannabis and related products with clients without fear of sanctions.

Pre-visit client education and exam-room visibility and efficiency make this practice owners vaccine and wellness visits healthy, happy and profitable.

After your hospitals veterinarian has explained the need for a product or pharmaceutical, dont hand off your clients to websites, pet store employees and big-box aisles and aisles of competing products. If this is the right product for this pet, carry it. The sales will follow.

The animal health company looks to raise awareness among pet owners about skin disease in dogs and cats and to encourage veterinary hospitals to initiate client discussions about itch behavior.

Before you show up to talk to your accountant, your architect, your builder or your engineer at the Hospital Design Conference or your own town, you need these. Nothings worse than an, oh, thats at home! conversation to start off your big hospital build.

When a veterinary team member messes up left and right, but is still looked upon through rose-colored glasses by doctors and managers, what can be done?

Your anti-vaxxer veterinary client might never change their minds, but you can try a few different approaches.

As a veterinary professional, you've probably witnessed poor training here, there, everywhere. Which is why you know that an experienced, qualified dog training professional is hugely valuable to dog owners and can make a world of difference for your canine patients. Use this tool to help lead veterinary clients in the right direction.

Veterinarians and veterinary students on Facebook told us long hours were a given to get into the profession. But are they good for practitioners, patients and the learning process?

Whether your veterinary practice is equine, mixed or small animal-only, you have a responsibility to recruit and retain an associate that meshes well with your clients, your team and, most importantly, your patients.

Your veterinary client is baring their teeth on social mediaor even in person. Heres the first thing to do in either case.

If you want more transparency in your veterinary hospitals design, plan ahead to avoid distracting patients.

If Gov. Cuomo signs the bill passed by the state Assembly, New York will impose a civil penalty of $1,000 on people who perform onychectomies, partial or complete phalangectomies, or tendonectomies on cats without a therapeutic purpose.

Practices are fighting to hire veterinary associates today. Could that lead to unsustainable salaries as we compete for hires?

Veterinary practice owners: Here are five things you or a trusted practice manager can watch regularly to make sure raising prices isnt the only way your practice survives.

You, dear veterinary professional, dont go out looking to be bitten or scratched, yet you probably have some sort of battle scar from a bad encounter. Heres how to prevent any more from happening in the future.

Every veterinary practice buyer has different needs and wants, but if you nail these 12 items, yours is a hospital anybodyd love to buy.

Many veterinary practices have seen their pharmacy sales for oral and topical drugs shrink. Have you explored all the injectables on the market?

Did you think youd be fielding this many nutrition questions in the veterinary clinic? Neither did your colleagues, according to the 2019 dvm360 Nutrition Study.

With 15 years at two previous strip-mall locations under his belt, Dr. Bradley Petersen turned Petersen Pet Hospital into the AAHA-certified, Fear Free practice of his dreams. His clients, patients and employees appreciate the Merit Award-winning hospital in this years 2019 dvm360 Hospital Design Competition.

I think that we well-meaning, hard-working veterinarians sabotage our own happiness, job satisfaction and personal health by doing these five things.

Some of us expect happiness to fall into our laps. Some expect it to never come. I think theres another way to think about being happy.

Its hard to take a vacation as a veterinary practice owner, but I wouldve missed the nicest folks, the prettiest nature and a snapshot of a funny Florida lady and a U.S. vice president if I hadnt taken time off.

After I shared my own story with the veterinary world regarding depression and suicidal thoughts, I learned how valuable it is to be there for that person and how an inch can, in fact, be a mile.

When this veterinary practice owner decides to extend his clinics hours to include Sundays, its met with doubt and concern.

Find out how often veterinarians discuss nutrition with clients, how often clients ask and the biggest prompt for discussion in this data from the 2019 dvm360 Nutrition Study.

Sit. Stay. Stress. Good boy! If youre suffering from chronic stress, your dogs feeling it too, a new study says. Here are the details veterinary professionals need to know.