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Las Vegas -- More than 4,000 veterinarians, veterinary students and technicians are expected for the 55th annual convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) Dec. 5-9 at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

Fort Worth, Texas -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has an ongoing program offering $500 to those who adopt mature horses 4 to 10 years old from public lands as part of National Wild Horse Adoption Day Sept. 26.

National Report -- A new application for the iPhone may help veterinarians track the spread of infectious diseases like the H1N1 virus and West Nile virus.

Whitehouse Station, N.J. -- Global pharmaceutical company Sanofi-aventis is now sole owner of Merial Ltd. after purchasing Merck & Co.?s remaining 50 percent interest for $4 billion.

National Report -- Dog bites accounted for one-third of all homeowner insurance liability claims in 2008, according to data collected by the nonprofit Insurance Information Institute.

A consumer group has identified high levels of toxins such as lead in a variety of common products, including those for pets.

Lenoir, N.C. -- Dr. Beth Jones, a veterinarian from Lenoir, N.C., announced she will run for the state Senate in 2010, attempting to unseat District 44 Sen. Jim Jacumin (R-Burke).

Clients expect that practitioners can easily treat their exotic pets, but veterinarians typically have much less experience treating them than they have treating dogs and cats.

FDA warns against importation or compounding of trilostane following the approval of Vetoryl.

Veterinarians may want to get in line early to receive the H1N1 vaccines recently approved by FDA.

The number of rabies-infected cats was almost four times that of rabies-infected dogs in the United States in 2008, according to a new report from the American Veterinary Medical Association.

The AVMA is dipping into its reserves to fund travel expenses for next year's HOD sessions.

The number of rabies-infected cats was almost four times that of dogs in 2008.

This week, the Pilots N Paws program aims to rescue 5,000 shelter animals.

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In her book "Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know," Alexandra Horowitz tries to help us all experience things from a dog's eye view.

Anderson, Ind. -- A suspected contagious infection in two Thoroughbred racehorses resulted in the quarantine of those two and 57 other horses at Anderson's Hoosier Park racetrack north of Indianapolis.

A veterinary researcher and a biologist believe they've found a more effective method of collecting snake venom and also may have shed some new light on evolution.

A Kansas State University professor provides guidelines for getting pets in shape.

Fort Collins, Colo. -- The new Diagnostic Medicine Center at Colorado State University is now operational, enabling the university to help monitor the health of animals and wildlife in the state and research new approaches to disease intervention and prevention.

St. Louis, Mo. -- Purina Horse Feed has donated $10,000 to help repair hurricane damage to a horse research center at Southern Illinois University -- Carbondale (SIUC).

Owners exercising with their pets not only improves the health of both but can strengthen the human-animal bond.

Oklahoma City, Okla. -- New veterinarians who devote 30 percent of their practice to large animals now will be eligible for the Oklahoma Agricultural Linked Deposit Program.

Roseland, N.J. -- Veterinarians can help fight rabies in Africa between now and the end of the year through a special program backed by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health.

Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) cases during the first eight months of 2009 already have surpassed last year's total in the United States.

In memory of her husband who was killed in the World Trade Center tragedy, Cathy Carilli founded The Tower of Hope, which provides animal companions to soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Assuming H1N1 will be found in swine herds by fall, USDA is working to speed production of a vaccine for pigs.

Washington -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened the new Reportable Food Registry (RFR), an electronic portal that food-industry officials are now required to use to alert the FDA when they have reason to believe their products might sicken or kill humans or animals.

North Grafton, Mass. -- A new six-stall equine isolation ward at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University triples the capacity for patients at the infectious-disease unit.

A recent study examining the domestication of dogs hypothesizes that they may have been welcomed into the family for a different reason than you might think.