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NCVEI's interactive models reached 8,300 practices representing more than 22,000 veterinarians.

PHILADELPHIA—The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine's longest-serving dean will step down in October to rejoin the faculty. Dr. Alan M. Kelly will have served as dean for 12 years when he steps down in October, which coincides with a deadline for a Kresge Foundation challenge grant.

Most lesions wax and wane with or without therapy; so unpredictable ecurrence should be anticipated.

You can be sued by someone for virtually anything. The question is: Can they win?

SCHAUMBURG, ILL.—In an effort to streamline its media and public relations output, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) hired a new communications director.

CLEVELAND—A not-so-quiet war has been waged on unsuspecting researchers and doctors around the world. Though Europe largely has been affected the most severely, biomedical research companies and laboratories in the United States have endured their share of vigilante activism for decades.

The law fails to provide dog owners a meaningful opportunity to be heard on the issue.

IOWA CITY, IOWA—Hundreds of research animals were stolen from the University of Iowa's Spence Laboratories Nov. 14, when vandals took rodents, trashed computers and dumped chemicals throughout various wings of the facility. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) allegedly claimed responsibility for the theft and damage, which the university was unable to assess at presstime.

Under aerobic conditions, the intermediate product of glycogenolysis, pyruvic acid, follows an aerobic glycolysis pathway and eventually participates in the Citric-acid cycle or "Krebs cycle" that provides substrates (16 H+) for the oxidative phosphorylation. This oxidative phosphorylation provides a large amount of energy for the cells. Under anaerobic conditions, pyruvic acid follows a different route, the anaerobic glycolysis pathway, and the end-product of this complex cascade of reactions results in accumulation of lactate.

I guess that fellow just loved Pappy so much that he couldn't see his shortcomings.

STARKVILLE, MISS.— Breeding closely related horses might contribute to Hyperelastosis cutis (HC), which causes Quarter Horses' skin to weaken, wound easily and heal poorly with disfiguring scars.

Between 2002 and 2004, ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) staff members consulted on 158 cases of moth repellent ingestion. In most instances, the exposure was oral, but dermal and inhalation exposures were also reported. Naphthalene was the active ingredient in 83% of the cases, and paradichlorobenzene was the active ingredient in 17%.

ORLANDO—Dr. Craig E. Greene, DVM, MS, dipl. ACVIM, will receive the prestigious 2005 Mark L. Morris Sr. Lifetime Achievement Award this month at the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC).

WASHINGTON—As Mike Johanns prepares for Senate confirmation hearings following his Dec. 2 nomination as agriculture secretary, news about the two-term Nebraska governor's lifelong ties to animal agriculture emerges.

HA helps cells thrive, keeps joints lubricated, protects the retina and keeps skin smooth.

If I recommend that a pet have a growth removed, I shave the area around the growth, with permission from the owner.

After hearing comments that our stainless steel exam table was cold, we took the table to a local auto shop and had the mechanics apply a polyurethane lining used on truck beds (Rhino Linings).

Place a thin sock over the exhaust hose of your surgical prep vacuum to prevent stray hairs from flying around the prep room and contaminating your equipment and surgical site.

If you are having trouble getting a fractious cat out of its carrier and onto the scale, simply take the top off the carrier and hold the carrier top over the scale to create a different hiding place.

Each January, we print out a calendar for the next two years and write the expiration dates for all our injectable drugs, dispensed drugs, and test kits on the corresponding months.

Many veterinarians and technicians do not routinely evaluate blood films microscopically, largely because they lack confidence in either preparing a well-made blood film or in being able to accurately identify important abnormalities.

Practitioner Advisory Board member Dr. Gary Norsworthy recently sent us this photo of his hospital cat Buster. Dr. Norsworthy explained that Buster was exhausted after a hard day of entering data into the computer, answering phone calls, and reading important journal articles.

Lecia Microsystems introduces the Lecia DM1000 laboratory microscope, designed for custom-configuration for the needs of the everyday user.

CHICAGO-Practitioners living in Hawaii and Alaska have lost workers' compensation and property insurance provided by the American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA) Professional Liability Insurance Trust (PLIT).

Ask Dr. Shirley Johnston to describe her life's successes, and her roles as a wife and mother immediately come to mind.

Rescue Critters? introduces a model that allows students to practice and perfect farrier skills without injury or possibility of laming a horse or using a cadaver limb.

MADISON, WIS.-Using a gene resurrected from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, recorded history's most lethal outbreak of infectious disease, scientists have found that a single gene may have been responsible for the devastating virulence of the virus.

WILMINGTON, DEL.-The Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC), an independent group of U.S. veterinary, governmental and association leaders in the parasitology field, has voted to register as a not-for-profit organization.

Jorgensen Laboratories, Inc. introduces the Smoke Shark smoke evacuation system.

Elanco introduces Rumensin, (monensin sodium) the only U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved feed ingredient for use in lactating and dry cows that increases milk-production efficiency.