Wrap up: Can clients take their pet's medication? And other veterinary news

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Happy Friday dvm360 readers! We loved getting to see all of you at our Fetch Long Beach conference last week. Although that is a wrap on Fetch conferences for 2024, Fetch Charlotte is right around the corner and will be here before you know it! You can check out all our 2025 Fetch conferences, including a new location, and register here today.

Here is what was popular this week on dvm360.com:

• Long time veterinarian and dvm360 columnists Marc Rosenberg, VMD, shared his final installment of his monthly column, The Dilemma, to provide readers with the 5 most significant recommendations he would like to pass on to the veterinary industry after spending over 50 years as a veterinarian.
• In the latest installment of Pet Poison Helpline’s (PPH) Toxin Tails, Renee Schmid, DVM, DABT, DABVT, senior toxicologist and director of veterinary medicine, shares why clients should not be taking their pets medication, despite sounding and appearing the same as their human medications.
• On this week’s episode of The Vet Blast Podcast presented by dvm360, host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, sat down with Jessica Vogeslang, DVM, CVJ, to discuss the role telemedicine and social media play in the current veterinary medicine landscape.
• A member of the Provincial Parliament in Ontario, Canada, announced the introduction of The Captive Wildlife Protection Act, which would require licensing for zoos, ban the use of wildlife for certain activities, and more as a way to fill the gap in provincial regulations of wildlife animals living in a zoo setting.
• During an interview with dvm360, Kelley Detweiler and Peter Weinstein, DVM, MBA, shared the latest developments for xylazine regulation in the United Kingdom, and the implications this could mean for the veterinary profession.
• A recent study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science found that microRNAs can be useful for identifying myxomatous mitral valve disease in canine patients. The research collected serum and plasma profiles from 123 dogs and focused on 15 specific miRNA markers.
• And more!