AVMA News

JUNE 24, 2024

The good news is Dr. Google’s days appear to be numbered. The bad news is Dr. Google is being replaced by the superior ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) language model trained on vast amounts of data and designed to give human-like text responses to user questions.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

News cats New York City' Shirley Koshi was a woman who devoted her life to caring for animals and sought to prevent a cat from the miseries of living out-of-doors. She was cyber-bullied, her business was destroyed, and she took her own life. Rest in peace, Dr. Shirley Koshi. Hat-tip to 10,000 Birds reader Ben.

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AVMA News

MARCH 15, 2023

The AVMA and the American Psychiatric Association are joining forces in March to call attention to the mental health benefits of having an animal companion.

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AVMA News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Businesses that embrace empathy and innovation will remain competitive in a transformative age driven by artificial intelligence, according to futurist Anders Sörman-Nilsson.

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AVMA News

APRIL 4, 2025

Mass firings at the Department of Health and Human Services on April 1 have included nearly 150 Food and Drug Administrations Center for Veterinary Medicine staff members, many of whom are veterinarians.

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AVMA News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The ongoing epizootic of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, more specifically avian influenza type A H5N1) has sparked concerns among health officials because of the viruss ability to infect diverse animal species, including pigs, big cats, and humans, raising fears of a potential pandemic.

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AVMA News

JANUARY 3, 2024

With today’s technological advancements, researchers are calling for a concerted effort to gather big data on aging dogs to benefit not only veterinary care, but also to inform human medicine, as dogs and humans share similar medical conditions as they age

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

There is a virtual flock of new and interesting bird science news all of the sudden, including the rediscovery of an extinct Bahama Nuthatch. It was always thought that humans first inhabited the island of Madagascar about four or five thousand years ago or so. If they are the only evidence of humans, then not fine.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

Thanks to a little human intervention, the future looks much brighter for Millerbirds. And if that’s not enough good news for you, this just in: a brand-new bird species (the Cambodian Tailorbird , one of only two endemics in the country) has been discovered living right in Cambodia’s capitol city of Phnom Penh !

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AVMA News

JANUARY 23, 2024

The connection between attitudes toward human and pet vaccines and how those of some people are changing is forcing veterinary professionals to more frequently explain the benefits of vaccines for pets.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

Or maybe you need to watch out for drunken humans who think they are owls driving cars ? News owls' Either way, claiming as your alibi that you are an owl in a tree after crashing your car while drunk and running into the woods to escape the police is probably not going to work.

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AVMA News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He explains the differences between the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in veterinary medicine and human medicine, the concept of AI use risk classification, and how to foster the ethical deployment of AI in veterinary medicine.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The latest edition of Science News delves into the work of scientists studying this problem. Proposed solutions include creating glass with images that reflect ultraviolet light (which many birds can see but humans can’t), or that features dots or stripes barely visible to the human eye.

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AVMA News

MAY 28, 2024

Ringworm infections caused by the novel Trichophyton indotineae fungus have been reported in human populations worldwide, including the United States. Now public health officials are asking veterinarians to be on the lookout infections in their patients.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2015

The findings of this research, as summarized by Discover Magazine : Zebra Finches are a good proxy for studying human speech. They also believe their results demonstrate the bird’s potential for further studies of how alcohol affects human speech. News alcohol birdsong Zebra Finches'

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AVMA News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

More than 100 monoclonal antibodies (mAb) designed to bind to specific target proteins are available for humans, including those intended to treat cancer and autoimmune disorders.

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AVMA News

APRIL 19, 2024

Published February 8, the WHO List of Medically Important Antimicrobials adds new categories on the basis of their importance in human medicine, risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and the potential human health implications of inappropriate use in nonhuman sectors, particularly in animal agriculture.

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AVMA News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Four dogs at the San Diego Humane Society (SDHS) have been euthanized after being infected with Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus (also known as Strep zoo), which was complicated by infection with bacterial agents.

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AVMA News

JULY 16, 2024

On June 23, Steven Feldman, president of the Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI), moderated the session “International Steering Group on Pets and Housing Issues” at AVMA Convention 2024, held June 21-25 in Austin, Texas.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 25, 2010

Rats help save humans. Tags: news. The sizeable rodents are helping to detect tuberculosis (TB). Read more about these amazing rats and the work they are doing by visiting the full article here. originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on April 25, 2010.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

A European Starling in New Zealand made the news this week. This particular species is not native to New Zealand (similar to its status in North America). The bird is now bonded to humans and an ambassador to her class and the bird has quite the vocabular y. This is not the first talking European Starling on YouTube.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

Common Ravens tend to avoid nesting around lots of humans. News Common Raven nesting birds webcam Wellesley' Now you can add another one to the list: the Ravencam, in the unlikeliest of places—the campus of Wellesley College , just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. But clearly, this pair was looking for attention.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The bird flu, in Asia, has been out of the news but that’s just because the news ignores anything that happens for more than three days in a row that is not an election. The RSPB and the University of Exeter have teamed up to make this amazing footage using lightweight cameras strapped onto the back of gannets.

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AVMA News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The AVMA has updated its disaster preparedness guides that help not only pet owners but also farmers be ready to safeguard their animals in the event of extreme weather events or human-made disasters.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

From the San Jose Mercury News. A Menlo Park research facility Monday refused to allow a humane society representative to check up on a monkey that bit a female lab worker the day before. Tags: animal research humane society primates. If the incident is insignificant, then why deny access?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2014

In either case, they’ve got a travel history that would leave most humans’ passports in the dust. News geotagging migration Red-necked Phalarope Scotland UK' The researchers theorize that these birds might not be strays from the Scandinavian Phalarope population, but instead perhaps originally from North America.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2014

But sometimes, what’s best for the birds and what’s best for the humans collide. In the United States, a few of those conundrums are making news. In the New York metro area, not-quite-hurricane Sandy unleashed a significant amount of devastation back in October 2012, with storm surge and severe flooding along shorelines.

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AVMA News

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine announced a recall of Megadyne grounding pads due to potential burn risk with veterinary use of the human medical devices.

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AVMA News

MARCH 6, 2023

The National Institutes of Health created the Comparative Oncology Program two decades ago to advance the study of naturally occurring cancer in dogs, aiming to improve cancer treatment for canine and human patients alike.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2012

The latest news from IUCN Redlist regarding birds is not good.

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AVMA News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, a health-care expert and author, shared the benefits of serving others during the keynote “Unpacking Lessons from Human Medicine” on October 25 at the 2023 AVMA Veterinary Business and Economic Forum.

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AVMA News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

That includes the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF), which has given a $20,000 grant to the Maui Humane Society, a $10,000 grant to Greater Good Charities, and an $19,000 estate gift to the Hawaii VMA so that the organizations can help recover and treat animals in need.

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AVMA News

JUNE 12, 2023

Smoke from the worst wildfire season in Canada's history has been triggering air quality alerts throughout the United States, threatening human and animal health.

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AVMA News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommended that it be controlled in the Schedule III rather than the current Schedule I, the most restrictive CSA category. Legislators are seeking to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) after the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

After all, what was thought as its habitat was heavily deteriorated and converted to agriculture as the human population grew. The amazing news went across the world. News anchor Walter Cronkite made an official announcement during prime time national news in the US. Photo: Fernando Angulo Pratolongo.

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AVMA News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Borkowski will serve as the new CEO of AAALAC International, a nonprofit that promotes the humane treatment of animals in science through voluntary accreditation and assessment programs. Starting in October, Dr. Gary L.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The “clickbait” title for this post could well have been “The gays are making our bears queer” but no, this is a book review, not a cable news show. It is however, a review with a high potential for offense, hurt feelings and other emotional drama that normally drives us all into fields and woods to watch birds.

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