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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AVMA News

JANUARY 16, 2025

On January 15, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a request for information (RFI) soliciting comments from practicing veterinarians related to the use of cannabis-derived products in animals. The focus of the RFI is on cannabidiol products and other products derived from hemp.

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AVMA News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The updated label recommendations from Association of American Feed Control Official were developed in conjunction with consumers and industry and are meant to help consumers make better informed decisions when purchasing pet food.

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AVMA News

JANUARY 8, 2025

The research aims to inform future support programs for early career vets. In 2021, the AVMA and the VIN Foundation collaborated on a study to investigate the financial challenges faced by new graduate veterinarians, including student loan debt.

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AVMA News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration has informed veterinarians and farmers that using aspirin in dairy cattle for treatment of highly pathogenic avian influenza is illegal.

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AVMA News

MAY 9, 2024

AVMA Convention 2024, taking place June 21-25 in Austin, Texas, promises a wealth of networking and educational opportunities, including robust programming centered on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), from special events to informative panels to continuing education (CE) sessions.

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AVMA News

JANUARY 14, 2025

The AVMA House of Delegates took on the topic of accreditation during its Veterinary Information Forum, held January 10 during its winter session in Chicago. Discussion focused primarily veterinary colleges and the AVMA Council on Education.

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AVMA News

JUNE 21, 2024

AVMA Convention 2024, taking place June 21-25 in Austin, Texas, promises a wealth of networking and educational opportunities, including robust programming centered on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), from special events to informative panels to continuing education (CE) sessions.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 5, 2023

The post Modernize Your Contact Information with Digital Business Cards appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. In the face of the ongoing push for digital transformation in the business world, digital business cards will drive the future of professional connectivity.

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AVMA News

JUNE 22, 2024

AVMA leaders discussed professional liability concerns and related issues Thursday during the AVMA House of Delegates’ (HOD) Veterinary Information Forum, including the program sponsored by the AVMA Professional Liability Insurance Trust (AVMA PLIT).

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AVMA News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The pet aftercare industry remains largely unregulated, and veterinarians are often the only source of information that pet owners have when choosing pet aftercare providers. There are many considerations for a veterinarian when it comes to handling pet remains and interacting with the pet owner during this sensitive time.

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AVMA News

MARCH 14, 2023

A persistent and potentially growing concern, according to experts, is the running of unsanctioned, informal horse races. Unregulated horse racing is dangerous for horses and riders, and diseases such as equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis can spread at these bush tracks.

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AVMA News

JUNE 22, 2024

In addition to professional liability, AVMA leaders on Thursday discussed the Association’s Model Veterinary Practice Act and the use of technology during the AVMA House of Delegates’ Veterinary Information Forum.

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MARCH 1, 2023

With the cannabidiol products market continuing to grow and after reviewing published scientific literature and information submitted to a public docket, an internal working group of the Food and Drug Administration concluded that a new regulatory pathway for cannabidiol is needed.

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AVMA News

AUGUST 22, 2023

Information technology professionals William Lindus and Andy Jonardi present on the Axon webinar, "Talking Tech with Your I.T. Team," which was released in late July.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Information about participation in the studies is available at the database site. Here are some of the most recent veterinary clinical studies listed in the AVMA’s Veterinary Clinical Trials Registry—formerly the AVMA Animal Health Studies Database—as of September 2024.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Birds were selected based on (1) information available; (2) information available elsewhere (thus an emphasis on altricial species and limited waterfowl coverage, since they can be found elsewhere); (3) species most commonly encountered. The scarcity of information on the young of some avian species is astounding.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2022

I routinely review recent eBird checklists for several of my local patches and recently noticed a few with weather information ( e.g. , temperature, wind, cloud cover, humidity, etc.) RainCrow then retrieves the weather information for the location during the time period of the checklist. from something called RainCrow.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2021

Based on analysis of other information (magazine subscriptions, Facebook “likes,” field guide sales, organizational memberships, etc.), Thus, we now have more granular information regarding American eBirders. Of course, this information is not perfect. I believe that FWS wildly overestimates the number of birders.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

It contains information about the resident and migratory shorebirds and also the Flatback turtles that nest along the coastline. Turtle nesting information. There is a caravan park at the beach if you want to stay a while. New signage has been installed at the beach in recent years.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed. He draws on his personal experiences to inform the history, geography, and especially the travel option sections. © Otto Plantema, used with permission. © Otto Plantema, used with permission.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2020

With no mobile signal out on the creek, the captain had not been able to inform his colleague on the jetty why they were delayed, nor for how long. ” “I was here an hour ago,” I graciously informed him through gritted teeth. .”You The captain had an informed spiel that he shouted over the roar of the engine.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2022

Not everybody needs a 1000% perfect accessible trail in order to enjoy birds and the outdoors, but one big barrier is not knowing the trail conditions or accessibility information ahead of time, and that’s a really common problem! Describing trails – or organized bird outings – as “easy” just isn’t enough information. Easy for who…?!).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2024

Apart from some limited description in the HBW, there is again rather limited information available on the species, perhaps because it does not usually live on university campuses and thus is not a preferred target for ornithologists. Yes, sometimes I have more photos that I want to show than useful information.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

It is pointedly not an identification guide, though there is a lot of identification information in it, and it is not a coffee table book, though every page is illustrated. I knew I was going to see stunning images, I didn’t expect so much natural history and identification information. 41; © 2024 by Pete Dunne and Kevin T.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

Go to the site and under Resources you’ll find a wealth of information: species-specific instructions on initial contact with injured/orphaned wildlife, how to mitigate threats to wildlife, how to reunite a baby with its parent. They will take your call, give you free advice, and even talk to the local operator in your area, if need be.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Given the very limited information available on the species in the HBW (e.g., section “Movement”: “No information”), this snowfinch looks like a good candidate for a Ph.D. The Tibetan Snowfinches we saw were not by the lakeshore but at a nearby slightly higher mountain pass.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2019

The review included substantial new information, including, for example, required size of habitat patches. FWS also determined that the petition did not “provide new substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that the petitioned action may be warranted….”.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

The website has some information regarding the trails , and the Friends of the Tualatin River NWR website has more. The refuge also has a writeup (including a video) on a website called Access Trails , which has accessibility information for 36 trails and parks in the Portland Metro Area.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

As with any NWR, for more information check its comprehensive conservation plan ( here ), and, if applicable, its Friends organization ( here ).). As a result, Nisqually NWR (or more formally: Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR) is one of Washington’s finest and most popular birding locations.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Before the eBird revolution, such near immediate bird sighting information for so much of the globe was never possible. Although various listed hotspots in Costa Rica are excellent sites, some may be better for certain birds or access than others and we just can’t know this information by looking at the hotspot list in eBird.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2024

So it comes as no surprise to me that I now seem to have formed an informal birding club, as a quite spontaneous development. Unfortunately, for the purposes of my blogging “career”, when I am an informal guide I tend to take less, and poorer, photos. And nobody was dissatisfied with the day’s total of 52 species.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Although we do enjoy it immensely, we are not doing it for fun, but to gather information on distribution, habitat choice and density of breeding pairs. European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 presents information on all species reported to breed in the study period (2013 to 2017) and some with more uncertain breeding status.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2024

It’s also about personal journeys, where knowledge comes from and how it is shared, investigating the past through the lens of history and the lens of informed imagination, learning how to negotiate the grays of our ornithological heritage, and the magic of discovery. I really enjoyed these sections.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. In providing this information, they quote extensively from an ornithology book that was published 3 years before I was born (and I am not a young man).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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