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“Accreditation isn’t just about checking boxes off a task list—it’s a process of continuous improvement,” said AAHA CEO Garth Jordan. "All the finalists are committed to not only being the best they can be, but to raising that bar year after year to keep up with changes to medicine and practice management."

PETS Signed Into Law, Gives Emergency Plans Boost

A pharmaceutical company in the UK is voluntarily recalling 34 lots of veterinary injectable drug products due to sterility concerns, according to the FDA. Norbrook Laboratories in Newry, Northern Ireland, issued the recall May 24, that if the sterility of these drugs has been compromised, using them could introduce infectious agents to the animals.

Veterinarians Required to Provide Immediate Supervision to RVTs, Assistants when Controlled Drugs ar

Several newsworthy items relating to the veterinary world have come out of California recently.

Always held on July 22, AAHA-Accredited Hospital Day is a chance to say thank you to the veterinary teams who work at accredited practices throughout the world.

Before opening Four Seasons Veterinary Specialists in Loveland, Colorado, Tara Britt, VMD, DACVS, and Jennifer Lowry, DVM, MS, DACVR, each had their own veterinary businesses in the area.   

After receiving adverse reports involving five animals, Australia-based Jurox Animal Health voluntarily recalled two lots of the widely used intravenous injectable anesthetic Alfaxan unpreserved last week, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The reason for the recall: The presence of aluminum phosphate precipitate, which, when injected, presents a possible risk of blood vessel inflammation and formation of potentially life-threatening blood clots.

You could have a say on the future of veterinary education. The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Council on Education (COE) Selection Committee is seeking interested and qualified veterinarians to serve on the council. Per the AVMA, “This is one of the most important volunteer roles that AVMA members can fill.”

Say the US Food and Drug administration has issued another pet food recall. Some animals are dying. Are your patients at risk? Imagine being able to comb through all your patient records with a couple of keystrokes and identify how many patients in the last month came in presenting with the same set of gastrointestinal symptoms. Scientists at Stanford University teamed up with veterinarians at Colorado State University (CSU) College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to develop