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New virtual lab at Tufts University simulates the full clinic experience

When Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans exactly 16 years to the day since Hurricane Katrina, the team at MedVet New Orleans jumped into action. Just over a year later, they are a finalist for the 2022 AAHA-Accredited Practice of the Year award.

Sometimes cancer is easy to diagnose and sometimes it takes months to arrive at an answer. To tackle an opponent as widespread and insidious as cancer, we need all the tools that modern science has to offer – and now, we have one more – liquid biopsy.

2013 AAHA/AAFP Fluid Therapy Guidelines for Dogs and Cats references

In the summer of 2019, Janice Huntingford, DVM, DACVSMR, was asked to teach continuing education classes on canine rehabilitation and pain management in China and Taiwan. She was not unsure of the subject matter, just the language barrier and the details veterinary medicine in China.

AAHA President Guylaine Charette, DMV, dives into the subject of culture and how it relates to the health of both your practice’s people and its finances. Dear AAHA answers a question on controlled substances, and we offer some ideas for celebrating AAHA-Accredited Hospital Day (July 22)!

Get ready for what could be the biggest advancement in the treatment of chronic pain since veterinary practitioners were able to add nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to their pain treatment toolbox. Anti–nerve growth factor monoclonal antibodies are on the horizon for the treatment of chronic pain in both dogs and cats.

Taking time to explore what is working best in a successful situation helps to identify the team’s strengths, best practices, and peak performances. Then, those strengths can be applied to designing a strategy to improve what is not working well elsewhere in the practice.

Using custom orthotics to treat a golden retriever with a CCL tear.

Abstracts from the latest issue of the Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association.