AVMA@Work – American Veterinary Medical Association

I’m sure you already know about the AVMA website overhaul, but the part that most excites me is the new Network of Animal Health (NOAH) discussions platform that will come with it. If you’re a current NOAH user, you know that the existing platform is cumbersome at best. We’ve been putting Band-Aids on the problems [...]

The AVMA’s Future Leaders are well into their yearlong program, and they are working hard to develop resources on leadership development for veterinarians. They are also working individually to enhance their leadership skills. We look forward to seeing the products they develop this year! They have some good things to say about their experience so [...]

Yesterday, several members of our social media team attended an all-day symposium in Chicago about social media for nonprofits, and it made me reminisce about the events that pulled us into social media in the first place. In January 2009, the FDA confirmed that an outbreak of salmonellosis in people was related to peanut butter [...]

We’ve received a request for help from an officer in the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), and your assistance would be greatly appreciated. In the past five years, the CDC has become aware of phosphine gas poisoning of veterinary staff involved in treating dogs that had ingested zinc phosphide, a common ingredient in household and [...]

Ever wonder what the “NADA” number on a drug bottle means? Or who you should file a report with if a patient reacts adversely to a drug? Veterinarians utilize drugs every day in the course of their clinical practice, yet the way drugs are regulated by the government is a mystery to many veterinarians. We’ve worked with Food [...]

Updating your membership profile is too important to ignore. Your colleagues, pet owners, government agencies and the animal-health industry look to the AVMA for a complete picture of the veterinary profession: where veterinarians are working, what they are doing, which animals they are caring for and trends occurring in specialty areas.  The information is used [...]

Last week Merial announced that current Immiticide® (melarsomine dihydrochloride) inventories will likely be depleted over the next month due to production issues. We’ve been in contact with the American Heartworm Society who just released a white paper with an interim set of guidelines for veterinarians faced with a shortage of Immiticide® (which Merial advised could last for [...]