This map represents a state-by-state report of legislation influencing the veterinary profession. Simply roll over the map to view updates for each state.

August 14, 2008
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Raleigh, N.C. -- North Carolina has a new veterinary medical board member.

August 1, 2008
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Editor's Note: Understanding consumer behavior can help you as a clinician and business manager. DVM Newsmagazine asked five veterinary market leaders to join this year's DVM Newsmakers' Summit at CVC East in Baltimore. Following is the last of three excerpts from the panel discussion.

August 1, 2008 By:
Rachael Whitcomb
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Sacramento, Calif. — Municipalities won't be able to ban state-sanctioned medical practices if a proposed bill passes in California.

August 1, 2008 By:
Rachael Whitcomb
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Impotent might be the best word to describe a law that would have required almost every cat and dog older than 4 months to be spayed or neutered before the measure was dramatically altered on the California Senate floor.

August 1, 2008 By:
Christopher J. Allen, DVM, JD
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Veterinary school and law-school training actually have quite a bit in common. For example, when I finished each, I soon realized just how huge was the volume of practical things I needed to know but did not.

July 1, 2008
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Camden, N.J. — A federal judge approved a $24 million settlement hammered out a week earlier, aimed at compensating owners of thousands of pets that were sickened or killed by tainted pet foods last year.

July 1, 2008 By:
Christopher J. Allen, DVM, JD
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The demands upon us continue to increase with each advance in technological sophistication.

July 1, 2008 By:
Christina Macejko
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Mexico — Armed with a book called "The Peaceful Pill," foreign tourists are heading to Mexico to purchase pentobarbital from veterinary-supply stores and backstreet pet shops near the U.S. border.
