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AVMA Seeks Member Input To Shape Strategic Plan

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is asking for input from its members to help shape the future of the association and the profession. The AVMA is initiating this "Future Critical Issues Scan" as part of its ongoing effort to reevaluate and revise its strategic plan, which was last approved by the AVMA Executive Board in April 2008...
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AVMA Calls For Stronger Animal Disease Traceability System

In response to a statement by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is reaffirming its call for a strong, national animal disease traceability program to help maintain and improve the health of U.S. livestock. Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is creating a new strategy for animal disease traceability...
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American Veterinary Medical Association Seeks Leaders For New Task Force, Vision Commission

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is looking for volunteer leaders to fill positions on two important new boards: the Task Force on AVMA Programs for Students and Recent Graduates and the AVMA 20/20 Vision Commission...
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U.S. Veterinarians Join Coalition To Help Haiti

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) have joined a coalition of other animal health and welfare groups to help address the ongoing humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti following the January 12 earthquake that devastated the country...
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Survival Of The Fittest Or Survival Of The Cutest

Domestic dogs have followed their own evolutionary path, twisting Darwin's directive 'survival of the fittest' to their own needs - and have proved him right in the process, according to a new study by biologists Chris Klingenberg, of The University of Manchester and Abby Drake, of the College of the Holy Cross in the US...
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