Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association - JAVMA

12/10/2025

Improve your ability to identify oral abnormalities and perform comprehensive oral assessments from this JAVMA Technical Tutorial Video: https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.25.08.0538 🦷

12/10/2025

Whether its responsible integration of artificial intelligence into practice operations, advocating for veterinary access to xylazine, or opposing creation of a midlevel practitioner, the AVMA remains focused on issues that matter to its members and the future of the veterinary profession.

AVMA Board of Directors Chair Dr. Sandy Willis spoke with AVMA News on the previously mentioned topics along with other key priorities for the Association: supporting credentialed veterinary technicians, expanding the Journey for Teams program, enhancing the certification process and platform for foreign-trained veterinarians, and reducing barriers to care through the development of practical tools and a centralized web resource.

AVMA News recently interviewed Dr. Sandy Willis, AVMA Board of Directors chair, halfway through her term. She discussed the strategic initiatives, advocacy priorities, and programs underway at the AVMA to make those priorities a reality.

12/10/2025

It's "What is Your Diagnosis?" Wednesday!

What are your differential diagnoses for a 17-year-old neutered male domestic shorthair cat that was presented for evaluation of a single new onset geriatric grand mal seizure? 🐈

Full case: jav.ma/seizures

12/09/2025

Benign additional liver masses frequently occur in dogs with primary liver masses. 🐕

Open access article: jav.ma/liver

12/09/2025

The United Kingdom’s top competition regulator and consumer-protection watchdog is calling for sweeping changes across the country’s veterinary services market.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published the “Veterinary Services for Household Pets Market Investigation Provisional Decision Report,” in October. The report includes a package of 21 proposed reforms that would overhaul pricing, information access, regulatory oversight, and the way veterinary businesses operate.

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons welcomed the recommendation of the CMA to introduce legislation that will enable the effective and enforceable regulation of veterinary practices and pricing, among other new provisions.

Click the link in our bio to read the full article, “UK watchdog proposes major changes in veterinary services market”

12/09/2025

The United Kingdom’s top competition regulator and consumer-protection watchdog is calling for sweeping changes across the country’s veterinary services market.

The Competition and Markets Authority published the “Veterinary Services for Household Pets Market Investigation Provisional Decision Report,” in October. The report includes a package of 21 proposed reforms that would overhaul pricing, information access, regulatory oversight, and the way veterinary businesses operate.

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons welcomed the recommendation of the CMA to introduce legislation that will enable the effective and enforceable regulation of veterinary practices and pricing, among other new provisions.

The United Kingdom’s top competition regulator and consumer-protection watchdog is calling for sweeping changes across the country’s veterinary services market. The Competition and Markets Authority published a report this fall that includes a package of 21 proposed reforms that would overhaul p...

12/06/2025

It's Spotlight Saturday! ✨

Learn how Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine aims to graduate practice-ready, confident veterinarians for rural and regional communities: jav.ma/ttu

12/05/2025

Introducing the December JAVMA cover art! 🎨

“Portrait of a Bull” (36 x 36 in; oil on canvas) was created by Ryan Perea in 2023.

Ryan Perea is an artist and art teacher based in Covington, Louisiana. While living in New York City in his 20s, he began studying traditional drawing and painting with Rob Zeller at the Teaching Studios of Art in Brooklyn. He then moved back home to Louisiana to pursue a career as an artist. Mr. Perea has been teaching art for the past 10 years and recently became the owner and operator of Armbruster Artworks, a gallery and art school in Covington. He has always been drawn to dramatic images of animals with interesting lighting, which inspired the painting on this month’s cover.

12/05/2025

Have you had a chance to read the December JAVMA supplemental issue, “Weighing the Evidence and the Options: Spectrum of Care”?

The latest American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) blog offers a thoughtful overview of what readers can expect from this important issue—highlighting the evidence, perspectives, and practical approaches that support more accessible veterinary care:

How do you turn spectrum of care from a concept into day-to-day clinical practice? JAVMA’s latest supplement delivers research, case examples, and skills you can use right away—plus a bonus technical tutorial video.

12/05/2025

The AVMA’s Steering Committee on Human-Animal Interaction created the new proposed policy on “Animal Training and Early Exposure” after discussions earlier this spring about the critical role that training and early exposure have on how animals react to both their usual environment and when receiving veterinary care. The AVMA House of Delegates (HOD) will convene January 8-9 to consider this proposed policy along with another proposed policy on camelid castration, plus amendments to Bylaws.

The Veterinary Information Forum preceding the HOD’s annual session will feature discussions on HOD membership criteria and veterinary technician education.

The AVMA House of Delegates (HOD) will meet January 8-9 to vote on proposed new policies regarding animal training and early exposure as well as camelid castration. The Veterinary Information Forum preceding the HOD’s annual session will feature discussions on HOD membership criteria and veterinar...

12/04/2025

Our top trending JAVMA article last month was "Secret shopper survey reveals generally reasonable access to preventive veterinary appointments for dogs, with notable gaps in rural areas and for other outliers": https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.25.05.0311

It is important that issues related to pet health access and their broader implications gain greater prominence and attract further research activity.

Open access article: jav.ma/secretshopper

12/04/2025

The AVMA announced today that Dr. Bailey Goff (Iowa State ’23) is the 2025-26 George W. Bishop AVMA congressional fellow. She will spend her fellowship as a science advisor in the office of U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the junior senator from Wisconsin since 2013.

“Dr. Goff’s opportunity as an AVMA congressional fellow represents something paramount to our profession—veterinarians being at the table when critical public policy decisions are being made,” said Dr. Michael Bailey, AVMA president, himself a former AVMA congressional fellow. “As a scientific advisor to Sen. Baldwin, her staff, and soon-to-be colleagues in Congress, Dr. Goff’s presence, perspective, and training will be invaluable and help amplify the voice of the veterinary community among lawmakers.”

Dr. Bailey Goff, the 2025-26 George W. Bishop AVMA congressional fellow, will spend her fellowship as a science advisor in the office of U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the junior senator from Wisconsin since 2013.