WHAT’S  NEW The ON-LINE edition of our monthly newsletter The 2003 Dental Special is Here * Now extended through March 15 * New Services and Products * Animal Ambulance * Pet Taxi * Dog-appeasing Pheromone Defuser Who Wants To Be a Veterinar(ian)? Thank-You for Our New Referrals What’s New on Our Web Site (since last month) (Go to Hospital Home Page) (Check out the Pet Web Library, Pharmacy Center, Surgery Suite & Vaccine Mezzanine) The “What’s New” Archives   Would you like an eMail each month when this page is updated? Click here and ask to be notified whenever a new “What’s New” page is added. POPULAR TOPICS FROM PAST NEWSLETTERS

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WHAT’S NEW ON OUR WEB SITE (since last month) IMMUNE MEDIATED HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA or “IMHA” We depend on red blood cells to bring oxygen to our tissues (and carry waste gases away). Without enough red blood cells we die. We can lose blood cells from bleeding, but sometimes our immune system gets confused and destroys them by mistake. What can we do when this happens? Read more to find out on the newest page in The Pet Web Library. LACTULOSE This common laxative has some very special properties when it comes to assisting patients in advanced liver failure. How so? Find out on the newest page in The Pharmacy Center. SPLEENIC MASSES The spleen is an organ that helps store red blood cells and helps with immune function by acting like a lymph node, but when it grows even a benign growth a life-threatening spleen rupture can occur. Fortunately, we can live quite happily without a spleen. Sometimes, though, removing the spleen is only the beginning. Read the rest of the story in our newest page in The Surgery Suite. WHO WANTS TO BE A VETERINAR(IAN)? We get eMail at least weekly from young people interested in what it takes to become a vet. It turns out there are lots of resources to tap. We have tried to put together a collection to help out the next generation in their journey.