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February 14, 2024 Surgery

What AMC’s New Surgical Institute Means for Your Pet

With great fanfare, the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center held a “leash cutting” ceremony to mark the grand opening of the Denise and Michael Kellen Institute for Surgical Care. The press release describes...

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  • Blog Misc Pet Safety
    A dog plays with a pumpkin
    October 31, 2018

    Paw-o-ween: Halloween Animal Myths

    Halloween is a mystical holiday, full of supernatural creatures with magical powers. The spirits inhabiting All Hallows Eve and the Day of the Dead, have given us some animal myths. ...

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  • Blog Misc
    Going Viral: One Health Day
    October 24, 2018

    Going Viral: AMC’s One Health Day Event

    November 3, 2018, marks the third annual One Health Day, a global campaign celebrating the need for a One Health approach to address shared health threats at the human-animal-environment interface. ...

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  • Everyday Medicine
    A veterinary professional removes a cat from an enclosure
    October 17, 2018

    Everyday Medicine: Hospital Wards

    “Everyday Medicine” is an intermittent series of blog posts highlighting tests, treatments, and procedures common in daily Animal Medical Center practice. Some past examples of this type of blog post ...

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  • Blog Misc
    Zyna
    October 10, 2018

    Veterinary Technicians in Action

    October 14-20 is the annual celebration of National Veterinary Technician Week. In New York State, we call these animal healthcare professionals licensed veterinary technicians (LVT), but in other municipalities they ...

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  • Blog Misc Responsible Pet Ownership
    A happy family with a dog
    October 03, 2018

    Should I Adopt an Older Dog?

    October is Adopt a Dog Month or Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. Either way, I hope your family is thinking about whether or not adopting a dog is the right ...

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  • Internal Medicine
    A Schnauzer
    September 26, 2018

    Immune Mediated Neutropenia: What You Need to Know

    I recently wrote about the concept of immune disease; those disorders where the immune system goes haywire and attacks normal cells in the body. In more recent blog posts, I wrote ...

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About the author

Dr. Ann Hohenhaus is a third-generation veterinarian, double board-certified in Oncology and Small Animal Internal Medicine. As AMC’s Director of Pet Health Information, she writes AMC’s weekly blog, hosts a monthly “Ask the Vet” podcast, and regularly speaks to national news media about animal health. In addition, she has contributed widely to research articles and textbooks, lectures internationally, and has won prestigious awards for her work in both veterinary medicine and journalism. In 2021, she joined the influential World Small Animal Veterinary Association’s Oncology Working Group, which she currently chairs.

Dr. Ann Hohenhaus of the Animal Medical Center in New York City