This past summer the AVMA held its 107th Annual meeting in Las Vegas, nevada. It has been heralded as the biggest and best AVMA Convention ever, boasting the largest attendance and most presentations ever at an annual meeting of the organizations.

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Diabetes insipidus may be idiopathic or symptomatic. In the idiopathic type, no gross lesions can be demonstrated and the cause is unknown. The symptomatic group can be caused by any number of pathologic conditions among which are the following: fracture at the base of the skull, encephalitis, cerebral hemorrhage, brain tumors, pituitary tumors, abscesses, or granulomatous diseases. The most common cause of the symptomatic type in the dog is a pituitary tumor.

Omega Tau Sigma, Iowa State University's professional veterinary fraternity started in the 1970 academic year by pledging 15 new members from the freshman class.

The control of bovine mastitis is the biggest challenge the large animal practitioner is faced with today. When combined with reproductive disease control, it is a valuable service to the dairyman and a good source of income for the veterinarian. In most areas of the country, there is a real demand for preventive veterinary medicine. Probably, a group or partnership practice with specialists programmed for periodic visits to the dairy farm is the best approach to mastitis and reproductive disease control.