Wrap up: Veterinary Heroes Awards now accepting nominations, and other veterinary news

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Happy Friday dvm360 readers! For those of you getting the winter weather and snowfall this weekend, we hope you and your families remain safe and warm inside. The dvm360 team has recently returned from the Veterinary Meeting & Expo and we have plenty of coverage already up and coming your way! Be sure to continue checking in on dvm360.com for our latest conference coverage and news within the veterinary industry.

Here is what was popular this week on dvm360.com:

• We are thrilled to announce that the nominations for our fourth annual dvm360 Veterinary Heroes Awards are now being accepted. The program celebrates individuals within veterinary medicine who have achieved success in their careers and will be judged by a panel of judges.
• During her lecture, "Four toxicities of a team" at VMX, Carrie Jurney, DVM, DACVM (Neurology), president of Not One More Vet, shared some of the common traps managers fall into within the veterinary culture, even if the managers have the best intentions.
• On this week’s episode of The Vet Blast Podcast, Jessie Brown, LVT, blood bank director at Veterinary Emergency Group, and Ken Yagi, MS, RVT, VTS (ECC), (SAIM), chief veterinary nursing officer at Veterinary Emergency Group, discuss more on blood banks in recognition of National Blood Donor Month with host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA.
• ELIAS Animal Health disclosed this week that the USDA for Veterinary Biologics determined that data from the company’s ECI0OSA-04 pivotal combined safety and efficacy study showed a reasonable expectation of efficiency, a critical step on the licensure pathway.
• Jörg M. Steiner, Med Vet, Dr Med Vet, PhD, DACVIM-SAIM, DECVIM-CA, AGAF, sat down for an interview with dvm360 to explain how most cases of pancreatitis are idiopathic, but some things could be attributed to the development of the disease, plus how it's important to speak to owners about certain feeding habits that can negatively affect the pet's health.
• Elanco launched its Defend Puppies. Defeat Parvo. The campaign this week hopes to increase education and awareness of the disease, plus how veterinary teams can have easier to its USDA conditionally approved Canine Parvovirus Monoclonal Antibody.
• And more!