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Zoetis OA treatment gets US approval The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new product from Zoetis Inc., Librela (bedinvetmab injection), as the first and only injectable MAc treatment to control pain associated with osteoarthritis in dogs. The US approval followed the launch of Librela in Europe in 2021. The therapy is also used in Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Librela, administered as a monthly injection, targets nerve growth factor, a key component of OA pain, according to Zoetis. NVA reorganizes with new presidents National Veterinary Associates named presidents for its two separately run businesses, a split…

If you’re going to enjoy a comfortable retirement, you need to know, among other things, how much money you’ll need. And you may have a much better chance of knowing if you get professional help. Consider these findings from a 2021 study by Dalbar, a financial services market research firm: Investors who worked with a financial advisor were three times more likely to estimate how much they would have saved for retirement than do-it-yourself investors. More than two-thirds of investors with a financial advisor were satisfied with how much they had saved for retirement, compared to about 27% of do-it-yourself…

(Graphic illustration/MetroCreative) HUNTINGTON – Excess tax revenue in West Virginia is likely to exceed the $1.7 billion revenue surplus estimate set for the end of the current fiscal year at the end of May, a month early. Members of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance received a briefing Monday morning from Dave Hardy, secretary of the West Virginia Department of Finance, during the May Day interim meetings at Marshall University in Huntington. According to Hardy, the tax revenue surplus for the 2023 fiscal year that ends June 30 is $1.617 billion as of Friday. West Virginia ended April with a…

A man is in custody after Claremore police say he stole someone’s truck at gunpoint, then led officers on a chase and hid in the woods. One officer was injured during the pursuit after crashing into another car, investigators said. The officer and the other people involved in the crash will be OK, police said. Investigators said the officer spotted the suspect, Colton Tyler West, in the truck that was reported stolen from Nowata County earlier Monday. After the chase, police said West abandoned the stolen truck and fled into the woods. Officers set up a perimeter west of Lynn…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, refugees from the threatened nation began showing up at Mexico’s border with the United States. About 1,000 Ukrainians a day flew into Tijuana on tourist visas, desperate to reach American soil. The volume overwhelmed the nation’s busiest border crossing in San Diego. In Tijuana, thousands of Ukrainians slept in a municipal gym waiting for a chance to cross into the US In response, the administration announced it would admit up to 100,000 Ukrainians over two years, if they applied online, had a financial sponsor and entered through an airport. At the same…

George Norcross III, the former Democratic kingpin of New Jersey, said Monday he would step away from politics, acknowledging what most people in state government had only dared to whisper: that his influence and reach they had faded significantly after a string of recent defeats. “It’s time for others to lead the party,” Norcross said New Jersey politician. For decades, Mr. Norcross, an insurance executive, was considered New Jersey’s most feared and powerful unelected politician. He wielded power from Camden, just outside of Philadelphia, with alliances that often blurred the lines between the Democratic and Republican parties. For years he…

A new effort to restrict access to abortion in the state was introduced Monday afternoon in the Nebraska Legislature, less than two weeks after a bill that would have banned abortions around six weeks of pregnancy fail to overcome an obstruction. The new plan to ban abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy drew fervent protests from opponents who had been assured by the Speaker of the Legislature, Sen. John Arch, that the abortion proposal was dead for the session. The way the measure was introduced drew even more outrage: as an amendment to a bill that would have banned gender-affirming…

A new effort to restrict access to abortion in the state was introduced Monday afternoon in the Nebraska Legislature, less than two weeks after a bill that would have banned abortions around six weeks of pregnancy fail to overcome an obstruction. The new plan to ban abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy drew fervent protests from opponents who had been assured by the Speaker of the Legislature, Sen. John Arch, that the abortion proposal was dead for the session. The way the measure was introduced drew even more outrage: as an amendment to a bill that would have banned gender-affirming…