Funding for the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension, including 4-H, was suspended by the office of Gov. Bruce Rauner. The suspension came under a round of budget cuts intended to save the state – which currently holds a $4 billion budget deficit – more than $400 million this fiscal year.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is making changes to ensure medically important drugs in human medicine are only being used to treat animal health when necessary. And veterinarians need to be involved in the decision-making, said Dr. Craig Lewis, Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine, FDA.