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AVMA PAC collects $400,000 for campaigns
October 1st 2004WASHINGTON-Roughly 4.5 percent of American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) members donated a total $400,000 to the group's Political Action Committee (PAC), which contributes to campaigns of federal congressional and senatorial candidates.
IDEXX's equine topical anti-inflammatory gains FDA approval
October 1st 2004IDEXX Laboratories Inc. received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market and sell Surpass? (1% diclofenac sodium) Topical Anti-Inflammatory Cream, a new treatment for horses with pain and lameness due to osteo-arthritis.
Purdue veterinary school performs groundbreaking kidney surgery
October 1st 2004WEST LAFAYETTE, IND.-Purdue University veterinarians set precedent for diagnosis and treatment of a kidney tumor in a 23-year-old horse. Jan Hawkins, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, associate professor of large animal surgery, Purdue University, removed the horse's kidney through its flank using no general anesthesia. The right kidney was removed using a hand-assisted laparoscopic technique.