And Goldstein is beginning to get referrals from conventional vets--including the Animal Medical Center, New York City's well-known--and conventional--animal hospital.

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After months of negotiations with the Council of Minister, MEPs debated a second reading deal aiming to balance animal welfare with medical and scientific research.

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The France-based IFHA's international agreement on prohibited substances, of which the Emirates Racing Authority is a signatory, states that horses can be given medication such as steroids during training only if the animal has a "justifiable" medical condition.

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Within the four cause areas that Warner Bros. targets, Warner Bros. employees work with local nonprofit organizations such as A Place Called Home, a youth center in South Los Angeles and Volunteers of the Burbank Animal Shelter, an animal service agency devoted to providing medical, social, behavioral and financial care for animals at risk.

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"After about 10 passages, we found the virus had acquired the ability to transmit" from animal to animal, said Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and study co-author.

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He picked up things there that he could have learnt nowhere else, such as hypnotising a chicken, an animal that has, if involuntarily, contributed much to medical research.

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One IGCP project in 2000 was even at the origin of a new field: medical geology, the science dealing with the impact of our natural environment on human and animal health.

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For the Greeks, the medical term for rabies (lyssa) also described an extreme sort of murderous hate, an insensate, animal rage that seizes Hector in "The Iliad" and, in Euripides' tragedy of Heracles, goads the hero to slay his own family.

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