AMP NEWS SERVICE DIGEST Wednesday, October 27, 2010 http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=bbcxmrdab&v=001Msfh5C4b-ac1rFWwt2f-b8kDq7r46d4ZUnMiIvk1TipP8a1QjTGz93CViXwq6Tbvo1EmS1ubmBFBz4QrmKfASMCJgbBuHCDeL-AMgjwa6amkzBNwaUzQehtUVgrwKXyo Medical Progress in the News Two great articles in major media outlets emphasize the ongoing importance of animal research to human and animal health: The New York Times reports that a Cedars-Sinai neuroscientist and veterinarians in Los Angeles have taken an operation commonly performed to remove brain tumors from the pituitary glands of humans and made it available to animals. Thus far nine dogs and one cat with Cushing's disease who otherwise would have died have been treated successfully - in the words of the Cedars-Sinai press release the dogs are 'living to bark about it' and the cat 'has been given a new lease on one of its nine lives.' But that's not all: tissue samples from the treated animals are returned to Cedars-Sinai's Adam Mamelak for research that enable him and his colleagues to develop drugs that might one day treat Cushing's disease in both people and animals. Read more on the Cedars-Sinai website. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2010. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================