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Is There Long-Term Brain Damage After Bypass Surgery? More Evidence Puts The Blame On Heart Disease
Brain scientists and cardiac surgeons at Johns Hopkins have evidence from 227 heart bypass surgery patients that long-term memory losses and cognitive problems they experience are due to the underlying coronary artery disease itself and not ill after-effects from having used a heart-lung machine.

Indian Government Asks UNICEF To Stop Distribution Of Nutrition Aid
"India has asked UNICEF to stop distributing millions of dollars worth of nutrition aid to children, saying it had been done without permission and at the expense of local food to fight hunger," Reuters reports. Since August 2008, UNICEF has invested about $2.4 million importing "a high energy relief treatment known as "Ready to Use Therapeutic Food" (RUTF)" for children with severe acute malnutrition in the states of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, according to the news service (Williams, 8/4).
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Dr. Corry Installed As President Of American Veterinary Medical Association

Dr. James Cook officially handed over the title of American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) president to Dr. Larry Corry today at the 2009 AVMA Convention President"s Installation Luncheon in Seattle. Dr. Corry, a small-animal practitioner from Buford, Ga., becomes the 129th president of the AVMA. Dr. Corry served 15 years in the AVMA House of Delegates, six years on the House Advisory Committee and two years on the Political Action Committee. He received his veterinary medical degree from the University of Georgia in 1966, then spent two years in the U.S. Air Force Veterinary Corps. Dr. Corry currently owns two animal hospitals and is a stockholder and on the board of directors of three emergency clinics. American Veterinary Medical Association


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