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		<title>Going Beyond The Usual Rx For Rover</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jordan Kocen gives Nelson one of his regular acupuncture treatments for back-end weakness and skin allergies. Photos By Carol Guzy - The Washington Post
By Lori Aratani
The prognosis wasn&#8217;t good for Bilbo. The middle-age pug suffered from a whole host of ailments: itchy skin, weakness in his back legs and a loss of appetite. Bilbo&#8217;s regular ...]]></description>
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		<title>BrightHeart Veterinary Centers Give Back to Dogs that Selflessly Serve Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 19:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Armonk, NY &#8211; Katonah Bedford Veterinary Center and SouthPaws Veterinary Specialists &#38; Emergency Center teamed up with The American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists® taking part in the ACVO/Merial National Service Dog Eye Exam event, May 4 &#8211; 8, 2009. Ophthalmologists at both BrightHeart hospitals provided free sight-saving eye exams to service dogs throughout Virginia, Washington ...]]></description>
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		<title>Linear Accelerator With IMRT Capability To Become Operational</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WVSEC is installing a new linear accelerator that will have IMRT capabilities. It is the only unit with this capability in Canada, and one of only a few veterinary units with this ability in all of North America. IMRT works by linking a 3 dimensional radiation planning workstation to a collimator that is computer controlled. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Eye Surgery for National Zoo&#8217;s Giant Panda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the animal care staff at the Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s National Zoo first noticed that Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN), the 10 year-old male giant panda, was suffering from an inflamed third eyelid in his right eye, the initial treatment was with a topical medication. When they realized that this did not resolve the inflammation, doctors performed ...]]></description>
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		<title>BrightHeart Veterinary Centers Announces Acquisition of Great Lakes Veterinary Specialists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BrightHeart Veterinary Centers announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Great Lakes Veterinary Specialists (formerly, the Veterinary Referral Clinic.) the only full-scale specialty referral hospital in the immediate vicinity of Cleveland, located in Bedford Heights, OH. The practice offers internal medicine, oncology and radiation oncology, radioactive iodine treatment for feline hyperthyroidism (I-131), surgery, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Oral Canine Melanoma Vaccine At Work: One Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Adapted from Betty Liddick in the AKC Gazette, April 2008)
Vicky Pollien saw a change in her Deutsch Drahthaar, a breed native to Germany and a precursor to the German Wirehaired Pointer. Bodo vom Riesenhof had come to Pollien’s Poughkeepsie, New York, home at the age of 10 after a career as a certified hunting dog. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Brightheart Veterinary Centers Announces Acquisition of Southpaws Veterinary Specialists and Emergency Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BrightHeart Veterinary Centers announced today that it has completed the acquisition of SouthPaws Veterinary Specialists and Emergency Center (SPVS), a multi-disciplinary, advanced-care veterinary hospital located in Fairfax, VA. SPVS serves Northern Virginia and the Washington, DC metro area, with a total staff of 103, including board-certified specialists providing advanced care in oncologic, orthopedic and softtissue ...]]></description>
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		<title>Brightheart Veterinary Centers Receives Additional $28.5 Million Equity Investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BrightHeart Veterinary Centers today announced that it has received an equity investment of $25 million from LLR Partners, Inc., a leading private equity firm, and $3.5 million from Caltius Mezzanine, BrightHeart’s existing lender, to be used primarily to fund ongoing acquisitions of specialty/emergency veterinary hospitals. BrightHeart is creating a network of advanced-care veterinary hospitals across ...]]></description>
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		<title>BrightHeart Veterinary Centers Expands Network of Advanced Care Facilities in the United States and Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Arboretum View Animal Hospital]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BrightHeart Veterinary Centers today announced the completion of two acquisitions that extend its footprint into Illinois and Western Canada. BrightHeart has acquired Arboretum View Animal Hospital (AVAH), located in Downers Grove, Ill., and Western Veterinary Specialist Centre (WVSC) and its affiliate, Animal Care Emergency (ACE) of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
AVAH, under the directorship of Dr. Tom ...]]></description>
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		<title>BrightHeart Becomes Corporate Charter Partner of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BrightHeart Veterinary Centers announced today that it has become a Corporate Charter Partner of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) Foundation. Since 2000, the ACVIM Foundation has supported the work of ACVIM specialists in advancing veterinary medicine. ACVIM is also the national certifying organization for veterinary specialists in large and small animal internal ...]]></description>
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