The American Association of Equine Practitioners will honor a council of family ranchers with the 2009 Lavin Cup, its award for outstanding equine welfare initiatives.

Established in 1995, NAERIC member ranchers manage broodmares that produce quality horses as well as provide pregnant mares’ urine (PMU). Estrogens extracted from PMU are used to produce hormone therapies.

The American Association of Equine Practitioners’ 55th Annual Convention is on stage in Las Vegas, Nev., Dec. 5 – 9, as the world’s largest continuing education meeting for equine veterinarians.

The convention was expected to lure more than 3,500 veterinarians, veterinary students, and technicians for scientific lectures, industry forums, networking events and other op

The American Association of Equine Practitioners will induct Colorado State University professor Josie Traub-Dargatz, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVIM, to the AAEP board of directors at the 55th Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nev.

Traub-Dargatz will serve a three-year term representing the Central District, which includes Colorado, North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, and K

Utah practitioner Roger Rees, DVM, will join the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ board of directors as a director at large during the 55th Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nev. He will be sworn in with other new members of the board at the President’s Luncheon Dec. 8.

Rees is the founding partner of South Valley Animal Clinic, a referral and primary care clini

When a horse is infected with rabies, the outcome is invariably fatal. But taking the simple step of ensuring an annual vaccination for your horse will nearly eliminate your horse’s risk of contracting this deadly disease.

In observation of World Rabies Day, Sept. 28, 2009, the American Association of Equine Practitioner

The treatment and diagnosis of conditions affecting the equine eye will be the topic of the AAEP’s debut fall meeting, Focus on Ophthalmology, Oct. 1-3 in Raleigh, N.C.

Ocular trauma, infection, and disease can lead to some of the most expensive and devastating conditions in horses. Equine veterinarians treating sport, work or show horses must be well-versed in the diagnosis and field

The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) has released West Nile Virus (WNV) vaccination guidelines. This information is intended as a supplement to the AAEP’s Guidelines for Vaccination of Horses (January 2001). Practitioners are directed to consult this publication as the following discussion is to be read in conjunction with those general guidelines for