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Core-Aid Offers Unique Wound-Dressing Alternative

VET-TEC introduces Core-Aid wound dressing to manage moisture at the wound bed, remove debris and fluids containing bacteria, and reduce expense and time required to care for wounds.
 
Core-Aid’s three-layer design draws fluid and

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Sfax Adds Faxing Solution for WritePad EMR System

SecureCare Technologies, a health care information technology company, has launched Sfax as part of an integrated and automated faxing solution within Addison Health Systems’ WritePad electronic medical record system.


Sfax presents

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Temporary Tack Emergency Halter Repair Kit

Four Footed Essentials of Midway, Ky. has developed Temporary Tack, a kit that includes sized, color-coded sections that can be used to repair broken halters in emergency situations.


Designed for use on all types of livestock, Temporary

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Washington Horse Owners Seek High Ground

More than 30,000 Washington residents have fled their homes due to flooding caused by deep snow melting in warm, rainy conditions. Many horse owners are evacuating their horses or moving them to high ground.

Josie Owens of Carnation had to

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Clean Water for Horses: Poll Results

More than 1,550 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “How often do you clean automatic waterers or water troughs?”


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Trainers Voice Santa Anita Surface Concerns

About 40 Southern California-based trainers met with Pro-Ride head Ian Pearse Jan. 7 at Santa Anita Park to voice their concerns over the condition of Santa Anita’s synthetic racing surface, which Pearse installed a year ago.

Unlike meeting

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CEM Exposure: 17 Wisconsin Horses Quarantined

Seventeen horses on 11 different farms in Wisconsin have been quarantined and will be tested because they have been exposed to a highly contagious disease that can cause reproductive problems in mares.

However, Wisconsin State Veterinarian

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Commentary: Equine Medicine Has Come a Long Way

While I was in veterinary school 20-some years ago, the first ultrasound machine was being “explored” by board-certified veterinary radiologists at university veterinary schools. Pain medication for horses was mostly limited to the non-steroidal

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Prevent CEM, Other Infectious Diseases Through Strict Hygiene

Strict hygiene guidelines should be followed whenever handling breeding mares or stallions to prevent reproductive infectious diseases, including contagious equine metritis (CEM).

CEM is spread between horses primarily by breeding, either b

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