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Researching Complementary Therapies

Complementary medicine is based primarily on preventing the disease, disorder, or other ailment before it happens, with less emphasis treating it after. This is a bit of a contrast to what Westerners think of as traditional medicine.

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Texas Ex-Racehorse Group Launches Founders’ Circle

Members of the racing industry in Texas are showing strong support for LOPE Texas, a non-profit racehorse-placement program, the organization reported in a Nov. 15 press release.

Although LOPE has just launched its newest initiative–the

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Proximal Suspensory Ligament Disease of the Forelimb

At the AAEP Focus meeting in Ft. Collins, Colo., Sue Dyson, VetMB, PhD, FRCVS, head of Clinical Orthopaedics at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, England, spoke on proximal suspensory ligament disease (PSD).

She said PSD is common in

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South Dakota Teen Wins USEF Youth Sportsman’s Award

Kirsten Kimbler is the winner of the United State Equestrian Federation’s (USEF) 2007 Youth Sportsman’s Award. According to the Federation, Kimbler has demonstrated an ongoing commitment and dedication to the USEF and her affiliate organizations

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Cowboy Crosses Country Aboard Horse

When rancher Bill Inman decided to show there’s more to America than the gloom-and-doom on the nightly news, he hopped on his horse and started riding.

And riding, and riding.

Some 1,700 miles later, he’s burning through his family’s life

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Michigan OKs Composting Horse Carcasses

Dairy farmer Ken Nobis reaches into a tall mound of what looks like topsoil and grabs a clump, which he looks over and quickly sniffs before crumbling it.

The 10-foot-high, 50-foot-long heap that he’s examining is a compost pile. Its humus is

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Simple Steps to Keeping Your Horse’s Hooves Healthy

Rather than waiting until there’s a problem with your horse’s feet, take time now to protect and maintain these valuable structures inside and out.

Step one is understanding the subject so you can communicate knowledgeably with your

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Surgical Treatments of Carpus Problems

At the AAEP Focus meeting in Ft. Collins, Colo., Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD, FRCVS, DSc, DrMedVet (hc), Dipl. ACVS, Barbara Cox Anthony Chair and Director of Orthopaedic Research at Colorado State University, presented surgical options to manag

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