Cutting-edge research conducted on microscopic tunnels in horses’ intestinal walls has revealed that these channels play a key role in helping intestines heal after life-threatening colic episodes.
Three weeks after launching its iPhone application for the Equine Prohibited Substances list, the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) has announced that the app is now available on Android smartphones.
Virginia Tech’s Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center has announced its 2010-11 Tuesday Talks schedule. This series of free lectures is designed to provide veterinarians, horse owners, and industry professionals with valuable insight and practical advice related to a wide array of equine health care topics.
Law enforcement authorities in Oregon are seeking the owner of two apparently abandoned horses. Clackamas County Sheriff’s Deputy Clint Pierce said Portland General Electric utility company personnel discovered the chestnut mare and red chestnut gelding wandering utility company property near the Mount Hood National Forest on Nov. 24. Both are currently under rehabilitative care …
The operators of a Wisconsin horse rescue are seeking a new location after fire swept through their leased barn last week, killing 24 animals.
Lane’s End Farm announced Nov. 29 that Jerry and Ann Moss’ now-retired champion Zenyatta will make an appearance at Keeneland upon her arrival in Kentucky.
An associate professor of medicine at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has received the National Insitute of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. The $1.5 million grant was awarded to Maria Julia Bevilaqua Felippe, DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, and is presented over five years to stimulate highly innovative research and support promising new investigators who are studying
Because laminitis compromises the equine foot so drastically, horses with the disease are more prone to foot infections and abscesses. During the Sept. 17-18 Laminitis West Conference in Monterey, Calif., Bob Agne, DVM, an equine podiatrist at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., discussed how to diagnose and treat such infections.
After unearthing and examining several equine skeletons in the late 1980s from a stable in the buried village of Pompeii, Italy, researchers believed that they had discovered a new, albeit now extinct, breed of horse. Testing performed roughly 10 years later revealed genetic material for what they thought was an exotic hybrid animal that contained two types of DNA: that of a horse and a …
Two separate research teams have identified the myostatin gene as a crucial indicator of athletic ability in a Thoroughbred’s genetic makeup and are continuing to study the potential of this marker for race distance selection.
Everyone has a different mental picture of how a skinny horse looks, acts, and appears. Often the easiest way to determine if a horse needs to be investigated by authorities is to determine his or her body condition score using the Henneke Scale.
In the not-so-distant future, researchers believe they will be able to genetically modify stem cells to create a “vaccine,” so to speak, to treat a large number of musculoskeletal and other disorders in both humans and horses. An Italian research group has made recent strides in further understanding the potential of using stem cells derived from fat (adipose) tissue in this capacity.
The level of nursing care needed by ill or post-surgical horses who have returned home often falls somewhere between the capabilities of the horse owner and what is provided by a veterinarian. To fill that gap, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s New Bolton Center, in Kennett Square, Pa., is launching an Equine Home Nursing Care Program called Equi-Assist. The program …
The newly-renamed UK Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory recently welcomed scientist Erdal Erol, DVM, MSc, PhD, as the laboratory’s new head of diagnostic microbiology.
A mare should be brought inside at night beginning 30 to 45 days before her due date. This is done for two reasons. The first is so she can become comfortable with the surroundings and feel that the foaling stall is a safe, private place. Mares that are not at ease might delay foaling and prolong their labor until they feel more secure. Such a delay can lead to complications.
Kentucky Equine Research (KER) will be featured on the Discovery Channel’s hit series “Dirty Jobs,” airing on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010, at 9 p.m. EST.
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