
Breathing Easy Key to Equine Performance and Health
The respiratory system can be a major cause of poor performance or premature retirement from competition.

The respiratory system can be a major cause of poor performance or premature retirement from competition.
The University of Calgary assistant professor wrote two papers presented in the Kester News Hour.
Topics covered included pleuropneumonia, equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis, and lower airway inflammation
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Could your horse have a respiratory disease? Here’s how your vet will find out.
Topics include foaling emergencies, equine strangles, hind limb lameness, and diagnosing neurologic horses.
The presentation discussed evidence-based approaches to treating airway disease (such as heaves) in horses.

Evidence-based approaches to treatment of airway disease in horses such as heaves (recurrent airway obstruction or RAO) and inflammatory airway disease (IAD), with Dr. Laurent Couetil of Purdue University.

There is a decided split between trainers and breeders on the issue of race day furosemide in Thoroughbreds.
The meeting began with several presentations on furosemide and EIPH, the condition the medication treats.
The Race Day Medication Committee is debating whether therapeutic medications such as Salix should be banned.
The Rutgers ESC has added a virtual tour of their exercise physiology laboratory to their website.
The new regulations were prompted by increased use of the substance as a replacement for anabolic steroids.

Race day medications, drug testing initiatives, and research committees were discussed at an Oct. 6 meeting.

Antigenic drift necessitates periodic vaccine updates to effectively combat new virus strains.

A research team evaluates the effectiveness and safety of strangles vaccines on ponies of different ages.
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