Work-life balance for the equine veterinarian who’s also a parent requires planning, patience, good boundaries, and in many cases, a flexible employer. To help, four U.K. vets launched an initiative called MumsVet in 2016.
A brief period of fasting prior to omeprazole administration could help maximize drug absorption and, thus, efficacy.
Find out how equine researchers are using the latest gadgets and gizmos to diagnose lameness, collect data, and more.
An automated feeder that provides grain in multiple small meals throughout the day might help reduce the prevalence of gastric ulcers in horses in training.
Horse are especially sensitive to endotoxemia. To address the issue, Dr. Stacy Anderson of Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee, presents her research on neutrophil apoptosis (the death of cells that occurs as a normal and controlled part of an organism’s growth or development) in horses.
Practitioners must use clinical signs and laboratory testing to distinguish between these sometimes similar ailments.
Researchers confirmed some suspected patterns in PPID clinical signs and identified others they considered surprising.
Consider these dietary changes to help reduce the laminitis risk and discuss with your veterinarian whether certain medications could help your horse.
Where do we go from here? Find out from Charlie Scoggins, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACT, who’s a fertility clinician at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
Horses consuming crude protein at 12% of total dry matter intake excreted more nitrogen, which led to greater ammonia emissions.
Drs. Peter Morresey and James McLeod share regenerative medicine insights from clinical and research perspectives.
Learn how these “heroes” of the equine veterinary industry step up to save other horses’ lives.
Presenters will speak on pre-race examinations, on-track protocols, test barn best practices, technology resources, biosecurity, and more.
Topics will include equine back pain and pelvic dysfunction, integrative imaging, clinical techniques for veterinary students, the problem mare, and more.
Disease life cycle can be replicated for research in ways scientists didn’t believe was possible.
Two research teams investigated whether APPs could serve as EPM markers and came to similar conclusions.
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