News and issues for equine health professionals
You stare blankly at a nearly indiscernible abnormality in your horse’s fetlock X ray as your veterinarian puts the film on a light box. He points at a bone chip, but all you see is the glaring white form of your horse’s bone. All too often this
Veterinarians were offered a unique experience at the Bluegrass Equine Reproduction Symposium. This meeting was for practitioners who wanted to learn more about state-of-the-art technology and practices in equine reproduction, and offered not
Two equine researchers at the Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Veterinary Medicine recently received a USDA National Research Initiative Mech-anisms of Disease Grant to study the cause of laminitis. This disease causes chronic lameness
Ultrasound isn’t just for prenatal examinations anymore. In the veterinary community in the past year, emphasis has been placed on ultrasound diagnosis of injuries, and this has been reflected in seminars all over the world. More than 20
Byars and Collatos covered diagnostic techniques and treatments for enteritis. Byars discussed causes and symptoms, and touched on promising ways to diagnose and determine whether the treatment should include surgery.
A special task force formed by the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) will evaluate and recommend changes to the group’s Guidelines for Vaccinating Horses. One of the Task Force’s chief assignments is developing broad guidelines
Television viewers were able to get behind-the-scenes exposure to veterinary school this fall with Vet School Confidential, a television program filmed at Michigan State University. The 13-part series”P>
Television viewers were able to get behind-the-scenes exposu
C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD, FRCVS, Dipl. ACVS, Dipl. ECVS, recently was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. McIlwraith is a professor of
Larry Bramlage, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS, has been named the 2002 vice president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP). He will be inducted into office at the AAEP’s 47th Annual
Elizabeth M. Santschi, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, has been appointed to the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ (AAEP) board of directors as a Director at Large. Her three-year term will begin at this year’s Annual Convention.
Santschi’s
“We are pleased to notify you that you have been accepted by the College of Veterinary Medicine as a first-year student in the professional curriculum beginning August 22, 2002.” These few words are the light at the end of a long tunnel, and the beginning of a new pathway for people wanting to become veterinarians.
Aging horses by their incisor teeth is as much an art as a science.
High Medical Technologies (HMT) was inadvertently omitted from the list of extracorporeal shock wave therapy manufacturers in the May issue of The Horse. The company is based in Switzerland.
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The benefits of digital or computerized radiography (CR) have advanced one step further. Not only can veterinarians adjust the sharpness, contrast, and brightness of their X rays on-screen for closer scrutiny, they can also do this quickly and
Europe’s first successful intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) foals were recently born in Newmarket, England, as a part of a research program designed to create better sport horses. The foals were born March 21 and 28.
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A Thoroughbred/Irish Draught mare received a pacemaker in groundbreaking surgery at Great Britain’s Royal Veterinary (UK) College’s Sefton Equine Hospital in February. Seven-year-old Xena was weak
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