News and issues for equine health professionals
The Morris Animal Foundation is now accepting proposals for pilot studies focused on equine behavior and relating to health and welfare. Grant applications are due by Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, 4:59 p.m. EST.
The numbers show the equine veterinary profession lacks diversity. Here, equine internal medicine specialist, University of Calgary veterinary school senior instructor of equine clinical medicine, and The Horse contributor Jean-Yin Tan, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, shares her experience as a minority in the industry.
A farrier is part of a team that also includes the horse, owner, trainer, grooms, and veterinarian. This team approach is never more necessary than when a horse has an injury or disease.
Associate Professor Dr. Jonathan Yardley won the contest, which celebrates the important relationship between veterinarian, owner, and horse.
While AHS doesn’t occur in horses in the United States, a current outbreak in Thailand, with a 94% mortality rate, illustrates the devastation possible when the disease affects a naive horse population.
Study: This corticosteroid was effective for treating horses with asthma and produced fewer side effects than current options.
Physiological stress can be an important equine welfare issue. Here’s what you should know.
Veterinarians need to assess horses, diagnose the cause of pain, and start medical management early for the best prognosis.
Though it can, rarely, resolve on its own, airway noise always merits investigation. Learn about the three most common noise-making pathologies and how they’re treated.
Researchers designed the smartphone technology to rapidly identify equine viral respiratory cases. Now, they believe the same technology could help identify COVID-19 in humans.
To help you better understand the ideal VCPR—a relationship that carries a lot of weight in our horsey lives—we’ve sought out the signs of a healthy one. How does yours line up?
Brown will lead the effort to develop, communicate, and enforce safety and integrity policies for both racing and sales operations.
The body delivers blood to help tendons heal. Power Doppler can identify when blood is present in horses’ injuries that veterinarians might otherwise believe to have recovered.
If ECoV tests are positive and a horse is showing classic clinical signs of the disease, including colitis, fever, and lethargy, vets can safely assume he has equine coronavirus disease without further testing.
Do you think horses are quick to get moving right after birth? Check out what they’re doing right after fertilization.
Learn why this fetlock injury occurs and how veterinarians diagnose it.
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