15 is the New 10: Keeping the Middle-Aged Horse Healthy
Nancy S. Loving, DVM
September 15, 2019
Find out how to keep your middle-aged horse’s teeth, feet, joints, and more healthy.
News and issues for equine health professionals
Find out how to keep your middle-aged horse’s teeth, feet, joints, and more healthy.
An equine nutrition expert shares tips for feeding horses during natural disasters.
Should you let an abscess come out naturally or drain it? Dr. Scott Fleming offers his insight into handing this painful hoof problem.
Tips include ensuring constant forage access, providing pasture turnout, and limiting concentrate intake, among others.
Here are some biosecurity practices you can put into place at the clinic and on the farm to prevent salmonellosis.
We take a look back at seven eye-opening equine disease outbreaks in the past 100 years, including influenza in Australia, equine viral arteritis in North America, and African horse sickness in Spain.
While many veterinarians use a clamp to accomplish hemostasis, a Swiss research team has uncovered significant benefits offered by a different castration and clamping method.
We asked Prof. Tim Parkin about the data the Equine Injury Database collects on catastrophic racing injuries and how the industry could make it even stronger and more useful.
The American Association of Equine Practitioners invites equine veterinarians and veterinary students to its 65th Annual Convention, to be held Dec. 7-11, 2019, at the Colorado Convention Center.
Current horse breeding trends are characterized by a decline in mares bred and a new focus on well-being of established pregnancies, as well as enhanced genetic selection related to the health and future performance of foals.
Equine veterinarians face a slew of stresses, ranging from work-life balance struggles and concerns about getting injured to compassion fatigue and moral stress. Six professionals weigh in on these pressures, their causes, and how they and the industry are managing them.
An SAA test can identify illness in horses, and it can also ensure they’re healthy enough for other procedures, such as surgery. Here’s a look into how some vets use SAA in their practices.
Veterinarians are using chiropractic techniques more frequently to evaluate and treat back disorders in horses. Here, a CSU professor and researcher outlines basic principles.
Veterinarians might soon be able to diagnose sarcoids in horses using a simple blood test rather than an invasive biopsy. Here’s what researchers are studying.
Consider the big picture—from farrier care and diet to environment and genetics—when working to keep horse hooves healthy.
Researchers and veterinarians around the world strive to learn more about the lamellae and have made scientific advances in laminitis diagnosis, treatment, and prevention over the past several years. Here’s what we know.
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