News and issues for equine health professionals
Researchers found that their technique for removing ostoechondral fragments from the hock was efficient and had few postoperative complications.
Read some of the top tweets and take-homes on topics such as lameness, equine obesity, laminitis, and more from the 2018 British Equine Veterinary Association Congress.
A fast-growing equestrian epicenter in a North Carolina hamlet prepares to host the 2018 World Equestrian Games.
Belgian veterinarians have successfully completed the first cardiac ablation—a procedure used to correct irregular heartbeats—performed in a horse. Diamant, a 5-year-old Norwegian show jumper, came through the four-hour operation with no difficulties.
Taylor Equine Hospital assistant Ali Harman’s dream job involves clinic cases, farm calls, and foal watch.
Go step-by-step through the experience of botulism diagnosis and treatment with Dr. Daniela Luethy.
The UF Equine Acupuncture Center will function as a clinic through which Huisheng Xie, B.Sc.V.M., Ph.D. will provide acupuncture therapy to aid in treatment of a variety of conditions affecting horses.
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.
Recent research suggests that bone scans in horses aren’t always accurate in diagnosing causes of lameness and poor performance in sport horses when used alone.
Results from a study on a small population of horses suggest that freezing samples for short periods before testing won’t impact the results.
Scintigraphy gives provides the practitioner with information about some injuries related to bone or soft-tissue connections to bone, but it might not reveal many other sources of foot pain, researchers found.
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.
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