News and issues for equine health professionals
The funding will help veterinary scientists improve these large animals’ well-being by preventing and treating health challenges such as equine herpesvirus, strangles, and fungal infection.
A listener asks about her horse’s anemia, and Dr. Bryan Waldridge explains the causes and what it means.
The University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has a new system that allows lab personnel to reliably identify bacteria within a day.
Dr. Craig Carter received the inaugural Allen W. Hahn Lifetime Achievement Award in Veterinary Informatics, which honors those who’ve dedicated their careers to being leaders, educators, and innovators in veterinary informatics.
The annual conference will cover topics ranging from barefoot trimming and laminitis treatment to eye and respiratory disease.
What is a venogram, and how is it used to help diagnose laminitis?
Use these disease prevention strategies to protect your horse on the farm, at the horse show, and in the breeding shed.
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.
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