My Horse Has a Fever: Now What?
Joan Norton, VMD, Dipl. ACVIM
July 15, 2016
Learn to recognize the signs of various temperature-raising conditions in horses.
News and issues for equine health professionals
Learn to recognize the signs of various temperature-raising conditions in horses.
Reducing particulates in a horse’s environment can go a long way toward ensuring his airway is as healthy as possible.
Welfare issues include stress/pain behavior; inappropriate nutrition, stabling, and turnout; and delayed death.
A pathologist shares his thoughts on evolving microbes and how researchers are working to control associated disease.
Congenital cardiovascular malformations are rare in horses but can have serious implications.
Certain bisphosphonates are approved for treating navicular syndrome in horses. Learn about these drugs originally used to treat osteoporosis in humans.
Veterinarians can use progesterone diagnostically to evaluate luteal function during early pregnancy.
A recently discovered resistance gene in bacteria has focused attention on emerging multidrug resistance.
Understand the costs of veterinary care before you’re faced with a sick or injured horse.
Many diseases were once considered geographically restricted. But disease migration has eliminated that complacency.
Study foals and yearlings had good body condition scores and growth rates even when their fecal egg counts weren’t zero.
Diseases and abnormalities of the upper airway are some of the main reasons for poor performance in sport horses.
Researchers found that applying 5% imiquimod cream resulted in clinical resolution in 93% of the treated ears.
Learn about the research behind bisphosphonates and how they might help horses with navicular syndrome. Presented by Laura Kennedy, DVM, Dipl. ACVP, of the University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Center, in Lexington.
While acupuncture seemed to help some horses, there was no strong evidence that it relieves pain in all affected horses.
Few study horses with strangles showed the “classic” signs of disease, researchers determined.
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