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Horse Health
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Insulin Resistance or Insulin Dysregulation?
If insulin levels were truly being abnormally regulated with no connection to blood sugar, it would show up in the blood glucose.
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Heat Stress and Your Horse
The clinical signs of heat stress are obvious with increased heart and respiratory rates, dilated superficial vessels and a loss of performance.
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Equine Vaccinations: Breaking Down the Basics
The need for a horse to be vaccinated every year should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and the answer depends on the risk that the horse will come in contact with that particular pathogen.
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Cornell's Large Animal Internal Medicine Service Gets Colicky Clydesdale Back in the Pasture
Perkins says that horse owners should keep a close eye on their animals if they start to see signs of colic, and make sure to call their veterinarian right away.
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New Survey Seeks to Better Understand Management of Equine Cushing's Disease in Horses
The online survey is designed for horse owners, to better understand how they manage horses or ponies with PPID, and what important factors are for them: ability to feed separately and cost of medications.
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New Cornell Study Reveals a Piece in Persistent Equine Allergies Puzzle
Our findings suggest that this specific type of white blood cell communicates to the rest of the immune system even when there are no allergy symptoms therefore helping initiate and maintain allergic responses.
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Tips for Reducing Flies on Your Horse
Besides being annoying, flies can carry diseases to horses and humans; therefore it is important to reduce the number of flies around your property.
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Dr. Slovis's Six Tips on How To Prevent & Treat EHV-1 In Horse
A horse's temperature will usually spike prior to shedding significant amounts of the EHV-1virus, and typically anything greater than 101.5 F should be considered a fever.
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Research to Improve Survival of Horses with Diarrhea and Critically Ill Foals Now Underway
According to an OVC resident study, 3/10 horses with acute diarrhea do not survive the illness so the goal of new research is to develop a rapid, cost effective treatment to reduce the mortality rate in horses
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Here to Stay: West Nile Virus
First diagnosed in a horse in California in 2003, the state became the WNV disease epicenter in 2004, with 540 confirmed equine clinical cases and virus is now endemic and here to stay.