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RMTC Adopts Therapeutic Medication Guidelines for Race Horses
The RMTC board of directors has adopted recommendations for thresholds and withdrawal times for four therapeutic medications identified by the RCI for use in race horses, including procaine penicillin, lidocaine, detomidine and xylazine.
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Spring May Bring Increase in Horse Lyme Disease Cases
Although Lyme disease is quite common for horses in high-risk areas, Lyme disease is not easy to identify, since fewer than 10 percent of horses show any symptoms.
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Spring Pasture Access and Your Horse
The switch from hay to pasture can represent a dramatic change in the horse's overall diet, with the potential to cause digestive upset that may lead to colic or laminitis.
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STDs in Horses - What Every Horse Owner Should Know
A potential downside to the ever-improving ease of global breeding is the increased risk of spreading sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) across international borders.
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Study Focuses on Lyme Disease in Horses and Humans
Newsdate: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 - 12:16 pm Location: LEXINGTON, Kentucky A study underway at the University of Kentucky has the potential to improve prevention and treatment not only of Lyme disease in horses and humans, but of other significant diseases
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Surprising Female to Male Ratio in Early Horse Pregnancies
The higher insulin-like growth factor-1 concentrations in female embryos in pregnant horses might represent a mechanism to ensure the survival of the embryos under conditions that would otherwise strongly favor males.
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TAHC Orders Testing of Equines for Piroplasmosis
 Equine Piroplasmosis is a contagious blood-borne protozoal disease that affects all equines, including horses, ponies, donkeys, mules and zebras and is transferred by dirty instruments or insect carriers, such as ticks. >
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Texans Warned about Illegal Entry of Horses with Piroplasmosis
 Horses and other livestock smuggled across the Mexican border increase the risk of horses coming into the US with infectious diseases such as piroplasmosis which could lead to epidemics in the United States.
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The Effects of Bacteria on Synovial Structures in Horses
Researchers looked at the influence of synovial fluid culture on prognosis of septic synovitis in horses to see if horses with a positive bacterial culture from septic synovial fluid would be less likely to survive or return to successful athletic functi
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The Low Down on Laminitis in Equines
Equines come down down with laminitis for many reasons: too much spring grass, weight bearing, equine metabolic syndrome, equine Cushing's disease, and endotoxemia.