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Horse Health
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Selenium, an Essential Mineral - What Horse Owners Need to Know
Severely affected foals have breakdown of their muscles "tying up," leading to progressive weakness, organ damage, and sometimes death.
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Metabolic Disease in Horses - Misinformation
Spring grass season makes attention turn to equine metabolic disorders but there is a wealth of misinformation out there and a clear lack of supporting research.
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Researchers Determining if Cartilage Chips Are an Answer to Horse Joint Injuries
Large cartilage defects are a challenge to treat, but so-called cartilage chips have shown significant clinical promise in human medicine and have potential in treatment of horses.
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Managing Horse's Weight During these Trying Times
Planning on turning your horse out to grass during this current situation or at any other time? It’s worth installing a strip grazing fence and moving it once a day.
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Free ISELP Webinar on Orthobiologic Therapy in Horses at Noon ET 5/14
The International Society of Equine Locomotor Pathology is hosting a webinar this Thursday, May 14 at noon ET to discuss orthobiologic medicine covering therapeutic applications in equine sports medicine.
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Deciphering Vitamin D in Horses with Diarrhea
Vitamin D is involved in regulation of calcium and phosphorus, bone health, controls the immune system, and reduces inflammation in horses and humans.
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Researcher Investigating Benefits of Hemp For Horses
Research study seeks to quantify how CBD affects inflammation, stress and stereotypical negative behaviors in horses.
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AAEP Updates Equine Vaccination Guidelines Relative to Coronavirus Pandemic
It is hoped that these updated guidelines will be a useful in preventing or mitigating the effects of infectious diseases in equines.
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Prevention - The Best Medicine for Warm Weather Pests Making Life Miserable for Horses
Much can be done to minimize the population of internal and external horse parasites and the effects they have on horse health, comfort and well being.
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Lessons Learned from West Nile Virus
The natural pattern of a new disease is a high rate of infection because horses (in this case) have no disease resistance, since the immune system does not recognize the new bug.