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Bid to Ban Furosemide Fails in Kentucky
A proposal to ban an anti-bleeding drug on race days in Kentucky lost on Monday, April 16, in a debate dividing a thoroughbred industry struggling to preserve the Bluegrass stateâs reputation as the nationâs horse capital.
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AAEP Prudent Drug Usage Guidelines
The health and welfare of horses and their owners is the primary goal of members of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP). We believe that these guidelines merely reiterate the standard of practice and what is common in equine veterinary
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Canada Bans Vedaprofen in Horse Competitions
The Equine Canada Medication Control Committee announced this week that the anti-inflammatory drug Vedaprofen will no longer be a permitted medication in Equine Canada sanctioned competitions beginning June 1, 2012.
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Horse Owners Warned About Use of Unapproved Drugs
The recent human meningitis outbreak, caused by the injection of contaminated compounded steroid products prepared by the New England Compounding Center,1 has put compounding pharmacies into the daily headlines. With a death toll reaching 39 and a reporte
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CHDA Sponsors Morris Animal Study
The Colorado Horse Development Authority (CHDA) recently chose to co-sponsor a study funded by Morris Animal Foundation on finding a fertility vaccine to help control wild horse populations. The research is being conducted at Colorado State University. T
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New AAEP Rules for Non-Racing Competitive Horses
The AAEP has established guidelines for veterinarians involved in treating non-racing performance horses which compete in a wide range of athletic activities and may need different treatment than those involved in racing. Since a majority of AAEP membe
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New Vaccine for African Horse Sickness Questioned
The scientific community and the government is questioning the legality, safety and efficacy of a new âvaccineâ for the deadly African Horse Sickness (AHS) virus developed by a group headed by the head of apartheid South Africaâs clandestine biologi
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Pfizer Licenses Technology for Hendra Vaccine for Horses
The technology used to develop a new vaccine as an aid in the prevention of clinical disease caused by Hendra virus in horses has been licensed from The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (HJF) by Pfizer Animal Heal
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CVM Adds to Data Base of Adverse Drug Effects
The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has announced that, along with the "signs associated with an animal drug" currently reported in its Cumulative ADE Summaries Report, it would now, also, provide the "number of tim
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Deadline for Free Vaccines for Unwanted Horses Approaches
Equine rescue and retirement facilities are invited to apply for free vaccines through the Unwanted Horse Veterinary Relief Campaign (UHVRC), a program sponsored by the American Association of Equine Practitioners and Merck Animal Health. The deadline for