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Pfizer Guarantees Vaccines
Pfizer Animal Health stands behind its trusted line of vaccines with the Equine Immunization Support Guarantee, a program that provides up to $5,000 for reasonable diagnostic and treatment costs if a properly vaccinated horse contracts the correspondin
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Pfizer's Website Stresses Worm Control Strategies
According to a new Pfizer Animal Health website, a worm control strategy that considers all the factors involved is a better way to maintain the health of your horse. This useful website counsels horse owners to manage the worm burden in each individual h
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Feb 1, Deadline for Rescues to Receive Free Vaccines
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
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Prescribed Drug Abuse in Race Horses
Lifelong horse owner and former New York-Bred thoroughbred breeder graces the cover of todayâs New York Times as the lead-in to a story exposing the excessive drugging of racehorses. In the third part of the Death and Disarray at Americaâs Racetracks
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First Fertility Control Vaccine Approved for Wild Horses
Wildlife managers, along with The Humane Society of the United States, applaud official registration of the first contraceptive vaccine for horses. The HSUS had sponsored the move by the Environmental Protection Agency after more than two decades of trial
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Free Lecture: The Dope on Drug Testing of Equine Athletes
On Tuesday, April 2, Penn Vet will present The Dope on New Drug Research and Testing. The lecture is part of the First Tuesdays Lecture Series at Penn Vetâs New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, PA. The series offers the public open lectures on equine to
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Furosemide Regulations Approved for Kentucky Horse Racing
Beginning on opening day at Keeneland Race Course, only Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) veterinarians will be permitted to administer race-day furosemide , Salix, commonly called Lasix according to the KHRC in an advisory issued on Friday, August
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Thank a Researcher for Keeping Horses Well
Drugs, medications and toxins affect horses in many specific ways. Becauses of these effects, researchers are constantly working not only to develop new drugs and medications, but, also, to learn about the effects these substances have on horses, both lon
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Vet-VIPP Certification Assures Prescription Drug Quality
As a leading provider of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals and Prescription Product for Pets and Horses for 16 years, Heartland is pleased to announce that as of November 9th 2011, it has earned Veterinary-Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites (Vet-VIPPS) ac
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Horse Deworming Practices No Longer in the Dark Ages
We've Come a Long Way, Baby! Forty years ago, Don McLean was singing âBye, Bye Miss American Pieâ on the radio, gas was 55 cents a gallon, just 52 percent of American households had color television sets, and rotational deworming of horses was co