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Equine Practioners Annual Symposium Addressing Horse Health Issues

The Northeast Association of Equine Practitioners is currently holding their 2013 Annual Symposium from September 25-28, 2013 including 80 hours of continuing education featuring lameness, reproduction, and ophthalmic disorders.

Equine Assisted Therapy Helps Military

Horseback riding can be fun recreation, and it is also great therapy for wounded warriors at Spirithorse Chisholm Trail Center near Comanche. Jan Smith, Spirithorse owner and equine therapist, established the program in May of this year to provide therap

Man Arrested for Dumping Horse Carcasses in California

During the investigation, detectives worked with the UC Davis Veterinary Forensics Laboratory to track the DNA of one of the dead horses, and the lab came up with a match.

Kindred Biosciences Receives FDA Approval of Zimeta™ (dipyrone injection) for the Control of Pyrexia in Horses

Pyrexia, or fever, is associated with underlying diseases that can result in negative outcomes, including dehydration, laminitis, weight loss, and in some cases death.

BUCKEYE Nutrition Brand Proud to be Associated with 14 Research Papers Presented at the Equine Science Society Symposium

BUCKEYE's scientific contributions to global events such as ESS and American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine demonstrate the brand’s commitment to high quality research and equine well-being.

Journey Through Your Horse's Joints

Equine Guelph’s online tool, Journey through the Joints, sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health, is designed to take horse people on an interactive journey from a healthy joint to an inflamed, arthritic joint.

Biosecurity and Hygiene Key to Disease Prevention

According to veterinary services at UC Davis many managers of equine facilities and events have imposed EHV-1 vaccination requirements for incoming and resident horses in the hope that EHV-1 infection, particularly the neurological form, can be prevent

Hay Needed for Starving Equines

The Oregon Hay Bank continues to save the lives of starving equines across the state. But more donations of cash, hay and labor are desperately needed to save more animals, officials say. In difficult economic times, horses, ponies, donkeys and mu

Proper Nutrients Help Maintain Hoof Health

It could be debated that one of most pivotal roles of a horse's anatomy is that of its hooves. The hoof itself is a skin derived appendage called hoof horn which protects the underlying corium of the foot. A wall of hoof horn surrounds the base of the

FDA Approves First Drug to Treat Cushing’s Disease in Horses

The Food and Drug Administration announced today the approval of Prascend (pergolide mesylate) for the control of clinical signs associated with Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction (PPID or Equine Cushing’s disease) in horses.

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