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Horses often are victims of accidental injury. Their gregarious nature, social hierarchy, heightened flight response, and handling and confinement by humans puts them at increased risk of trauma. A fairly common and usually catastrophic injury of horses is trauma to the head resulting in fracture of...
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Maxwell H.Gluck Equine Research Center
Date of publication :
01/25/2008
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964
Clinicians and researchers at the Ontario Veterinary College have teamed up to offer stem cell therapy to repair injured tendons and ligaments in horses.The move provides clients with a new treatment option for their animals and will allow OVC researchers to add scientific rigour to the anecdotal ev...
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Ontario Veterinary College release
Date of publication :
01/18/2008
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125
Colorado State University Equine Orthopaedic Research Center scientists have discovered that a topical cream may be the first cream available to both treat osteoarthritis and relieve pain. The first scientifically controlled study in horses testing the benefit of a topical diclofenac liposomal cream...
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Colorado Univ. Equine Orthopaedic Research Center
Date of publication :
01/16/2008
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694
Equine strangles is caused by Streptococcus equi, a biovar, or clonal descendent of an ancestral S. zooepidemicus. Recovery from the disease is accompanied by onset of acquired resistance to the disease in approximately 75% of horses, an immunity that persists for 5 years or longer — hence the great...
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Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center
Date of publication :
01/11/2008
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332
Editorial note: This paper is a follow-up to a report on glanders that appeared in the October 2003 Lloyds Equine Disease Quarterly. Diagnostic testing is evaluated according to how precise the test is in identifying a truly positive animal versus animals that are truly negative. Sensitivity is the ...
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Gluck Center - Equine Disease Quarterly
Date of publication :
01/04/2008
Views:
380
Fractured ribs should be considered a common clinical entity in neonatal foals. The problem may frequently be subclinical, but is potentially capable of causing peracute death due to secondary thoracic trauma. All foals should be considered as subject to fractured ribs although large birthweight foa...
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Virginia Tech Cooperative Extension
Date of publication :
12/27/2007
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292
Warmer weather speeds up the life cycles of some of the fly species that irritate horses and riders over the summer months and scientists say we can expect earlier, more prolonged attacks from greater numbers of flies.Dr Peter Bates, senior entomologist with the VLA, says the multi-generation flies ...
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Farming UK
Date of publication :
12/20/2007
Views:
155
Horse owners have a better chance of detecting disease and stress in a horse if they are familiar with the normal behavior and physiological parameters of the animal.Familiarity with what constitutes “normal” for a horse allows equine managers to respond quickly to abrupt or sizable changes, s...
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Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service
Date of publication :
11/22/2007
Views:
195
The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine is hosting a veterinary dermatology seminar entitled, “A Potpourri of Veterinary Dermatologic Diseases and Therapy” on Sunday, December 2. This seminar is generously sponsored by Vetoquinol USA Inc., Virbac Corporation, D.V.M. Pharmaceuticals (IVX Animal H...
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LSU School of Veterinary Medicine
Date of publication :
11/13/2007
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179
Symptoms of a contagious animal disease called pigeon fever have been found in dozens of horses in Eastern Oregon this fall.Despite the name, the disease is not spread by the bird. Rather, the bacterial infection can cause abscesses that lead a horse's chest to swell like a pigeon's.Dr. Fred Robinso...
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East Oregonian
Date of publication :
10/31/2007
Views:
222