Equine Medicine

Proper diet is important throughout equine gestation, but its especially critical in the first and third trimesters.

Veterinary researchers are weighing in on this question critical to optimal horse health and owners' pocketbooks.

Affected horses are in isolation in Sunland Park, New Mexico.

White was awarded the Distinguished Life Member Award for his leadership and substantial volunteerism during his 43 years of membership.

Three concerns to be on the look out for in your veterinary patients and how to treat them.

Committee says drug poses no global public health threat worth possibly limiting access to the drug in areas of the developing world.

My own frightening pain helped me understand how awful veterinary patients with colic must feel.

Robotics-driven design provides an unlimited range of motion and unencumbered access to the horse's entire anatomy.

Udon P is back in fine form after undergoing treatment for atrial fibrillation.

Dr. Dean Richardson looks back at a veterinary career continuously on the leading edge of equine orthopedic surgery.

R. equi is one of the most important causes of disease in young horses, researchers say.

C. Wayne McIlwraith looks back on a veterinary career dedicated to studying and fixing equine joints.

A variety of new products are in development to halt the morbidity and mortality associated with cancer, arthritis and much more.

Early diagnosis and veterinary treatment are key to saving the sight of equine patients with IMMK.

Fluid analysis can provide important insights into how to manage colic and other troubling equine cases.

These grafts involve relocating the skin from a donor site to cover a wound and restore function and cosmesis in your veterinary equine patients.

New veterinary treatment options for this common cause of equine lameness are encouraging, but early results raise questions that need answering.

Lameness is a clinical sign. Detecting lameness and evaluating its amplitude is important to equine veterinary practice.

Veterinary hospitals, by their very nature, create a high risk environment for the transmission of infections agents bringing together animals from many different farms with varying levels of compromise.

Veterinarians evaluate the horse at the lunge and perform flexion tests during lameness and pre-purchase evaluations.

Salmonella enterica is commonly associated with epidemic disease in veterinary hospitals and on-farm environmental contamination [1; 2].

Epidemics of healthcare-associated infections in veterinary teaching hospitals are commonly attributed to Salmonella enterica [1].

Evaluation of horse under saddle is performed routinely by some veterinarians and almost not at all by others.

Disease epidemics can progress slowly, affecting only a few animals, or they can progress very rapidly affecting many animals in a wide geographic region, as was seen in the equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) outbreak in 2011 in the western U.S. and Canada.

In the era of evidence-based medicine or the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients [1] it is critical that practitioners have a strong epidemiological foundation upon which clinical experience and best available external evidence can be integrated.

Diagnostic testing is an integral part of the practice of veterinary medicine but are all test results equal?

Veterinary hospitals, by their very nature, create a high risk environment for the transmission of infections agents bringing together animals from many different farms with varying levels of compromise. Outbreaks of healthcare-associated infections commonly occur in veterinary hospitals with 82% of American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) accredited veterinary teaching hospitals (VTHs) reporting such events within the previous 5 years [1].

Veterinarians must take appropriate precautions to mitigate the risk of infectious disease in patients and hospital personnel.

In this presentation an overview of pathological self-injurious behavior (ESMS) is being discussed.

Lameness in horses is most effectively understood by studying vertical motion of the torso.