Equine Medicine

With the right tools and technique, you can avoid general anesthesia and still provide adequate analgesia during surgery. Here's your guide to several nerve blocks in your veterinary equine patients.

Watching a friendship form at an early age is one of the things I love best about my job as a veterinarian.

Dr. Dustin helps a mare recover from a retained placenta-and solves a decade-old mystery in the process.

This easy-to-use online tool keeps you current on equine infectious disease cases occurring in your state.

Collaborative partnerships between equine veterinarians and farriers support healthier hooves and horses.

Here's our latest rundown of new and notable veterinary products.

What makes horses do what they do? Dr. Robert Miller breaks down this ambitious topic into 10 main points. And, interestingly, all are related to the first-the equine flight instinct.

Persistence led Dr. Miller not only to his dream, but also to a lifelong friend and mentor.

After spending 26 days at the university for treatment, and many more months of recovery, the horse is back to his champion roping ways.

With a little less than three years to go, will equine researchers meet the ambitious goal of Vision 2020to conquer laminitis?

A stethoscope at the ready is a sign of progress in veterinary medicine, Dr. Miller says-it reflects an ability to differentiate normal from abnormal.

SCA Pharmaceuticals is voluntarily recalling products, mainly analgesics, that were distributed to both veterinary and human hospitals.

One veterinary investigation warns against compounded omeprazole; the other shows a positive effect for a polysaccharide blend.

Once thought to occur only in foals, these viral infections in adults have been increasingly reported.

You'd like to think every surgery can be a success, but thats not reality. Here's how Dr. Bo Brock tries to learn from the not-so-great moments of veterinary practice.

How veterinary technicians can lead overweight horses down a healthier path using physical rehabilitation.

Dr. Robert Miller says when it comes to working with horses, every offense you commit from a horse's point of view needs a preplanned defense on your part.

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As a teenager, Dr. Bo Brock heard tell of a giant in the equine lameness field. Decades later, he got to work with him for a week.

Here's our weekly rundown of new and notable veterinary products.

Although horse owners may fear the worst (and sometimes theyre right), many conditions are highly treatableand veterinarians can often manage the process right on the farm.

Ambulatory practitioners have so much cool tech at their fingertips now, its a shame not to use it. Heres what we use in our practice.

Here's our weekly rundown of new and notable veterinary products.

Equine veterinarians can educate horse owners and farm managers about the risk of using a same-old, same-old approach to dewormingand offer a custom approach for each farm.

Here's our weekly rundown of new and notable veterinary products.