New campaign to track antimicrobial use in practice

Nutrition as an effective preventative medicine

Common equine parasites: past, present and future

Infectious respiratory disease: an update of common respiratory pathogens

Diagnosing urinary tract disease in adult horses. Part 1: abnormalities in the passage of urine

Are paracetamol and gabapentin effective equine analgesics?

Equine cheek teeth: the story the occlusal surface tells

The significance of chewing in horses

The mouth and teeth have two main functions: to chew food and to lubricate food with saliva. While no enzymatic digestion or absorption occurs at this time, mastication still represents the initial...

Using medicated patches to treat hoof wall infections

The hoof wall consists of three layers of horn (Pollitt, 1998; Reilly, 1998):.

The role of vitamin E deficiency in equine neuromuscular disorders

Although vitamin E is essential in equine diets, deficiency alone does not reliably cause disease. Many horses do not exhibit any clinical signs of disease associated with a vitamin E deficiency...

Examination of the term placenta: the ultimate disposable organ

Although the word placenta technically refers to the fetal and maternal components, it refers to just the fetal parts in common usage. Hence, for the purpose of this paper, the fetal membranes will be...

Diagnosis and treatment of equine sand enteropathy

Clinical signs associated with sand accumulation can be varied, nonspecific and often overlap with other presentations of gastrointestinal diseases. One of the most common presentations is acute colic...