AVMA Opposes Use of Double-Deck Trailers for Transporting Horses and Other Equines
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has reinforced its opposition to the use of double-deck trailers to transport horses and other equines by approving a new policy on the Humane Transport of Equines. The policy, approved by the AVMA Ex...Fat Horses Face Health Problems
Americas growing obesity problem has alarmed physicians and public health officials, and veterinarians have recently focused their attention on fat dogs and cats . Now, a team of researchers in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine (VMRCVM) and the College o...Experimental Therapy Effective Against Malignant Melanoma in Horses
Dr. John L. Robertson, a professor in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech and director of the college's Center for Comparative // Oncology (CECO) has been studying the similarities of malignant melanoma in horses and humans and has devised an experimental ...Unlocking the key to human fertility
... Where the locks and keys of two species do not match, however similar their DNA is, no viable offspring can be born. Occasionally, for example, with horses and donkeys, offspring are produced - but because the sperm and egg signatures are incompatible, their development as embryos is abnormal and any offs...Eleven Veterinary Students Win Top Awards at Morris Animal Foundation's Annual Research Competition
...tion, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 1948, is dedicated to funding animal health research that protects, treats and cures companion animals, horses and wildlife. MAF has been at the forefront of funding breakthrough research studies benefiting animals on all seven continents. MAF has its headquart...Betty White Talks 'Animals' With The Grandfather of Possibilities
...tion, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 1948, is dedicated to funding animal health research that protects, treats and cures companion animals, horses and wildlife. MAF has been at the forefront of funding breakthrough research studies benefiting animals on all seven continents. MAF has its headquart...Rare sheep could be key to better diagnostic tests in developing world, says Stanford study
...eract with the blood cells in culture. In the developed world, microbiologists use sheep or horse blood. But in many parts of the developing world, horses are prohibitively expensive, and regular sheep, with their constant need for shearing and tendency to get infections, are difficult to keep alive. Imp...Pennsylvania Agriculture Department Issues Quarantine for Allegheny County Horse Stable
... Three of Four Sampled horses Test Positive for Equine Herpesvirus HARRISBURG, Pa., July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- horses at Rolling Hills Ranch stable in Bridgeville, Alle...County, have been quarantined after at least three horses tested positive for the neurologic form of Equine ...Increasing Dairy Milk Production with Electrolyzed Drinking Water
...e School serves a distinctly diverse array of animal patients, from pets to horses to farm animals at our two campuses. In Philadelphia, on Penn's campus, are...er, in Kennett Square, Pa., encompasses hospital facilities for the care of horses and food animals as well as diagnostic laboratories serving the agriculture...Evidence of earliest known domestic horses found in Kazakhstan
The earliest known domesticated horses were both ridden and milked according to a new report published in the March 6, 2009 edition of the journal Science . The findings by an international team of archaeologists could point to the very beginnings of horse domestication and help explain its early...Sweets make young horses harder to train in Montana State study
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Young horses may be easier to train if they temporarily lay off the sweets, says a Montana State University study where two-year-olds wore pedometers, wrist watches and Ace bandages. A commercial mixture of corn, oats, barley and molasses -- sometimes called "sweet grain" or "...Climate-caused biodiversity booms and busts in ancient plants and mammals
.... "But 50 million years ago, when temperatures were at their highest, that area was a tropical rainforest teeming with lemur-like primates, small dawn horses and a number of small forest rodents and other mammals. In fact, there were more species of mammals living in the western part of North America at tha...Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline
...umulated in a big and shifting pile. Given the rarity of bones marked by shark bites, plus the occurrence of terrestrial animals such as tapirs and horses that must have washed out to sea, predation by sharks like Carcharocles megalodon seems unlikely to have been the major source of the bone bed, the au...CU-Boulder study shows 53 million-year-old high Arctic mammals wintered in darkness
...ars as the climate shifted. "This study may provide the behavioral smoking gun for how modern groups of mammals like ungulates -- ancestors of today's horses and cattle -- and true primates arrived in North America," said Eberle, also an assistant professor in CU-Boulder's geological sciences department. ...Minimizing the spread of deadly Hendra virus
...a virus spreads promises to save the lives of both horses and humans in the future. CSIRO Livestock Indus...ter understanding how Hendra spreads from infected horses to other horses and humans. Funded by the Australian Biosecur...Young dinosaurs roamed together, died together
...id Varricchio, an assistant professor of paleontology at MSU. "The best examples are from hoofed mammals," such as water buffalo in Australia or feral horses in the American West, he said. The first bones from the dinosaur herd were spotted by a Chinese geologist in 1978 at the base of a small hill in a ...Novel veterinary procedure detecting life-threatening injuries touted
.... It is wonderful to see this technique come back to the veterinary world, as the very first description of using ultrasound for these purposes was in horses more than 20 years ago. Additionally, the absolutely beautiful figures accompanying the study are very illustrative and set a standard for all." Re...Decline of carbon-dioxide-gobbling plankton coincided with ancient global cooling
...pect if grasslands were the cause." As an example of that kind of increase, Rabosky turned to another fossil record: horse teeth. Before grasslands, horses had small teeth suited for chewing soft leaves. But as grasslands appeared, much hardier teeth appeared adapted to a lifetime of chewing tough, silica...100-meter sprint world record could go as low as 9.48 seconds
... the species' performances already levelled off? Plotting the annual top running speeds for all three species over the years, it was clear that racing horses and dogs have already reached a plateau. There has been no improvement in the thoroughbred's speed in the Kentucky Derby since the 1940s and two other...The Foundation for Biomedical Research Wins Telly Award for Majestic
...rring the top equine veterinarians whose research is extending the lives of horses and humans WASHINGTON, May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Fou... and animal research developments that are extending the life expectancy of horses with osteoarthritis and other joint injuries; these same procedures are oft...Developing a Safer and More Effective Way to Deliver Rabies Antibodies
...re concerns that it may not provide the proper antibody response, and there are international animal care and use issues because of the involvement of horses in its production. In developing countries, where the majority of human rabies cases occur, both types of RIG are frequently unavailable. The C...ThermoGenesis Subsidiary Vantus Announces Stem Cell Agreement With UC Davis Center For Equine Health
...ries and disease in animals," noted Dr. William Osgood, Chief Executive Officer of ThermoGenesis. "The risk of orthopedic injury to these high-value horses and their racing careers is well known. The potential for the use of stem cells to treat these debilitating, and often life-threatening, injuries is s...Pfizer Animal Health and NTRA Charities Team Up to Benefit the Barbaro Memorial Fund
... is a potentially devastating disease that affects horses at all levels of equine sports and across discipli...d champions like Barbaro, right on to recreational horses loved by their riders and owners," said Kristin Ru...he health of livestock and poultry; and in helping horses and pets to live longer and healthier lives. For a...Vet-Stem and Central Veterinary Research Labs of Dubai Sign Exclusive License
...d race horses, Arabian endurance horses, racing camels, and many other species. Vet-Stem's clients in the United States have already treated over 2500 horses and over 100 dogs with arthritis, tendon, and ligament injuries with a success rate of over 70% return to normal performance. (Logo: http://www.news...Seven good reasons to approve the Institutes for Discovery
...e Trojans hauled that giant wooden statue inside their walls, and woke up to the sound of armed Greeks in the streets, people have been examining gift horses carefully. There's generally nothing wrong with that careful policy - within reason. The state Building Commission will define what's within reason...CIO Leadership Series: David Melbye, Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District
...dors were performance-driven so at any point in time the district could have extricated itself from either a product or a service contract, and change horses in mid-stream. The focus was on deliverables, and vendors caught on to that very quickly, hitting their targets. The Lawson core financial module, for...Donor Equine Serum from Equitech-Bio
Description:... All serum is extensively scrutinized, including negative EIA as release criteria. All horses are of U.S. Orgin. Diet and worming are controlled and documented to ensure lot to lot consistency. Pricing: $12/unit for 1 - 10 units/ $9.50/unit ...