Equine Industry News
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New EHRF chair: Dr. David Wilson
Dr. David Wilson is the new chair of the Equine Health Research Fund’s management committee. Wilson, a 1980 graduate of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, is a large animal surgical specialist and head of the college’s Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences. Since joining WCVM’s faculty in 1999, Wilson has led or supervised a number of EHRF-backed studies that …
October 05th, 2006 Full story »
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A quarter century of better health
During the mid-1970s, you could count the number of equine veterinary specialists and researchers living and working in Western Canada on the fingers of one hand. Once tractors finished replacing horse power in the 1940s, the incentive to improve horse health care had stalled in every western province. The region’s closest sources of advanced equine education and research were American …
October 19th, 2002 Full story »
