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Horse Health Lines: Summer 2006

The Summer 2006 issue of Horse Health Lines is now available in PDF format. Inside, you’ll find: • The $60,000 Investment in Equine Health: WCVM scientists have received nearly $60,000 from the Equine Health Research Fund for four new research projects. • Lidocaine: Colic’s Damage Controller?: Can equine surgeons rely on this local anesthetic to control damage after small intestinal …

July 27th, 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 »