horse health
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WCVM student receives equine scholarship
Hayley Lang, a WCVM veterinary student from Humboldt, Sask., is one of 33 equine-focused veterinary students in North America and the West Indies to receive a financial boost from the Winner’s Circle Scholarship program. Lang, who will begin her fourth and final year at the veterinary college this fall, is guaranteed a minimum of US $1,500 in scholarship support through …
June 24th, 2009 Full story »
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Horse Health Lines: Autumn 2008
Rhodococcus equi pneumonia, equine ocular anomalies, gastric ulcers and a unique fundraising initiative for horse health research are among the topics highlighted in the latest issue of Horse Health Lines — the publication for the Western College of Veterinary Medicine’s Equine Health Research Fund. Click here to download your own copy of the Autumn 2008 issue of Horse Health Lines. …
October 21st, 2008 Full story »
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Horse Health Lines: Autumn 2007
The Autumn 2007 issue of Horse Health Lines is now available to readers (download PDF). Here are some of the highlights from this issue: • OVER THE FIRST HURDLE: Western Canadian horse owners rise to the challenge and raise an additional $200,000 for horse health research this year. • SARCOID SLEUTHS: An unattractive equine skin tumour is getting a lot of second …
October 30th, 2007 Full story »
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Horse health on display at Mane Event
A team of WCVM representatives and local B.C. equine veterinarians met with hundreds of horse enthusiasts during the Mane Event Equine Education and Trade Fair that took place from October 19 to 21 in Chilliwack, B.C. Throughout the three-day event, team members talked to visitors about the College’s equine health research and training programs that are supported by the Equine …
October 25th, 2007 Full story »
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EHRF fellowship program expands
This year, members of the Equine Health Research Fund management committee and advisory board agreed to expand the Fund’s fellowship program so it could financially support the training of three EHRF Fellows at WCVM in 2007-08. Creation of an additional fellowship became possible after the Fund received a $125,000 contribution from the Heather Ryan and L. David Dubé Foundation in …
October 23rd, 2007 Full story »
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Horse Health Lines: Fall 2005
Click here to check out our feature articles in the Fall 2005 issue of Horse Health Lines. • Blinded by the Night: Veterinary ophthalmologist Dr. Lynne Sandmeyer is leading one of the most comprehensive research investigations of congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) in Appaloosa horses ever undertaken. • The Cutting Edge in Equine Surgery: WCVM’s major expansion and renovation plans …
June 02nd, 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 »
