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Professor Melissa Mazan spoke with The Horse about equine asthma.

State-of-the-art technologies help to diagnose subtle lameness and respiratory disorders

Thanks to recent veterinary advances, leg fractures in horses don’t have to be life-threatening—or even career-ending.

The Preakness winner has stringhalt, but what does that mean for the racehorse’s participation in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes?

Kissing spines affect roughly 40% of horses. Here we review the inter-spinous ligament desmotomy (ISLD) procedure that we routinely perform to correct impinging DSPs.

José M. García-López, VMD, DACVS, DACVSMR I. INTRODUCTION Dorsal spinous process (DSP) impingement or overriding (ORDSP), often referred as “kissing ...

When a rare American Mammoth Jackstock donkey became increasingly lame, her owner turned to Dr. Carl Kirker-Head for help.

A full collaboration between Travis’s owner, primary care veterinarian, and Tufts Equine Center ends in a successful outcome