Country House will grace Thoroughbred record books carrying an asterisk next to his name, but his significance over time will most likely be far greater because of his medical comeback in surviving ...

Laminitis: Coming Out of the Dark Italian equine podiatry veterinarian Lorenzo D'Arpe, DVM, of the University of Padua's Department of Clinical Sciences, presented some of his cases and research ...

A horse with laminitis will stand in a "sawhorse" stance, with all four legs angled out from the normal position. Educate yourself on laminitis, a debilitating and often fatal disease causing pain and ...

Laminitis -- a complex, common and often devastating disease -- is the second biggest killer of domestic horses. Now a body of important research on it has been compiled. Laminitis -- a complex, ...

During my college years, I worked on a ranch that was owned by a man who had a phobia about horse founder. He constantly hollered, "Don't founder that horse! Has that horse been foundered?" I didn't ...

Horses with acute diarrhea were less likely to survive if they developed laminitis, according to a study described at EquiManagement. Led by Dr. Diego Gomez of the University of Guelph, researchers ...

Insulin dysregulation, often underdiagnosed in sport horses, may increase the risk of developing laminitis after intra-articular injections of corticosteroids.

Horses laminitis is inflammation within the sensitive laminae of the feet. It can occur for many reasons, but as a nutritional problem it is commonly linked to grain-rich diets, ingestion of too much ...

While many people associate spring weather with laminitis, fall weather can also be an issue for susceptible horses, though there are physiological differences between fall and spring laminitis, ...

Founder or laminitis is a common disease of the horse's foot that can cause chronic lameness or even death. The laminia is a connective tissue that attaches the hoof to the coffin bone (see diagram 1) ...

Veterinarians at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine have announced plans to conduct the first clinical trial of an experimental drug that has shown promise in treating ...