Dr. Renée Poirrier (LSU SVM 1988), Lafayette veterinarian and director of the Louisiana State Animal Response Team, traveled to the Domincan Republic and Haiti from February 7-14 to join an international coalition of animal emergency aid workers in Haiti. She responded as a member of the Internatio...

Farmers across the Midwest struggled in 2009 to harvest their crops in what has turned out to be an unseasonably wet autumn. These conditions have led to reports of widespread mold in the 2009 corn crop. Moldy corn is a hazard for all species of livestock, but horses are particularly sensit...

World-renowned equine nutritionists and veterinarians have been tapped to speak at the 17th Kentucky Equine Research Nutrition Conference, to be held April 26-27, 2010, in Lexington, KY. The theme of this year’s conference is “Feeding and Veterinary Management of the Sport Horse,” which is par...

Veterinary researchers at the University of Glasgow have succeeded in killing equine sarcoid cells by silencing genes in the virus which cause tumours on horses. The team at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, led by Prof Lubna Nasir, a specialist in comparative oncology, are now hoping to obtain...