Archives: Equine Health

February 23, 2020

2020 SCAAEP Equine Health Symposium

The annual Equine Health Symposium, sponsored by the NC State Student Chapter of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (SCAAEP), provides equine focused veterinary professionals with practical, up-to-date information on topics useful in everyday practice. The topics presented at this year’s symposium will be Ophthalmology (Saturday) and Foal Management in the Field (Sunday). Sunday will
February 22, 2020

2020 SCAAEP Equine Health Symposium

The annual Equine Health Symposium, sponsored by the NC State Student Chapter of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (SCAAEP), provides equine focused veterinary professionals with practical, up-to-date information on topics useful in everyday practice. The topics presented at this year’s symposium will be Ophthalmology (Saturday) and Foal Management in the Field (Sunday). Sunday will
September 25, 2019

CVM Awarded Funding for Equine Colic Study

The latest round of funding was awarded to studies determined to have, “the greatest potential to save lives, preserve health and advance veterinary medicine,” according to the organization.
Kate Hepworth, clinical assistant professor of equine medicine at the NC State Veterinary Hospital. Photo by John Joyner/NC State Veterinary Medicine
August 26, 2019

New to the CVM Family: Meet Kate Hepworth

Kate Hepworth is a clinical assistant professor of equine medicine at the NC State Veterinary Hospital.
July 31, 2019

N.C. Sees First Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis Case of the Year

A 4-year-old unvaccinated mare in Cumberland County has been euthanized after contracting North Carolina’s first case of Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis this year, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services reports. A mosquito-borne disease preventable by vaccination, EEE causes inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. It is usually fatal. People, horses and birds
July 29, 2019

CVM Grad Student Wins National Veterinary Research Award

NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Ph.D. student Amy Stieler Stewart is the winner of the 2019 Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Graduate Award for her innovative research using stem cells to treat intestinal injury. Stewart received the honor during last weekend’s National Veterinary Scholars Symposium co-sponsored Boehringer Ingelheim, a pharmaceutical company specializing in human and animal
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July 24, 2019

CVM Surgeon Offers Insight into Early Equine Colic Prevention

When he talks about horse colic, equine surgeon Anthony Blikslager usually talks about antibiotics and biomarkers, about lesions and intestinal-scarring parasites.  He talks about twisted bowels and impacted colons and hernias. But in his latest published study, Blikslager steps out of the operating room and into horse stables to talk directly to owners about what
July 17, 2019

CVM Researcher Awarded Immunology Fellowship

Alix Berglund, a postdoctoral research scholar at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, has received a Careers in Immunology Fellowship from the American Association of Immunologists. The fellowship awards a primary investigator a year of salary support for a trainee in their lab. Berglund and Lauren Schnabel, CVM associate professor of equine surgery, were
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June 24, 2019

New to the CVM Family: Meet Beth Mancini

Beth Mancini is an animal attendant at the NC State Veterinary Hospital's Equine and Farm Animal Veterinary Center.
June 19, 2019

CVM Faculty Awarded Funding for Innovative Therapy Research

Two projects from NC State College of Veterinary Medicine researchers involving new chronic pain therapies for both animals and humans have received additional funding from the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute. Studies from Brian Gilger, professor of ophthalmology, and Lauren Schnabel, assistant professor of equine orthopedic surgery, are among 15 pilot projects selected for