Colic is a serious health concern for horses recovering from a variety of surgeries, illnesses, or injuries. Researchers are working to understand which conditions pose the biggest colic risk and to ...

Geriatric horses have lower survival rates than younger horses following exploratory colic surgery, but a year later there’s no significant difference in survival rates between the age groups, report ...

Often unpredictable and frequently not preventable, colic is a continual concern for all horse owners and is a frightening concept when it is your horse that is colicking. In the horse, "colic" ...

When most people hear the term colic, they think of human babies crying from a stomachache. But colic, the general term for abdominal pain, is the most common reason horses require emergency ...

Although horses have historically been known as working livestock, today they are often referred to as companion animals. More and more people are seeking to own pet horses, making large animal ...

WHEN YOU BECOME A VETERINARIAN, YOU DO WANT TO HELP ANIMALS. DOCTOR CHRIS SMITH HAS ALWAYS LOVED ANIMALS. I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU KIND OF GET THE BUG WHEN YOU’RE YOUNGER, ESPECIALLY HORSES. THE ...

Acupuncture may be an effective treatment option for babies with infantile colic -- those who cry for more than three hours a day on three or more days of the week, new research suggests. Acupuncture ...