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) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A study published in the peer-reviewed Frontiers in Microbiology Journal in September showed promising results for treatment of ...

Horses graze at Mississippi State University’s Leveck Animal Research Center, also known on campus as the South Farm. The new Nancy Fair Link Laminitis Research Center will be housed in MSU’s College ...

H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes (G1) winner One in Vermillion , injured while training in New Mexico in the fall, was euthanized in Arizona Feb. 2 due to laminitis, according to owner Jonathan Kalman ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Construction of Mississippi State’s premier research facility to pioneer advancements in the prevention and treatment of equine laminitis is underway after a Monday [Nov. 10] ...

Multiple grade-1 placed colt Ferocious died April 7 as a result of laminitis. Co-owner Ramiro Restrepo said it had been a downward slide for the son of Flatter since running in the Feb. 1 Holy Bull ...