Happy Halloween with Osirix: A Pumpkin MRI

It's that time of year...and what better way to celebrate Halloween than with a MRI of a pumpkin, rendered via Osirix imaging software? Can you see the seeds inside?



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Silent Anvil: Kevin Howes' Video Would Have Brightened a Rainy Day

I believe it was 2009 when British farrier Kevin Howes of Ridgeway Forge Farriers starred in this video about what it's like to be a farrier for Kent Television and the general promotion of British farriery.

I've always meant to post it on the blog, but now regret that I saved this one for a rainy day.

Kevin was killed in a car accident a few days ago in the county of Kent, England where he

A Slice of Life: Behind-the-Scenes of Equine Anatomy with Dr. Christoph von Horst

Suppose you could suspend the animation of a bird or a fish or a horse...by preserving its anatomy in whatever angle or gesture or exposure you wished. That's the power that Germany's Christoph von Horst wields in his plastination laboratory.

Everything that was once alive not only lives again, but lives forever. It may no longer be living and breathing, but it's catching light and

Ohio State Belknap Grant: Laser Capture Microdissection in Equine Laminitis

via press release

The Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) Pilot and Collaborative Translational and Clinical Science Program at The Ohio State University has awarded James Belknap, DVM, PhD, a pilot grant to be used for his research of equine laminitis.

Laminitis is a crippling disease that affects horses. Similar to organ injury in humans with sepsis, it entails an

Dressage, Fuego-Style: It's What's Underneath That Counts as Euro Rocker Shoes Score for Spain

Update: The horseshoe explained in this article is the subject of an update post published 18 February 2012 with a dressage horse in California. Be sure to click on this link after you read this original story: ON THE (Dressage) CASE: Euro Rock ‘n Roll Horseshoe Evolves with Vet-Farrier Collaboration, California Style



Fuego XII, now known as Fuego de Cardenas, is one of the top ten FEI

Laminitis in a Moose? Vermont's "Pete the Moose" Isn't the First--Just the Most Famous--Moose to Founder

The state of Vermont is astir today with the news that one of its most beloved--and controversial--residents has succumbed to what is being called "laminitis". The latest victim of the merciless foot disease is not one of the Green Mountain State's signature Morgans. It's not an iconic draft horse on one of the dairy farms. It's not even a backyard pony.

This time laminitis--or something like

Vet-Farrier-Therapist Team Behind the Team at the Pan Am Games Dressage Event

The 2011 Pan Am Games opened tonight in Guadalajara, Mexico with a gala opening ceremony. First though, the dressage horses had to pass the veterinary inspection at 9 a.m. this morning: so far, so good as far as we know.

It sounds like Team USA has so far kept out of the way of the Mexican hurricane Jova, but the weather was bad enough that ESPN reported the opening ceremonies might be

Bodo Hertsch: German Veterinarian, Researcher and Educator's Accidental Death Leaves an Empty Podium and an Empty Saddle

Professor Doctor Bodo-Wolfhard Hertsch, 68, a noted international researcher and educator on laminitis and navicular disease in horses, has died at Eichenhof Tremsdorf, the equestrian center he ran with his wife outside Berlin in Germany.

The cause of death being reported by German web sites is that he died of injuries after he fell from a horse.

"His death for us as humans, horses, expert

Laminitis Conference Open Poster Session Designed to Convert Attendees Into Collaborators

Ideas move the future forward: Share yours at the Laminitis Conference in West Palm Beach


The Sixth International Equine Conference on Laminitis and Diseases of the Foot gets underway in just under three weeks. The conference returns to West Palm Beach, Florida with a triple-focus program in scientific, clinical and horse management advancements in the study, causes and treatment of

Secretariat's Death by Laminitis, Revisited: The Night the News Anchors Learned About Laminitis

Secretariat's death announcement on local Virginia television news


Do you remember where you were on October 4, 1989? Maybe you hadn't even been born. Or maybe you still remember that feeling of loss, of stunned disbelief, that the horse to end all horses was no longer in a paddock somewhere in Kentucky.

We know so much more about laminitis now than we did then, but could