BEVA has opened the box office for its 60th Congress, taking place from 8th–10th September 2022 at the ACC in Liverpool.

This year’s programme includes five live streams running in parallel throughout the conference with clinical research presentations…

David Rendle, president elect of the British Equine Veterinary Association, is highlighting the plight of Ukrainian horses after returning from a trip to the Ukraine-Poland border to deliver veterinary supplies earlier this week.

David says that whilst…

Boehringer Ingelheim has received UK marketing authorisation for RenuTend - the first licensed treatment to improve healing of tendon injuries and suspensory ligaments in horses.

Renutend contains primed mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) which Boehringer says…

The British Equine Veterinary Association has launched a new practice pass for vets and nurses to make it easier and cheaper for all members of the team to visit Congress (8th – 10th September 2022, ACC, Liverpool). 

The new pass offers both physical…

Vetpartners has launched an initiative to help registered equine veterinary nurses develop fulfilling and rewarding careers.

The initiative is called Project NURSE, which stands for Nurturing and Using REVN Skills and Experience.

The first stage of Project…

The Blue Cross has released new figures which show that more horse owners may be struggling financially to keep their horse.

So far this year the charity says it has received 144 requests from people asking for it to take in or help rehome their horse or…

Dechra Veterinary Products has launched Strangvac, a protein-based strangles vaccine for horses and ponies.

Strangvac has been in development for over 25 years and Dechra says it's the first and only intramuscular vaccine to help protect against strangles…

Animalcare has taken over as the UK distributor of Danilon Gold, the equine NSAID.  

Danilon is used to relieve the pain caused by musculoskeletal conditions, such as osteoarthritis (OA), bursitis, laminitis, and soft tissue inflammation.

Some oral NSAIDs…

Dechra Veterinary Products (maker of Strangvac) has launched a strangles toolkit to support veterinary practices wanting to talk to their clients about this disease and how to control it with vaccination.

The pack contains:

• Ready-to use social media…

David Rendle, an independent equine medicine and therapeutics consultant and sheep farmer has been appointed as President of the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) for 2022/23.

He takes over the role from Huw Griffiths at the end of BEVA Congress…

The Equine Veterinary Journal (EVJ) has published a special virtual edition with a free collection of 20 articles exploring the relationship between horse-owner behaviour and equine health and welfare.

Until now, research in equine veterinary science has…

Zoetis is holding a free webinar for vet nurses, vets and RAMAs to discuss the latest advice on best practice use of anthelmintics and the responsible use of moxidectin in horses, on Wednesday 26th October.

The webinar will take place at 11am and will…

The Equine Veterinary Journal has published a special early view article reviewing the science behind enhanced equine influenza vaccination schedules, in particular the replacement of annual boosters with a mandatory bi-annual vaccination programme.
The article…

The British Equine Veterinary Association is encouraging veterinary practices to recognise and reward their nurses.

The initiative comes after BEVA's new nurse committee ran a survey which found a poor understanding within the profession and amongst clients…

Zoetis has announced a supply problem with Equip Artervac, its vaccine against equine viral arteritis

The current inventory of Equip Artervac has an expiry date of March 29, 2023 and the company is not expecting a new batch to be available until the end of…

CVS Equine has carried out an audit of antimicrobial use in its first opinion equine practices, both to better understand prescribing patterns and to create opportunities for further clinical research and guideline development.

Preliminary results, which…

Vets with Horsepower, an intrepid band of motorbiking vets, has helped BEVA hit its target of £20,000 to buy generators for colleagues in Ukraine.

Vets with Horsepower is organised annually by Professor Derek Knottenbelt to help raise funds for…

Dechra has published the results of a survey which shows how vets and horse owners could do more to prevent strangles. 

The survey of 50 vets carried out in May this year¹ found that only half of them are recommending strangles vaccination to their clients…

Virbac has developed new, recyclable packaging for its wormer, Equimax.

The new packaging uses fewer plastic components and a new cardboard box.

Sabrina Jordan, Virbac’s Equine Product Manager said: "The new cardboard component is a substantial step forward…

Dechra has launched Equisolon Jar, a new presentation of its oral prednisone powder for the treatment of severe equine asthma.

Dechra says Equisolon is the only registered oral prednisolone powder that alleviates the inflammation and clinical parameters…

BEVA has published guidance explaining what Schedule 3 tasks equine veterinary nurses are allowed to do.

The guidance was drawn up in response to a survey carried out by the association last year which found that a lack of understanding of Schedule 3 procedures…

IVC Evidensia has released the results of a survey of 90 veterinary professionals who visited BEVA 2023, finding there was a disparity between the importance of sustainability to them personally and how effectively their practice is working sustainably…

Zoetis has been granted a Wholesale Dealer Import Certificate (WDIC) to supply practices with an alternative rotavirus vaccine after being hit by manufacturing delays with this year’s season of Equip Rotavirus.

Practices which want to buy the alternative…

The British Equine Veterinary Association has introduced free equine vet nurse student membership. 

The offer has been made possible due to the generosity of Baker McVeigh, CVS Equine, IVC Evidensia, Newmarket Equine Hospital, Rossdales, VetPartners and…

A survey by the Gluck Equine Research Centre at the University of Kentucky and Spillers, published in the Equine Veterinary Journal¹, has revealed the main reasons why horses are retired.

The survey of 2717 horse owners, 56% of which were leisure owners…