Veterinary advances

When colic progresses to sepsis, the outcome can be fatal — and until now, no validated tool existed to detect it early in adult horses. A new study from France changes that with a six-parameter scoring system built from ten years of emergency colic cases.

Tendon injuries recur in more than half of horses managed conventionally. A new randomized controlled trial tested a two-step approach — PRP followed by autologous muscle-derived stem cells — and found meaningful clinical and ultrasonographic improvements in horses that hadn't responded to PRP alone.