Ros Tate had never heard of the condition guttural pouch mycosis (GPM) until her dressage mare, Supreme’s Shania, was rushed to hospital last May. After learning that emergency surgery was necessary, ...

Hidden at the base of the horse’s skull is a pair of air-filled guttural pouches. These are pockets, or “out-pouchings”, of the auditory (Eustachian) tubes, which connect the nasopharynx (the area ...

Two horses at risk for life-threatening bleeding caused by an uncommon infection of the internal carotid artery were successfully treated recently by University of Florida veterinarians who used ...