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Western College of Veterinary Medicine's Horse Health Lines (Summer 2007) now

June 27, 2007

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan --- The Summer 2007 issue of Horse Health

Lines, news publication for the Western College of Veterinary Medicine’s Equine Health

Research Fund, is now online at http://www.ehrf.usask.ca (click on “Horse Health

Lines”).

Highlights from this issue of Horse Health Lines include:

• an update about WCVM's new fund raising incentive that could potentially earn an

additional $1 million for equine health research at WCVM during the next five years.

• summaries of three major horse health research projects at WCVM that have received

funding from the Heather Ryan and L. David Dubé Veterinary Health and Research

Fund.

• summaries of eight new horse health research projects that earned financial support

from the Equine Health Research Fund for 2007-08.

• a profile of Dr. Fernando J. Marqués, a veterinary internal medicine specialist at the

Western College of Veterinary Medicine whose background includes an exciting career

in Argentina's show jumping ring.

• vital horse health management information about the failure of passive transfer in foals.

• a research report on whether the use of equine follicle stimulating hormone (eFSH) can

improve the success of embryo transfer in equine reproduction.

• a profile of a horse owner in British Columbia whose unique plans for donating to the

Equine Health Research Fund combine two of her life's greatest passions: books and

horses.

Published twice a year, Horse Health Lines includes research updates, donor profiles,

horse health management articles and other news related to the veterinary college’s

Equine Health Research Fund. With the support of Western Canada’s horse industry, the

fund annually invests in equine health research grants, equine fellowships and a summer

research program for undergraduate veterinary students at WCVM.

WCVM is a Canadian centre for veterinary education, expertise and research that’s

located on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon, Sask. Nearly 400

undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled at the college that annually attracts

more than $5 million in veterinary research funding from public and private sources.