Researchers might not know everything about horse health conditions, but they often know enough about ailments to render some type of treatment. However, there are some conditions that remain ...

A Rutgers scientist aiming to help heal a sick horse created an ultra-sensitive DNA test that could have applications for difficult-to-detect illnesses in humans such as Lyme disease. A Rutgers ...

The first sign was a limp. Then he suffered a seizure that sent him sliding off the couch and left him wobbly, at first, when he stood. While the diagnosis was common to many people -- Lyme disease -- ...

Diagnosing Lyme disease in horses is tricky business; not all horses that contract the causative bacterium, Borrellia burgdorferi, from infected ticks develop the debilitating condition, and those ...

Dear Dr. Vittoria: Recently the barn where my horse is boarded started the Lyme disease vaccine. I trail ride and have found deer ticks too numerous to count on my horse over the years. He has been ...

A Rutgers scientist aiming to help heal a sick horse has created an ultra-sensitive DNA test that could have applications for difficult-to-detect illnesses such as Lyme disease in humans. As described ...