Merck Health Matters was designed to bring not only medical information to veterinarians from experts in their fields, but to help veterinarians translate that information to educate their horse-owning clients. And studies have shown that better communication results in better compliance and more loyal clients.

With no new chemical dewormers on the horizon, novel strategies for controlling equine internal parasites are mandatory. Preliminary research into such alternative approaches revealed the ability of a bacterial protein to kill...