Authoritative yet easy to read, Sheep and Goat Medicine, 2nd Edition covers all the latest advances in sheep and goat medicine, including medical treatment, surgery, theriogenology, and nutrition.

Scrapie is a disease of the nerves and muscles of sheep, so named because bleating victims rub themselves against fence posts or wire to relieve the itching that goes with it, and in doing so scrape ...

New research shows how medicine for the brain can be absorbed through the nose. This paves the way to more effective treatment of neurological diseases like Alzheimer's and tumors in the brain. A big ...

Scientists at Edinburgh University’s Roslin Institute have created a flock of sheep that carry the gene for a heritable brain disorder in humans called Batten disease. The condition usually starts in ...

Sheep may have a reputation of not being very smart but a NSW researcher thinks she can teach sheep to take their own pain relief. Danila Marini's PhD project is exploring the feasibility of adding ...

When the medical world was agog over the discovery that blood circulates through the body, imaginative surgeons tried to transfuse sheep’s blood into human patients weakened by too generous ...