Author name: Dr. Amelia Thornton

Having spent over a decade working at the intersection of veterinary pharmacology and equine care, I’ve seen firsthand how crucial effective pain management is to a horse’s long-term health and spirit. Early in my career, managing chronic pain or post-surgical inflammation meant relying heavily on broad-spectrum, non-selective NSAIDs like phenylbutazone (‘bute’) or flunixin meglumine. While […]

As a veterinary chemist who has spent over a decade analyzing animal pharmaceuticals and nutritional formulations, I find myself regularly discussing ivermectin with both concerned pet parents and fellow professionals. It is an incredibly powerful, history-making active ingredient, but because it is so widely used across different species, there is also a fair amount of