Evidence moves health forward.

ForschungPferd reads equine and human research side by side, without ever merging the conclusions. Every page states the species studied, the level of evidence, and what the data do not support.

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Schimmel im Profil vor einem Schweizer Bergsee, überlagert von einem Netz aus Datenpunkten und Kurven.

28 checked syntheses
585 primary sources cited
60 glossary terms
4 languages, reviewed on substance

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On a dark background, vertical light stems grow taller towards the right, shifting from turquoise to red, crossed by a thin rising band of light.

Equine Health

Autumn ACTH in the horse: what a seasonal reference range really tells you

In autumn ACTH rises in healthy horses too: where the 29 and 47 pg/ml limits come from, and what breed, age and laboratory shift.

HOHorseArobust Open access

Cutaway model of a horse's foot: teal hoof capsule, ivory bones and a finely toothed border running along the inner hoof wall.

Comparative Health

Why a broken leg ends differently in a horse than in a person

At gallop a foreleg carries 14.0 newtons per kilogram: why in the horse it is the supporting limb, not the fracture, that decides the outcome.

MUMultiple speciesBmoderateT0not transferable Open access

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Equine Health

Sycamore and atypical myopathy: why not every horse on the same pasture falls ill

On affected pastures, clinically healthy horses also carried hypoglycin A in their blood: what the sycamore studies show, and what they do not show.

MUMultiple speciesBmoderateT1hypothesis only Open access

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Where the evidence comes from, and how far it carries

Evidence Transfer Matrix

For each biological system we record which species produced the cited data, and whether extrapolating to another species is defensible.

The count is of primary sources actually cited in each synthesis, by species: three dots from six sources, two from three, one from one. The dots measure how dense the evidence is, not how strong an effect is.
Biological system	Horse	Human	Rodent	Transferability
Inflammation	well documented	well documented	documented	T2limited target data
Microbiome	well documented	well documented	documented	T1hypothesis only
Connective tissue	well documented	well documented	documented	T2limited target data
Airways	well documented	sparse	sparse	T1hypothesis only

well documenteddocumentedsparseno source