This news item from The Horse is about: The 2018 Kester News Hour medicine topics featured promising new innovations that will benefit horses in the future and practical clinical advice veterinarians can use today. The studies ranged from immunity and vaccination to equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) investigation and laminitis treatment. Held annually at the American Association of Equine Practitioners' (AAEP) Convention, "Kester" is a rapid-fire roundup of the leading equine veterinary research studies published that year. For the 2018 AAEP Convention, held Dec. 1-5, in San Francisco, California, Rob MacKay, BVSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, a professor of large animal internal medicine at the University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine, in Gainesville, selected and presented medicine-related studies for the third consecutive year.