Ms. Dorothea M. Rourke RD
Dietitian-Nutritionist
192 PIPER RD ASHBY MA, 01431About
Dr. Dorothea Rourke practices Nutritional Medicine in ASHBY, MA. Dr. Rourke has received an education on and advises people on matters of food and nutrition, considering how they both impact health. Nutritionists? help patients choose the right things to eat, help them plan menus, and advise them on the health effects of certain foods. Nutritionists assess a patients current dietary habits and needs, educate them on healthy eating habits, follow up to ensure the menus are working, and write reports that document a patients progress.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Clinical, haematological and biochemical findings in foals with neonatal Equine herpesvirus-1 infection compared with septic and premature foals.
- Clinical, pathologic, immunohistochemical, and virologic findings of eastern equine encephalomyelitis in two horses.
- Pulmonary vasculotropic EHV-1 infection in equids.
- Evidence for transmission of Halicephalobus deletrix (H gingivalis) from dam to foal.
- Endothelin-1 and control of blood flow distribution in the lung.
- Extravascular lung water in the exercising horse.
- Polyneuropathy as a complication of disulfiram therapy of alcoholism.
- Congenital cutaneous, oral, and periarticular hemangiosarcoma in a 9-day-old Rocky Mountain horse.
- Encephalomyelitis from West Nile flavivirus in 3 alpacas.
- Congenital cystic polypoid rectal hamartoma in a newborn foal.
- Retrospective study of dystocia in mares at a referral hospital.
- Hepatic encephalopathy in a pregnant mare: identification of histopathological changes in the brain of a mare and fetus.
- Bacteremia in equine neonatal diarrhea: a retrospective study (1990-2007).
- Comparison of the Accu-Chek Aviva point-of-care glucometer with blood gas and laboratory methods of analysis of glucose measurement in equine emergency patients.
- Prospective evaluation of coagulation in critically ill neonatal foals.
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