Heaves hit for Stirling
Tuesday, 29 July, 2008
Stirling Products [ASX: STI] has been granted an Australian patent or the treatment of heaves in horses with R-salbutamol.
The company has already been granted a patent for the same concept from South Africa, and Stirling representatives say they expect more grants to follow shortly.
A patent application for the inhaler device developed to help administer the drug, the Equinehaler, has also been lodged.
Heaves, also known as recurrent airway obstruction, affects an estimated 25-30 per cent of all horses in Europe and the US.
Stirling is also looking at using R-salbutamol - a highly purified version of salbutamol, better known as Ventolin - as a growth agent and as a treatment of obesity in dogs.
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