Growing up with a dog isn't just a joy. It could actually help your kid's health. A new study reveals why dogs may truly be a ...

Ever since the first friendly wolves began gathering around human campfires tens of thousands of years ago, dogs and people ...

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Dog breeds that are especially vulnerable include various types of terriers, boxers and bulldogs; in cats, it’s Persians, ...

Dogs are proving to be more than just our best friends, with a new study finding that we have important proteins in common ...

A rare breed of hunting dogs known for its forked nose, the Turkish Pointer, might just help scientists better understand why human babies are sometimes born with facial clefts.

Bender hopes her study will help people understand dogs even better, particularly those animals that work in roles vital to public safety such as search-and-rescue, police, and service dogs.

"Dogs are good sentinels for human infections," Sykes, a University of California, Davis, professor, told USA TODAY. "They can help us understand not only the epidemiology of the disease ...

Study Knowing when and where dogs got sick with Valley fever can help pinpoint the geographical areas where humans might also contract the disease, according to a paper recently published in The ...

Humans and dogs hang out a lot ... is that diagnostic testing is already done,” she said. While this could help public health researchers in places where Valley fever has already taken root ...