People are laughing at videos of dogs who have consumed marijuana. But the stress and expense isn’t funnyBy Jennifer Graham Accidental ingestion of marijuana products on the rise for children and pets. Getty Images/Tetra images RFIn a waiting room over the weekend, I talked with a woman who’d spent much of the previous day at...
AUGUST 21ST, 2023POSTED BY SONIA FERNANDEZ-UCSB Dogs can be a faster, more precise, less expensive—not to mention friendlier—method of detecting COVID-19 than even our best current technology, a new review shows. A growing number of studies over the last two or so years has highlighted the power of dogs in detecting the stealthy virus and...
By Paul McClure August 15, 2023 Dogs are particularly good at detecting disease with their keen sense of smell Depositphotos It’s been estimated that dogs smell up to 10,000 times better than us. That’s in part because they have about 220 million scent receptors, whereas humans have a mere 5 million. But dogs also inhale...
Teaching a dog to sit or roll over? That’s easy. But what about that cute head tilt that you’ve never seen before, which happened while your phone was out of reach? Now you want a picture. But how do you get a dog to repeat an action it hasn’t been trained to perform? For dogs...
The study in Clinical Cancer Research describes the results of a Phase I clinical trial in which investigators tested a STING (STimulator of INterferon Genes) drug injected directly into the glioblastoma of five dogs that had previously been diagnosed with the cancer. Glioblastoma is the second-most common type of brain cancer in dogs. STING agonists can induce immunological...
By Maria Cohut Fact checked by Paula Field Because dogs have an extremely sensitive sense of smell, researchers are increasingly interested in finding out whether they can detect disease. One new study working with beagles has found that they can successfully “sniff out” lung cancer with extremely high accuracy. Recent data indicate that non-small cell lung cancer “is the second...
Michael Kidd, now 84 years old, fought in the Korean War. His young German shepherd Millie helps calm him down when things start to swirl, usually at night. Harry Stolberg—a 42-year-old former Marine who served in Bosnia, Liberia and Nigeria—has a chocolate Labrador named Rocky who wakes him up from his troubled dreams. And 31-year-old Phil Davanzo—who...
The levels of stress in dogs and their owners follow each other, according to a new study from Linköping University. The scientists believe that dogs mirror their owner’s stress level, rather than vice versa. The study has been published in the scientific journal Scientific Reports. Researchers at Linköping University have examined how stress levels in dogs are influenced by lifestyle factors and by the people that the dogs live with. Previous work has...
