It takes intense effort to teach service dogs the skills they need to help people with disabilities or alert them to ...

In short order, Teddy — a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 3-year-old yellow Lab — punched a wall button with his nose, yanked a ...

You've probably seen service dogs helping people with diabetes, anxiety, or seizures, but service dogs are now becoming more ...

The working pups won’t be out of a job any time soon, but they might get even better at their life-saving work.

In a 2022 survey of 3,000 U.S. adults, more than one-third of respondents reported that on most days, they feel “completely overwhelmed” by stress. At the same time, a growing body of research is ...

If you believe many of the TV news broadcasts and postings on YouTube then you also believe that dogs often help people spontaneously, and often heroically. There are many reports of dogs pulling ...

Scientists in the U.S. and Britain are looking at dogs for answers. Dogs have a remarkable sense of smell and scientists are studying whether our canine friends could help identify people infected ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In a 2022 survey of 3,000 U.S. adults, more than one-third of respondents reported that on most days, they feel “completely overwhelmed” by stress. At the same time, a growing body ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Assuming people’s daily lives are unlikely to get less stressful anytime soon, simple ...

Assuming people’s daily lives are unlikely to get less stressful anytime soon, simple and effective ways to mitigate these effects are needed. Now, a new study that we conducted with a team of ...