When my daughter was just a toddler, I remember hearing a same sound emanating from the living room one night while I was making dinner. Rushing in, I found her on the floor with our dog, her chubby ...

May is a 2025 Everyday Kindness Heroes semifinalist for her work as a pet therapy volunteer at Columbus-area hospitals and ...

"My dog being the most patient foster brother for two minutes straight," the onscreen text read, perfectly describing what ...

THE BRONX -- Local children's hospitals are turning to special employees to help make patients' experiences a little less scary. Therapy dogs roam around hospitals providing comfort and support to ...

CASA GRANDE — The Therapy Dog Program at Casa Grande Regional Medical Center has grown considerably since it was initiated in March 2005, when a 12-year-old Shetland sheepdog named Makenzi, owned by ...

A study from researchers at Johns Hopkins who worried that therapy dogs might be contributing to the spread of MRSA and other harmful bacteria showed that, in fact, they were doing just that. The ...

University of Pennsylvania veterinary school tests coronavirus patient samples. Dogs have been trained to effectively sniff out an array of complexities from cancer to blood sugar levels in diabetics, ...

This week the hospital in Mission Viejo welcomed its newest resident companion dog, Haines, as a full-time employee.

MID-CITY — The Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital welcomed approximately 15 canines and their human companions into its wards for the first time Tuesday to spread holiday cheer ...