If you have ever had a dog affected by hemangiosarcoma, you know how horrible it is. Hemangiosarcoma is a cancer of cells ...

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(Left to right) Nicola Mason, Mary Beth Boland, and Antonia Rotolo of Penn Vet with Rex, the first dog treated on the metastatic osteosarcoma trial. For veterinarian and clinician scientist Nicola ...

Amid his time on Dancing With the Stars, the Australian wildlife photographer announced that his pug, Stella, is going through a health battle. “This is a tough one,” Robert wrote in an Oct. 12 ...

Dogs can detect everything from bombs to cancer with their sensitive noses. Here's what you need to know about whether dogs can sense pregnancy.

Startup SpotitEarly is pioneering an innovative early cancer screening test based on breath samples and powered by artificial intelligence and the strong scent detection of trained dogs. SpotitEarly ...

Dogs are famous for their incredible noses—but can they really detect cancer? Both countless real-life stories from dog owners and cutting-edge scientific research point to the same conclusion: the ...

This article was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors. We got our first dog when my oldest son was 10. A friend who was a teacher ...

A dog facing a daunting diagnosis had one last hope at UC Davis' veterinary hospital to turn things around. Lola, the golden retriever, was given a terminal cancer diagnosis with just a couple of ...

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