As well as sniffing out disease, the dogs the charity train include medical alert assistance dogs who support people with ...

A dog's superior sense of smell is helping to detect cancer at its earliest stages. Researchers take blood plasma from cancer patients and place them into one of eight canisters for the pups to sniff ...

Dogs have a truly astonishing sense of smell that goes far beyond anything we could imagine. From picking up the scent of a potential mate miles away to uncovering an explosive, a dog's nose is always ...

UNIVERSITY CITY (WPVI) -- Penn Vet's Working Dog center is now training a new set of dogs to detect cancer. 2-year-old Ivey is learning to use her keen sense of smell to locate one scent among ...

CHAMPAIGN — People are beginning to realize that dogs share a lot more with humans than just their homes and habits. Some spontaneously occurring cancers in dogs are genetically very similar to those ...

Breast cancer survivor Breanna Bortner credits her dog with the early detection of her cancer. A young woman’s dog was the first to detect her deadly breast cancer. In June 2023, Breanna Bortner, then ...