Guest Opinion. Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Animals helping others of their own species makes sense to perpetuate the species or help continue their own ...

A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...

One in 20 people will need some kind of tissue transplant in their lifetime, and increasingly surgeons are turning to animals for help. This is no ordinary lab mouse. Ideally, it would be ...

It wasn't looking good for Major. The terrier had been badly attacked by another dog, and his back leg was severely injured. To make matters worse, a record-breaking snowstorm had made it impossible ...

Pets mean a lot to their guardians and are widely believed to be good for human well-being, something called “the pet effect” (although the research on this is conflicting). One of the ways in which ...