We humans share a lot of similarities with dogs, such as personal preferences, social behaviors, facial expressions, and 80 percent of our DNA. We also have many diseases in common, including epilepsy ...

Dogs have spent thousands of years adapting to human behavior, so it's no surprise they sometimes notice changes people miss. One of the most intriguing examples involves a seizure alert. Researchers ...

It was back in the early 1990s that people who studied dogs were surprised by a number of reports about dogs like Harley, a golden retriever owned by Victoria Doroshenko. Victoria has epilepsy, and ...

Working with medically trained service dogs is associated with a 31% reduction in seizures compared with usual care in treatment-resistant epilepsy, a new study showed. Investigators speculate that ...

At a recent adoption event, Sienna - a 3-year-old lab and pit bull mix - made a beeline for a man she’d never met and gently placed her paw on his leg. “She saw him, and she started pulling on the ...

A routine pet adoption event at a Virginia church took an extraordinary turn when one of the foster dogs instinctively reacted to an oncoming medical crisis in a stranger — and in doing so, rescued ...