Gifted word learner dogs seem capable of eavesdropping about as well as 18-month-old toddlers, the study researchers say.

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics.

Dogs can understand that certain words refer to specific objects, according to a recent study, suggesting that they may understand words in a similar way to humans. It offers the first evidence of brain activity for this comprehension in a non-human animal ...

The shift is part of a government-wide effort to phase out the use of live animals in federally sponsored tests, studies and training.

Researchers at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond have induced heart attacks in dogs, surgically implanted pacemakers into them and trained them to run on treadmills, all in the name of studying heart health in humans. Some of the ...

Experiments and testing on cats, dogs and primates by the Department of Veterans Affairs must end by 2026 under newly enacted legislation that lawmakers highlighted during a House subcommittee hearing Tuesday. “I am proud to say that the Department of ...

A controversial experiment on dogs continues at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Ohio. The dogs are used in experiments that officials say could help veterans with ALS, paralysis and stroke cough, WJW-TV reported. A shipment of dogs was set to arrive ...

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon--a change that's based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is coming from within the scientific community as well as from activists, following a string of scandals involving inhumane living conditions.