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, ...

Veterans’ mental health is in epidemic mode, and each day we do not act to mitigate this crisis, is another day more than 20 American heroes commit suicide. This is no exaggeration. Studies indicate ...

Dogs possess “Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Indolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the virtues of Man, without his Vices.” That prescient poem (just the beginning) from 1808 was ...

“Lean on me / When you’re not strong / And I’ll be your friend / I’ll help you carry your Frisbee.” – apologies to Bill Withers I was intrigued by a recent article by Margret Grebowicz, a philosophy ...

A prevailing myth in America lies in the widespread belief that Uncle Sam takes care of everything for veterans. For healthcare and other needs the government covers all the costs, right? Not true.

I first met Joe when he was six years old, having spent his entire life attached by a heavy logging chain to a hollowed-out air conditioning unit in a backyard in Virginia. His surroundings more ...

A recent study by Japanese researchers observing that dogs cry happy tears when reuniting with their guardians should surprise no one. Science long ago proved that dogs, like all animals, experience a ...

On a sweltering day in Georgia last month, a police K9 named for the state she worked in died on the job. A deputy reportedly left her in a patrol car for “an unacceptable amount of time.” The air ...