Therapy dogs can help boost the spirits of health care workers in the same way they brighten the moods of hospital patients, ...

Therapy dogs have long been known to brighten the moods of patients in hospitals. But could these furry four-legged friends ...

All handlers for this study were hospital employees who volunteered their time with seven certified therapy dogs to provide the animal-assisted intervention three times a week for eight weeks. The ...

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"Certified therapy dogs are accompanied by their handlers at the hospital. Together, the therapy dog team visits hospital rooms and interacts with patients in a supportive and calming way." ...

She follows in the paw prints of K9 Magic, who served as the department's therapy dog until her death last fall.

“(Therapy dogs) absorb the stress of the people they’re relieving ... provided animal-assisted therapy at the U.S. Olympic & ...

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The hospital has 11 different dogs to use that are certified through the West Michigan Therapy Dog Program. The dogs come for a visit once a month and rotate through the different hospital buildings.

Craig Dixon, a nurse in the ICU at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, pets therapy dogs with the Buckeye Paws Program. Dixon says a visit from the certified dog-handler teams not ...