HW #3-Research Question

Research question: How do dogs benefit human health?

By using Mason’s ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, I was able to find an article related to my research question. The article, By improving pain treatment, therapy in dogs, research offers medical insight for humans, discusses various ways in which dogs can help doctors better understand human health. After surgery in both humans and dogs, doctors and vets commonly use ice or hot packs to reduce swelling. Researcher Ralph Millard discovered that in dogs there is no need to cold pack anything longer than 10 minutes because after 10 minutes there is no great change in temperature. Because cold and hot packing is a procedure used in humans as well, the 10-minute frame is is likely to apply to humans too. The article explains how researchers are also researching a common painkiller used in dogs, and the comparison in dosages between them and humans.

This article explains ways in which dogs can literally benefit human health, but there is another way too. Even just owning a dog can make a person that much happier, and a happy person makes for a healthy lifestyle. Dogs are great companions and it is good to know that they have the capability to benefit human health in so many different ways.

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A link to the article:

http://search.proquest.com.mutex.gmu.edu/careerhealth/docview/1081989745/13C2627F2A54D689345/1?accountid=14541

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