Our Royal Patron, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, was among the first in the world to see some of our COVID-19 detection dogs in training demonstrate how they are learning to detect the virus this week. Her Royal Highness was greeted on arrival by some of our Bio Detection Dogs and accompanied by our CEO, Claire Guest, […]
Six canine faces look out at the camera. You would be forgiven for assuming they are modelling pet products – but, no, these animals are the first team to be trained by Medical Detection Dogs (MDD) to detect COVID 19. The percentage of a dog’s brain that is devoted to analysing odours is 40 times […]
Medical Detection Dogs have proved that dogs can detect #Parkinsons, #malaria, #cancer . They are now training them to join the fight against #Coronavirus. Together with their collaborators London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Graduate Studies and Durham University they believe they can make this happen, and if you can support this work please […]
Bio-Detection Dog Kiwi searches for prostate cancer. She is one of the amazing dogs from Medical Detection Dogs […]
We already know what an amazing sense of smell dogs have and how it protects us on a daily basis. Dogs are used extensively to sniff out explosives, illegal drugs and other contraband. Thanks to the pioneering work of Medical Detection Dogs, a charity set up in 2008 by Dr Claire Guest and of which I […]
Over the last 10 years, since I founded the charity Medical Detection Dogs, I have seen for myself what things these amazing dogs are able to do for human beings. Even before that, I was aware of the incredible benefits dogs could bring. When I qualified as a behavioural psychologist at Swansea and Warwick Universities, […]