Man's best friend: how veterinary research could save human lives

One Health holds that humans and the world around us thrive and suffer for the same reasons. As the idea grows more popular, health solutions developed for your dog might just end up helping you, too

Every two to three months, Elizabeth Roberts says goodbye to her kids and husband and loads up Scooby Doo, the family's three-legged, 12-year-old Labrador retriever, into the back of her SUV. She drives to the ferry from where they live on Martha's Vineyard and takes the 45-minute boat ride to the mainland.

From there, she has another six to seven hour drive to her parents' home outside Philadelphia, where she and Scooby Doo spend the night before driving to University of Pennsylvania in the morning. All this for an experimental osteosarcoma clinical trial that has extended Scooby Doo's life expectancy from one year to going on three years now.