Trained dogs alert diabetes patients when blood sugar level runs low.
USA Today (10/14, Peters) reports that dogs are being employed to alert diabetes patients their blood sugar level is running low. Non-profit Dogs4Diabetics "is one of a handful of facilities that train such dogs," which signal patients "several minutes before any symptoms" or the blood tests tell them they are "entering the danger zone." D4D "puts its dogs through months of special scent-detection training," reports USA Today.
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