Videos
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Links
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Diabetes Event Calendar (Indiana)
List of American Diabetes Association planned events for Indiana |
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Step Out for Diabetes Fundraiser (Denver, Colorado)
American Diabetes Association event information |
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Diabetes.org
Article on alert dogs on the American Diabetes Association website |
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NCBI Pubmed Study
Summary of a study done on canine responses to hypoglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes |
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Service dogs make more accurate blood sugar meters
by Jonathan Cannon News article from The Herald Democrat on diabetic alert dogs being used by two highschool students |
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The Dog's Sense of Smell
July 2005 published article by Julio E. Correa (Extension Animal Scientist, Associate Professor, Food and Animal Sciences, Alabama A&M University) This article is found on the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and covers the science behind dog's superior sense of smell |
Suggested Reading
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Seizure-Alert Dogs (Dog Heroes) A book by Margaret Fetty |
Dija, seen here with her trainer Julie Noyes, is a FEMA certified scent dog. Smell is a dog's primary sense and is said to be a thousand times more sensitive than that of humans. Canines are able to locate everything from forensic materials to disaster survivors because they have more than 220 million olfactory receptors compared to only 5 million in humans.
