A Wrentham family acquired a diabetic alert dog to help monitor a 9-year-old girl's Type 1 diabetes. The service dog, named Dexter, is trained to detect high or low blood sugar levels by scent. A ...

UPMC St. Margaret hospital nurse Randy Crim often is mistaken for a volunteer because of his 70-pound companion, a silver Labrador retriever named Linus. “When I walk into a patient’s room, they think ...

“I trust him and his nose more than anything else,” a North Carolina mother tells PEOPLE of her son’s diabetic alert dog A routine preschool pickup took an unexpected turn when Aubrie Lewis noticed ...

A 5-year-old boy with Type 1 diabetes was gifted a service dog from Diabetes Dogs of America. Easton wears technology to alert his parents when his glucose levels are too high or low. He now also has ...

CONCORD — For the first time in her life, Amelia Esteves soon won’t have her parents’ alarm clocks to rely on. The 17-year-old Northgate High School student, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in ...

When people’s blood sugar levels drop, the scent of their breath changes — a change detectable by dogs. However, a study presented at the American Diabetes Association annual meeting showed a mixed ...

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