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Guide dogs for people with diabetes?

The Newsroom

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Researchers from the University of Bristol in England say dogs can be trained to alert people with type one diabetes when their blood sugar falls dangerously low. In some cases the animals’ warnings were quicker to raise the alarm than sophisticated glucose-monitoring devices. Richard Hamilton reports. (Photo: Eddie the sniffer dog Credit: PA)

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