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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Lilly and ICAN begin research to probe changes in human sweat, detectable by dogs, that signals low sugar in people with T1 #diabetes
Lilly supports a volunteer program where employees help reinforce the skills of assistance dogs to help people with #diabetes
A young black Lab named Pete sleeps at the feet of Dr. Dana Hardin, medical director and pediatric endocrinologist, at Eli Lilly and Company LLY +1.92% campus in Indianapolis. Though he looks at home, Pete is not Hardin's pet. He's an assistance dog in training, one of several at Lilly being socialized in real-life situations by employee volunteers under the guidance of the Indiana Canine Assistance Network (ICAN). Through ICAN ( www.ICANdog.org ), Pete is learning to detect hypoglycemia, a dangerously low level of blood glucose (sugar), in people with diabetes.
As a hypoglycemia alert dog, Pete is also part of research Lilly began in June to better understand why dogs are able to sense severe blood sugar events in their owners and to identify the compound or compounds they smell as part of those events.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/li...h-diabetes-and-severe-hypoglycemia-2012-07-30
Lilly supports a volunteer program where employees help reinforce the skills of assistance dogs to help people with #diabetes
A young black Lab named Pete sleeps at the feet of Dr. Dana Hardin, medical director and pediatric endocrinologist, at Eli Lilly and Company LLY +1.92% campus in Indianapolis. Though he looks at home, Pete is not Hardin's pet. He's an assistance dog in training, one of several at Lilly being socialized in real-life situations by employee volunteers under the guidance of the Indiana Canine Assistance Network (ICAN). Through ICAN ( www.ICANdog.org ), Pete is learning to detect hypoglycemia, a dangerously low level of blood glucose (sugar), in people with diabetes.
As a hypoglycemia alert dog, Pete is also part of research Lilly began in June to better understand why dogs are able to sense severe blood sugar events in their owners and to identify the compound or compounds they smell as part of those events.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/li...h-diabetes-and-severe-hypoglycemia-2012-07-30