{"id":542,"date":"2016-09-14T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/?p=542"},"modified":"2016-10-13T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:22:46","slug":"542","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/2016\/09\/14\/542\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Alert Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473861837853_2574\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473861837853_2575\">Vanessa Field from Bangor was our guest speaker recently and her talk on Medical Alert Assistance Dogs was extremely fascinating.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473861837853_2576\">\u00a0 <\/span>Dogs are trained to help people with life-threatening health conditions, giving them greater independence and above all saving their lives on a daily basis.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473861837853_2577\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong>The dogs are taught to identify the odour changes that are associated with life-threatening medical events. Currently the majority of Medical Alert Assistance dogs work with people with diabetes. Medical Detection Dogs uses\u00a0the amazing power of the dogs\u2019 nose to detect human diseases.\u00a0 Research is based on the dogs\u2019 ability to detect minute odour traces created by diseases.<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473861837853_2578\">\u00a0 <\/span>For further information on SI Bangor please contact our Secretary Vikki Williams \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:vikkijwilliams@gmail.com\">vikkijwilliams@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Field from Bangor was our guest speaker recently and her talk on Medical Alert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Medical Alert Dogs | News | Blog | Events | SI Bangor and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bangor and District : Blog &amp; News : Medical Alert Dogs : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bangor and District . 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