Medical Detection Dogs(Registration Number : 1124533)•
Birmingham Running Festival Half - May
Date: 11th May 2025
Minimum Age: 17
Park Road, Sutton Coldfield, B73 6BT
Join us for a unique opportunity to run a 5k, 10k or Half Marathon around the beautiful Sutton Park, a 2,400 acre National Nature Reserve in Birmingham.
Each Mile will be accurately marked out and we have plenty of helpers to keep you quite literally on track and encourage you on your way to the finish. Included in your entry fee is a themed medal, water and post race goodies. Come and enjoy the day with us; we hope to see you there!
World-leading charity, Medical Detection Dogs, trains dogs to save lives using their amazing sense of smell.
It does this with Medical Alert Assistance Dogs and Bio Detection Dogs, both of which can be trained to detect even the tiniest trace of the smell caused by a medical condition.
Medical Alert Assistance Dogs give a few minutes warning to people with complex health conditions when they are in danger of having a potentially life-threatening medical event, so they can take the necessary action and prevent injury and hospital admission. Conditions such as PoTS, Addison’s disease, Type 1 diabetes and non-epileptic seizures are among those that the dogs can be trained to detect and alert well before their human partner is aware that an episode is about to occur.
Bio Detection Dogs are trained to find even the tiniest smells associated with diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s, UTIs and Pseudomonas.
This pioneering work could help scientists and medics develop faster, cheaper, non-invasive methods of diagnosis that could impact upon thousands of lives.
Medical Detection Dogs rely on the public’s generosity and goodwill. Find out more visit www.medicaldetectiondogs.org.uk