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                                                                 Exhibit 3(ii).1

                                  MINIMED INC.
                               AMENDMENT TO BYLAWS
                             ADOPTED AUGUST 19, 1998



         Section 3.02. Number, Term of Office and Qualifications. The number of
         directors shall be eight (8). Directors need not be stockholders. Each
         of the Directors of the corporation shall hold office until his
         successor shall have been duly elected and shall qualify or until he
         shall resign or have been removed in the manner hereafter provided.