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DIABETES DIRECTORY

To be included in this directory the Web sites had to meet certain criteria. The sites must provide useful information for people who have diabetes, and they must originate from credible sources such as government agencies, diabetes organizations, medical institutions, health-care professionals, people with diabetes (for support groups), and reputable health-care companies. Before you start browsing, however, a word of caution is in order. The medical information that you find on the Web should only be used as a basis for further investigation and discussions with a knowledgeable health-care professional, never as the sole basis for decisions on the treatment or management of diabetes.

DIABETES ORGANIZATIONS

This site, which is dedicated to providing information to professional endocrinologists, also offers information that may be of use to laypeople, including American Association of Clinical Endocrinology clinical practice guidelines for diabetes and other endocrine disorders, a directory of association members, and links to other endocrinology resources on the World Wide Web.

American Association of Diabetes Educators

The official World Wide Web site of the AADE provides information to the public, health care professionals, and current members. For the public, there's information about the association and the role of the diabetes educator, as well as links to other diabetes resources, AADE position statements, membership information, and a catalog of publications and products. For members there's a calendar of continuing education programs, legislative updates, networking resources, Association news and other useful resources.

American Diabetes Association

As the headquarters for the ADA on the Internet, the ADA's center for online diabetes information provides diabetes news, updates on advocacy, legislative issues and research, access to ADA publications and an electronic bookstore, an online chapter directory, meeting and program information, educational opportunities, healthy recipes, and more. This is an excellent resource for professionals and consumers alike.

Canadian Diabetes Association

The CDA is the primary force for diabetes education, services, research and advocacy throughout Canada. On the CDA's Web site, you can get the latest diabetes news, branch information, and general information on diabetes and its complications. The site also includes a professional question-and-answer section and resources for diabetes-care professionals.

International Diabetic Athletes Association

The International Diabetic Athletes Association (IDAA) Web site provides membership and contact information, a directory of chapters around the world, a mail-order catalog, a list of upcoming events and a few diabetes links.

International Diabetes Federation

From the IDF Web site you can read international diabetes news, learn about the IDF and its mission, preview Federation publications, and find out about diabetes happenings around the world, including World Diabetes Day.

The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation

The JDF's Web site offers general information about diabetes, an online version of their magazine, Countdown, information about the JDF, a directory of JDF chapters, updates on diabetes research and grants, government relations, and information on fund-raising programs such as Walk for the Cure.

GENERAL DIABETES RESOURCES

This Web site is an "online community for kids, families, and adults with Type I diabetes." Resources include an online Diabetes Clinic, which offers diabetes basics, food and nutrition information, information about products you can order, and listings and information about diabetes camps. "Ask the Diabetes Team" allows you to pose questions to a team of experienced diabetes health-care professionals. Other resources include documents addressing the specific needs of parents, kids, and adults; a database of friends willing to correspond about diabetes; a message board; chat rooms; and much more.

Diabetes.com

The mission of Diabetes.com is "to provide information that supports both professional diabetes care and well-informed self-care." It accomplishes this by providing the latest news of interest to people with diabetes and thorough, well-written information on diet and exercise, avoiding complications, women's health and pregnancy, maintaining tight control, risk factors and prevention, sexual intimacy, and other topics. Other features include a question and answer section, a community bulletin board, and travel information.

Diabetes Home Page

The purpose of Diabetes Home Page is to provide people with diabetes as well as those without it with information about diabetes and to eliminate the misconceptions that surround the disease. The site contains over 70 diabetes related links and nearly 200 e-mail addresses of people who have diabetes. There's also The Virtual Diabetic, an interactive game that teaches people about day-to-day diabetes management, a diabetes search tool, and other useful features.

Diabetes Mall on DiabetesNet

Diabetes Mall combines research updates, diabetes news, and useful information on managing diabetes with an online catalog of diabetes products including books, software, pump accessories, videos, and more.

Diabetes Monitor

Diabetes Monitor has as its self-appointed mission the "monitoring of diabetes happenings everywhere in cyberspace." It accomplishes this by providing the most comprehensive database of diabetes resources on the Web. Features include the Diabetes Registry, an extensive list of Web pages covering various aspects of diabetes care that are subdivided by topic, as well as Diabetes On-line, a thorough index of diabetes resources, and Diabetes Mentor, a collection of diabetes handouts for people with diabetes and their families.

Diabetes Well

Diabetes Well was developed by the Pacific Medical Research Foundation, whose mission is to explore new clinical treatments for diabetes and its physical complications and to educate doctors, health-care professionals, and people with diabetes about how to manage and live successfully with it. Diabetes Well offers general information on diabetes and its management for both people with little previous knowledge and those with more experience, as well as resources for professionals.

The Foot & Ankle Institute of St. George

Located in Utah, the Foot & Ankle Institute provides specialized medical and surgical treatment for foot and ankle disorders. From the Institute's home page, you can gain access to the Center for Podiatric Information, which provides useful documents on foot care for people with diabetes and treatment and management of foot problems related to diabetes.

The Healing Handbook for Persons with Diabetes

Whether you've recently been diagnosed with diabetes or you've been managing it for a long time, The Healing Handbook is perhaps the best guide for people with diabetes on the Internet. Developed by health-care professionals from the Division of Diabetes at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, this guide provides easy-to-understand information on nearly all facets of diabetes, including what it is, how it develops, how to manage it, and how to prevent complications.

Mediconsult.com: Diabetes Information for the Well Informed

This well-organized, comprehensive Web site is an excellent resource for staying up to date on the latest developments in diabetes research and treatment and for communicating with others in the "virtual" diabetes community. It offers a Journal Club, which has expert reviews and analysis of recent research articles, and a Support Group, where visitors can post comments, ideas and questions related to diabetes on a public bulletin board. Other services include, Success Stories, Recommended Books, Conference Highlights, Drug Information, and Education Material.

Worldwide Diabetes Information, Education and Resources Web Site

The goal of the Worldwide Diabetes Information, Education and Resources Web Site is to increase diabetes awareness, education, and management by providing people with and without diabetes access to a centrally located information, education, and resource service.

GENERAL MEDICAL RESOURCES

A wealth of information for doctors and the public is available on the official AMA Web site, including access to AMA publications, a directory of national, state and local medical associations, a database of professional backgrounds of AMA-affiliated doctors, medical news, links to medical resources, and diabetes-specific Web pages. When you first sign on, you will need to register; however, registration is free.

Avicenna Online

This is a general medical site that provides well-organized links to an array of medical resources, high-quality clinical information including Outlines in Clinical Medicine, clinical trials information and free access to MEDLINE, a database of medical journal abstracts. Registration, which is free, is required.

HealthGate

HealthGate offers free MEDLINE and CancerLit searches, online reference guides for consumers on diseases, medical tests, pediatric illnesses, surgical procedures, drugs, vitamins and dietary supplements, pregnancy, sports injuries, and more. It also provides online publications on healthy eating and women's health, all for free. HealthGate's advanced features, including sophisticated medical literature searches, are accessible through a paid subscription.

Healthtouch

Healthtouch bills itself as a "one-stop source for health information and health services." Information and services provided include a medicine guide where you can find information about prescription or over-the-counter drugs, a Health Resource Directory and Health Information, which provides general educational documents on a wide variety of disorders, including diabetes.

Medscape

A general medical Web site for consumers and professionals offering an extensive library of peer-reviewed, full-text articles covering a wide variety of specialties, free access to MEDLINE, general medical publications, daily medical news, online Continuing Medical Education, patient information, and more. Registration is free.

PharmInfoNet

PharmInfoNet is a comprehensive online resource for drugs and the pharmaceutical industry. It includes DrugDB a database of drug information that you can browse by generic name or trade name.

WebPath: Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education

This electronic laboratory includes over 1800 images along with texts and tutorials that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease, including numerous images of diabetic and endocrine pathology. This Web site is sponsored by the University of Utah.

NUTRITION RESOURCES

Find a registered dietitian in your area, obtain information on the American Dietetic Association, view the tables of contents and abstracts for the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, read basic nutrition information and fact sheets and more at this Web site. Of special note is the Good Nutrition Reading List which has a bibliography of reliable nutrition information, including diabetic nutrition, and the Gateway to Nutrition, an extensive index of related health resources on the World Wide Web.

Medline Plus Diabetic Nutrition Resource

This Web site offers a comprehensive, well-organized index of links to nutrition resources on the World Wide Web.

Food and Nutrition Information Center

Sponsored by the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Nutrition Information Center is a comprehensive clearinghouse for information on food and nutrition. From this site you can visit resource lists and bibliographies on various nutrition topics, gain access to National Agricultural Library databases, link to numerous Internet resources on food and nutrition, review USDA dietary guidelines and food composition data, and much, much more.

Shape Up America! CYBERKitchen

This new, interactive Web site represents the online branch of former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's campaign to help Americans shape up and get healthy. This site allows users to design tailored meal plans based on their calculated fat limits, calorie limits and weight goals, as well as exercise levels. The site even includes healthy recipes and a tool to create your own shopping list when you plan your meal.

US GOVERNMENT WEB SITES

This outstanding resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was developed by the Division of Diabetes Translation, which is responsible for translating scientific findings into health promotion, disease prevention and treatment strategies. This growing site currently includes Diabetes At-a-Glance, and overview of the statistics on diabetes in the United States, a National Diabetes Fact Sheet, a bibliography with abstracts of diabetes articles from the CDC, a guide for primary care practitioners, a database of state-based diabetes control programs, and links to other diabetes resources. This site will be adding more consumer-oriented information in the future.

Food and Drug Administration

Here you can find information on the Food and Drug Administration's functions and activities, including new drug approvals and reviews.

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Information on diabetes, digestive diseases, endocrine diseases, hematologic diseases, kidney diseases, nutrition and obesity, and urologic diseases is available on the Web site for the NIDDK, one of the 24 institutes that make up the National Institutes of Health. Specific diabetes information includes a diabetes overview, diabetes statistics, news about ongoing clinical trials, information on the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and prevention of complications, a diabetes dictionary, and more.

U. S. Department of Health and Human Services

This home page of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides news and public affairs information, consumer resources, and links to HHS agencies on the Internet.

MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS

On the Web site for the Joslin Diabetes Center, you can find contact information for the center and its numerous affiliates, as well as a complete provider directory, legislative updates on diabetes-related issues, and a list of current clinical trials at the center. The site also has an Online Diabetes Library and a catalog of Joslin publications that you can order over the phone.

At this Web site, you can look over multimedia textbooks, teaching files, clinical guidelines, and assorted publications for professionals, as well as consumer resources, links, and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics information.

MEDICAL INDICES

Medical Care Information Resources: Diabetes Links

This is an index of diabetes resources on the Web, created by experts from the Health Sciences Library of Canada's McMaster University. From this page, you can also jump to other areas of the site which offer extensive, annotated links to resources about illness, general health, wellness, alternative medicine, education, and more.

Medical Matrix

The Medical Matrix Guide to Internet Resources offers one of the most comprehensive databases of "selected, ranked, peer-reviewed, annotated, continuously updated, full-text patient-care resources" on the Internet. Medical Matrix should be one of the first stops for any medical information search on the Web.

MedWeb: Biomedical Internet Resources

Sponsored by the Emory University Health Sciences Center Library, MedWeb offers over 8,000 links to medical resources on the Internet, which you can search using keywords, country or region.

Jonathan Tward's The Multimedia Medical Reference Library

This is a thorough, well-organized database of medical resources on the Internet. Categories include an index, pictures, video clips, and sound clips, links to online research journals, links to hospital home pages, and more. Free access to MEDLINE is offered, too.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Biosciences

A subset of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, this site provides an extensive selection of biomedical resources on the World Wide Web.

MEDICAL NEWS

This site contains bi-weekly articles selected from the Medical Tribune, a trade newspaper for doctors and researchers that covers research and medical news, findings and controversies.

Reuters Health Information Services

This is a daily health information service for professionals and consumers sponsored by Reuters. To gain access to full-text articles, it is necessary to buy a subscription.

Your Health Daily

This is a daily health news service, sponsored by The New York Times Syndicate, that contains general medical articles for professionals and laypeople.

This list was taken from an article in the JULY / AUGUST 1997 issue of Diabetes Self-Management written by Seth Torregiani, and editor in the Electronic Medical Services Division of Cliggott Communications, a medical publisher based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Updates to links made when necessary.

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