Diabetes Education and Research Center
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA
Diabetes Online Resources
Health Organizations:
- American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
- American Association of Diabetes Educators
- American Council of the Blind
- American Diabetes Association
- American Dietetic Association
- American Heart Association
- American Medical Association
- American Stroke Association
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- Diabetes Exercise and Sports Association
- International Diabetes Federation
- International Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- US Centers for Disease Control - Diabetes
- US Food and Drug Administration
- US National Health Information Center
- US National Kidney Foundation
- US National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
- National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
- National Eye Institute (NEI)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disease (NIDDK)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
Diabetes Medications, Meters, and other Tools:
- Abbott Laboratories Precision, Freestyle meters, Navigator CMS, OmniPod pump
- Bayer Contour, Breeze, A1CNow meters
- GlaxoSmithKline Avandia
- BodyTel Scientific GlucoTel meter
- Johnson & Johnson LifeScan OneTouch meters
- Roche Diagnostics ACCU-CHEK meters
- US Diagnostics Infinity, Maxima, Control, EasyGluco meters
Nutrition and Obesity Sites:
- American Society for Nutrition publishes the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and The Journal of Nutrition
- Center for Science in the Public Interest publishes Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Cyberdiet
- Make Your Calories Count site of the FDA
- MedlinePlus: Obesity site of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the NIH
- Minnesota Obesity Center funded by the NIH
- Nature.com: Obesity publishes the International Journal of Obesity
- Obesity site of the World Health Organization
- Obesity Society publishes Obesity
- Overweight and Obesity site of the CDC
- Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity
- Weight Loss and Control site of the NIDDK
Pharmaceutical and Medical Technology Companies:
- Abbott
- AstraZeneca
- Bayer Corporation
- Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Eli Lilly and Company
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Johnson & Johnson
- Lifescan (Johnson & Johnson Company)
- Medtronic
- Merck
- MiniMed division of Medtronic
- Novartis
- Novo Nordisk
- Pfizer
- Roche
- Sanofi-aventis
- Schering-Plough
- Takeda
Research and Information Sites:
- ClinicalTrials.com
- Healthfinder A Service of the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (Consumer oriented)
- Mayo Clinic (Consumer oriented)
- Medicare
- MedlinePlus A service of the US NIH and the National Library of Medicine
- Medscape Medical News (Healthcare oriented)
- Merck Manuals Information on diagnosis and therapy (Consumer and healthcare oriented)
- PhRMA.org New medicines in development
- PubMed A service of the US NIH and the National Library of Medicine (Limited access to articles, extensive database)
- PubMed Central A service of the NIH and the National Library of Medicine (Open access to articles, limited database)
- RxList Drug Index
- SeniorHealth A Service of the US NIH, National Library of Medicine, and the National Institute on Aging
- Thomas US Congress Legislative Information
- WebMD (Consumer oriented)
Miscellaneous:
- Children with Diabetes
- DiabetesNet and Diabetes Mall
- Diabetes Monitor
- Diabetes Self-management
- dLife
- Doctor Directory
- Foot.com
- Health Central
- Johns Hopkins Health Alerts
- Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliated with Harvard Medical School
- Mendosa's Diabetes Resource A medical writer with a wealth of information about diabetes
- Medpedia
- RxHope.com US based, supplies medications to low-income consumers
- Wellsphere