Resources

Health Organizations

• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly American Dietetic Assoc.)

• American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists

• American Association of Diabetes Educators

• American College of Sports Medicine

• American Council of the Blind

• American Diabetes Association

• American Heart Association

• American Medical Association

• American Stroke Association

• Canadian Diabetes Association

• International Diabetes Federation

• 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 Integrative Health (NCCIH)

  • National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

  • National Eye Institute (NEI)

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

• US Surgeon General

• National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disease (NIDDK)

  1. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

  2. National Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Nutrition & Obesity

• American Society for Nutrition (publishes the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and The Journal of Nutrition)

• Calorie King

• Center for Science in the Public Interest (publishes Nutrition Action Health Letter)

• FitDay

• Make Your Calories Count (site of FDA, using Nutrition Facts Label)

• 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)

• Nutrition Data

• Obesity (site of the World Health Organization)

• Obesity Society (publishes Obesity)

• Overweight and Obesity (site of the CDC)

• USDA Food Composition Center

• USDA National Nutrient Database

Research & Info

• Healthfinder (A Service of the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Consumer oriented)

• Health Insurance Marketplace (Obamacare)

• Mayo Clinic

• Medicare

• MedlinePlus (A service of the US NIH and the National Library of Medicine)

• Medscape

• Merck Manuals (Information on diagnosis and therapy: Consumer and healthcare oriented)

• 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)

• WebMD (Consumer oriented)
  

Pharmaceutical & Medical Technology 

• Abbott Laboratories

• Abbott Diabetes Care

• AstraZeneca

• Bayer Contour

• Bayer Corporation

• Becton, Dickinson and Company

• Bristol-Myers Squibb

• Eli Lilly

• GlaxoSmithKline

• Johnson & Johnson

• Lifescan (Johnson & Johnson Company) OneTouch meters

• Medtronic

• Merck

• Novartis

• Novo Nordisk

• Pfizer

• Roche

• Roche ACCU-CHEK meters

• Sanofi

• Takeda

• US Diagnostics (Infinity, Maxima, Control, EasyGluco meters)

Miscellaneous

• American Medical ID

• Children with Diabetes

• DiabetesNet (and Diabetes Mall)

• Diabetes Daily

• Diabetes Forecast Magazine

• Diabetes Health

• Diabetes Monitor

• Diabetes Pilot (Software and Apps)

• Diabetes Self-management

• On Track Diabetes

• dLife

• Doctor Directory

• Foot.com

• Glycosmedia

• Health After 50 (affiliated with Scientific American)

• Health Central

• Joslin Diabetes Center (Affiliated with Harvard Medical School)

• Medic Alert Foundation

• Mendosa's Diabetes Resource (A medical writer with a wealth of information about diabetes)

• RxHope.com (US based, supplies medications to low-income consumers)

• Wellsphere