Joslin Diabetes Center
View >- Overview of diabetes/genetics and diabetes
- Words and phrases for diabetes and treatment
- Online classes on diabetes management
- Professional education opportunities
American Diabetes Association
View >- Pre-diabetes signs and symptoms
- Types of diabetes and treatment options
- Food choices and carbohydrate counting
- Weight management and physical activities
- Depression and diabetes
- Peripheral vascular disease
- Food and activity counter
- Blood glucose log
- All resources available in Spanish and English
American Diabetes Association – Type 2 Diabetes Webcast
View >- Facts about care and treatment options, complications which can occur
- Focuses on ethnicity as factor for Type 2 diabetes
- Self testing on knowledge at end of Webcast
American Diabetes Association – Approaches to Treating Type 2 Diabetes Webcast
View >- Approaches to treatment of type 2 diabetes
- Survival tips/keys to treatment
- How diabetes can “get on our nerves
- Self testing on knowledge at end of Webcast
Medscape from Web MD Diabetes and Endocrinology
View >- Conference coverage on recent related conferences, Webcasts available
- Online medical journals
- Specialty specific homepages
- Medline access for health care professionals
- Must create sign on/password
MD Consult
View >- Health care providers can sign up for generic accounts and have access to hundreds of diabetes management materials including types, treatments, carbohydrate counting, diet, exercise, sexuality, complications
- Can individualize documents to your own institution
- Graphics and pictures included to provide visual cues to patients and family members
- Materials specific to the aging, pediatric, women, general population
My Discovery from Discovery Health
View >- Diabetes and Conditions Encyclopedia
- Topics include gestational diabetes, African Americans and diabetes, causes of diabetes, complications, what to do to prevent diabetes emergencies
- Hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, ketoacidosis
- Video on blood sugar crises, erectile dysfunction, affects of stress and smoking on diabetes
- Organ function and diabetes