DIABETES RESEARCH LINKS


The American Diabetes Association is a non-profit organization providing advocacy, information and research.


The Center for Disease Control Diabetes Link provides national statistics, diabetes facts, results of diabetes studies and other information.


Indian Health Services National Diabetes Program goal is to prevent or control diabetes among Native Americans. Educational resources are available from the IHS.


JoslinResearch.org is dedicated to providing Internet services to support the needs and activities of the research community at the Joslin Diabetes Center in addition to anyone interested in finding out about our research.


Medlineplus Health Information is a service of the National Library of Medicine. Includes research, diabetes management, gender and age group specific information.

MEDICAL & CLINICAL LINKS

-National Center for Biotechnology Information, established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

-The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC) is an information dissemination service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The NIDDK is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

-The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) conducts and supports research on many of the most serious diseases affecting public health. The Institute supports much of the clinical research on the diseases of internal medicine and related subspecialty fields, as well as many basic science disciplines.

-World Diabetes Day is the primary global awareness campaign for diabetes. It is celebrated each year on 14 November. The campaign is led by the International Diabetes Federation. In 2007, World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations world day, following the passage of the United Nations World Diabetes Day Resolution in December 2006.

-WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.