Links to Government Sites about Diabetes

Diabetes Caucus members in the U.S. House of Representatives are listed on the Web site of Congresswoman Diana DeGette. Is the name of your representative here or not?

The U.S. National Library of Medicine, in Bethesda, MD, the world's largest medical library, offers MEDLINEplus for anyone with a medical question. The library has selected and categorized about 100 of the best links on diabetes, mostly from government sites.

Tthe California Diabetes Control Program is designed to let people know about activities of the DCP. Of the 33 million residents of california, about 2 million people have diabetes.

The FDA has a Frequently Asked Questions page about Importing Beef Insulin for Personal Use.

ClinicalTrials.gov is sponsored by The U.S. National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine, to provide patients, family members, and members of the public current information about clinical research studies.

"The New Food Label: Coping with Diabetes"

Veterans Health Administration Diabetes Program has several basic files of interest to veterans with diabetes. The

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is the site for several important government documents on diabetes. If you are looking for definitions of terms related to diabetes, look at this site's Diabetes Dictionary. Here are statistics and reports on diabetic eye disease, diabetic neuropathy, end-stage renal disease, hypoglycemia, and other areas. Here too are links to the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse and the National Diabetes Education Program. Still looking for more?A 733-page report on "Diabetes in America" (second edition) is available.

The Indian Health Service's "Patient Education Protocols" includes one for diabetes.

The CDC Diabetes home page comes from the Division of Diabetes Translation, a division of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The site includes the National Diabetes Fact Sheet, information on state-based diabetes control programs, and abstracts of academic and scientific articles on diabetes by authors affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Did you know that the IDDM1 gene maps to chromosome 6? You can find that out on the Gene Map of the Human Genome, which is now on-line from The National Center for Biotechnical Information of the National Institutes of Health. The Human Genome Project is expected to produce a sequence of DNA representing the functional blueprint and evolutionary history of the human species. If you are interested in the IDDM1 gene, these are some Web pages to study.

The federal government's new Healthfinder Web site provides links to the wealth of health-related information on the web published by the U.S. Government. Or you can search an extensive list of government Web resources on diabetes and of some organizations with the direct link www.healthfinder.gov/htmlgen/HFKeyword.cfm?Keyword=DIABETES

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"Americans With Disabilities Act Information on the Web" is the central U.S. government site for information on this law. This "other ADA," unlike the American Diabetes Association, has existed only since 1990, and not everyone is aware that it covers individuals with diabetes.

The "Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee" includes representatives from all federal departments and agencies whose programs involve health functions and responsibilities relevant to diabetes and its complications. The DMICC coordinates research activities of the National Institutes of Health and those activities of other federal programs related to diabetes and its complications, contributes to ensuring the adequacy and soundness of these activities, and provides a forum for communication and exchange of information necessary to maintain coordination of these activities.

The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is the first nationwide research study designed to find out whether type 2 diabetes can be prevented through diet and exercise or medication.

The Indian Health Service Diabetes Program, headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is working to develop, document, and sustain a public health effort to prevent and control diabetes in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. The Web site includes headquarters and regional contact information.

The Diabetes Programme of the Division of Noncommunicable Diseases of the World Health Organization is responsible for providing to WHO's 190 member countries advice on appropriate policies and strategies for monitoring, prevention, and control of diabetes. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Programme publishes the World Diabetes newsletter.