Customer Service
1660 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 549-1500
(800) 342-2383

The Association publishes educational materials for a variety of lay audiences and patients. Specialized periodicals for professionals are also available.

One Joslin Place
Boston, MA 02215
1 (800) 344-4501

Joslin Diabetes Center, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, is an international leader in diabetes research, treatment and patient and professional education. Call to request information, including brochures. You can also find this information on their web site.

P.O. Box NDIC
Bethesda, MD 20892
(301) 654-3327

The NIDDK distributes consumer information on many disorders through this clearinghouse. They have a very large amount of excellent material about diabetes.

This "Patient Information" section of the AAFP's site contains excellent overview articles including: "Foot Care for the Patient with Diabetes Mellitus," "Exercise and Diabetes," "Learning to Live with Diabetes," "Diabetic Neuropathy," "Diabetes Insipidus," "What To Do When You Have Gestational Diabetes," and "Getting Control of Diabetes."

This site calls itself the "on-line community for kids, families and adults with Type 1 diabetes." It is indeed comprehensive, and offers information on topics including: "Ask the Diabetes Team," "Diabetes Basics," "Products," "Food and Diet," "Diabetes Dictionary," and "Diabetes Camps" as well as places for both parents and kids to share their stories and experiences.

Written by Virginia Messina, M.P.H., R.D. and provided by the Vegetarian Resource Group. This site may be of interest to people who want to learn about a vegetarian diet and diabetes. Some of the topics addressed are: "Complications of Diabetes," "Four Goals of the Diabetic Diet," "Fiber," "Sugar," "Alcohol," "Exercise," "Diabetes in Pregnancy," "Diabetes in Children," and "Recipes."

You will find a variety of practical information on this site, featuring an online bookstore with cookbooks and recipes especially for people with diabetes, recent news, ways to find a pen-pal, a Community Bulletin Board, and links to other diabetes sites. Articles are on topics such as sexual intimacy, risk factors, prevention, healthy diet, and pregnancy.

This site discusses diabetic eye disease in terms of diagnosis, treatment, research, and prevention.

A listserv is a discussion of a particular topic, which may be mediated by a specific individual. Listservs are conducted entirely through email, although they may be archived in other parts of the Internet. When you subscribe you will receive a message that confirms your subscription. This message will also contain the information about how to unsubscribe -- this is vital, so store it in a good place on your mail server.

Leave the subject line blank and in the body of the message type:

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