News and Information on Diabetes

Websites containing quality and reliable health information can provide patients with valuable support and resources. You can follow the updates and news of these sites easily with RSS. This video describes how you can use RSS:



If you don't want to learn how to use RSS, PeRSSonalized Medicine, a free Webicina service, is created for you. Follow your favourite medical news, blogs, journals and social media sites in one click.



You can insert the term "diabetes" into the custom Pubmed feed box, and you will receive the latest publications focusing on diabetes automatically.

MedLine Plus

• Description: "MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news."
• Quality: Project of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

We collected the best sites focusing on diabetes-related support and information below. Please let us know if you have suggestions.

Diabetes Self-management

• Description: "Our magazine, Diabetes Self-Management, offers up-to-date, practical “how-to” information on nutrition, exercise, new drugs, medical advances, self-help, and the many other topics people need to know about to stay healthy. Over the last eight years alone, the articles and series in Diabetes Self-Management have captured 191 awards at the annual National Health Information Awards, more than any other diabetes magazine."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

DiabetesSupport

• Description: An online community where you can exchange knowledge and experiences with other people with diabetes.
• Quality: Supported by Diabetes UK.

DiaTribe

• Description: "diaTribe® is an e-newsletter for people eager to learn more about better managing diabetes for themselves, or perhaps for a loved one. "
• Quality: More information about the editors, contributors and the advisory board.

eMedicine.com

Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

• Description: "eMedicine is the most authoritative and accessible point of care medical reference available to physicians and other healthcare professionals on the Internet. The evidence-based content, updated regularly by nearly 10,000 attributed physician authors and editors, provides the latest practice guidelines in 59 medical specialties. The eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base contains articles on nearly 7,000 diseases and disorders and is richly illustrated with some 30,000 multimedia files."
• Quality: HONcode accredited.

Kosmix

• Description: "Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevent videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web..."
• Quality: The team of Kosmix.

Medical News Today

• Description: "The latest Diabetes News articles published daily. Includes news on type I diabetes (insulin-dependent) and type II diabetes (adult-onset) and prediabetes - treatment, medications, breakthroughs, causes and prevention options."
• Quality: The most comprehensive medical news site.

MedLine Plus

• Description: "MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news."
• Quality: Project of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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MedPage Today

• Description: "MedPage Today is the only service for physicians that provides a clinical perspective on the breaking medical news that their patients are reading. Co-developed by MedPage Today and The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education, each article alerts clinicians to breaking medical news, with summaries and actionable information enabling them to better understand the implications."
• Quality: Physicians and other healthcare professionals may also receive Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits at no cost by completing these educational programs.

MedWorm

• Description: "MedWorm is a medical RSS feed provider as well as a search engine built on data collected from RSS feeds. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it is a technology used to simply publish and gather details of the very latest information on the internet."
• Quality: MedWorm was built and is owned by Frankie Dolan, a UK based IT developer.

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

• Description: Information for the public and professionals about diabetes, including research, statistics, and educational publications.
• Quality: Supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse

• Description: 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."
• Quality: The NDIC is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health.

ParentingDiabeticKids.com

• Description: "As much as they’d like to, most people just don’t “get” what it’s like to parent children with diabetes. The reality of what we live day-to-day is something that can only be completely understood by other parents who shuffle to bedsides at all hours of the night and know that the difference between a tsp. and a Tbsp. is much more than it seems."
• Quality: The authors are Jeff and Natalie Kolok.

Reality Check

• Description: "The Reality Check website is managed by The Type 1 Diabetes Network Inc., a non-profit organisation run by a small team of dedicated volunteers, all of whom have Type 1 diabetes themselves. "
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Finally, TuDiabetes mentions some resources you can contact in the U.S. for assistance if you cannot afford your prescriptions.

Diabetes Helpline

• Description: "The Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation’s Toll-free Helpline serves over 1,200 individuals each year, answering a wide array of questions regarding diabetes self-management."
• Quality: Courtesy of Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation