Diabetes On The Web:
- Fit4D - An internet-based coaching service that provides health, exercise and nutrition experts specifically for people with diabetes who want to achieve and maintain healthy lifestyles.
- Children with Diabetes - A well done site, with lots of diabetes info pertaining to children. Contains a very good listing of Web resources.
- Take Control of Your Diabetes - TCOYD's Vision is to enable all people with diabetes and their loved ones to have full access to proper education and therapy.
- NIDDK -The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) conducts and supports basic and clinical research.
- ADA Youth Zone - All kinds of great stuff to help you stay in control of your diabetes. You'll also find fun games, tips and links.
- JDRF Kids Site - Lots of cool info!
- KidsRPumping - A modest site focusing exclusively on the issues of children using insulin pumps. Lots of info and inspiration.
- Insulin Pumper's Home Page - The only web site focused on insulin pumps. A diabetic community of over 2200 pumpers. You can chat in a number of different rooms
- Diabetics Unite! - A site with lots of good information about the research going on in the world of diabetes.
- On-Line Diabetes Resources - Rick Mendosa's excellent compilation of diabetes resources. Go here if you're especially looking for news and chat groups and mailing lists.
- Kids and Diabetes - A site for kids with diabetes by a kid with diabetes.
Medtronic Diabetes Pumpers' Pages:
- The Charles Ray III Diabetes Association provides medical devices and supplies to those unable to afford the cost.
- Emily's Page - A great site from a young Medtronic Diabetes pumper! One Person's Experience Using The CGMS™ system - A three-day trial of the CGMS system.
- Erica - A Canadian Butterfly - Erica Chafe's mother shares the challenges any parent of a child diagnosed with diabetes faces, and describes her path to discovering insulin pump therapy.
- Just 5 weeks old, Laura is the world's youngest known pumper
Other Fun Sites:
- Pump Girls - A singing, pumping phenomenon! These teens have a CD and a message: "kids with diabetes, take charge of your life!"
- IDEA 2000 -This is a group of diabetics who are going to climb the highest mountain in the western hemisphere, Cerro Aconcagua
Associations:
- The Charles Ray III Diabetes Association provides medical devices and supplies to those unable to afford the cost.
- American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) - Mostly info for its professional membership, with much on diabetes.
- American Diabetes Association (ADA) - This is ADA central, a must visit and explore.
- Juvenile Diabetes Foundation (JDF) - Good info on the disease and funding activity for a cure.
International Web Sites
- Clinica Diabetologica - Espaņol, Good general diabetes site, very knowledgeable about insulin pumps.