Links to Additional Resources

Pediatrics

University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital-Endocrinology

http://www.uchicagokidshospital.org/specialties/endocrinology/
http://www.uchicagokidshospital.org/pdf/uch1000736.pdf

La Rabida
The Chicago Children's Diabetes Center

 

Organizations

American Diabetes Association
http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
http://www.jdrf.org/

NIH, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK)
http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/

European Association for the Study of Diabetes
http://www.easd.org/

International Diabetes Foundation
http://www.idf.org/home/

The North American Association for the Study of Obesity
http://www.naaso.org/

European Association for the Study of Obesity
http://www.easoobesity.org/index.htm

International Association for the Study of Obesity
http://www.iaso.org/

The American Association of Diabetes Educators
http://www.diabeteseducator.org/index.shtml

 

Information

University of Chicago-Clinical Trials
http://www.uchospitals.edu/clinical-trials/11113b.html

Center for Disease Control and Prevention-Diabetes
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/

Center for Disease Control and Prevention-Obesity
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/index.htm

U.S. Food and Drug Administration-Diabetes
http://www.fda.gov/diabetes/

NIH, NIDDK - National Diabetes Information Clearing House
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/

World Diabetes Foundation
http://www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org/

Children with Diabetes
http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/index_cwd.htm

The Diabetes Monitor
http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/

The Diabetes Mall
http://www.diabetesnet.com/

Information About Diabetes website
http://www.informationaboutdiabetes.com/index.htm

The Endocrine Society-Diabetes
http://www.endo-society.org/subject/Diabetes_Insulin/index.cfm

The Endocrine Society-Obesity
http://www.endo-society.org/subject/Obesity_Energy_Balance/index.cfm

The Hormone Foundation-Diabetes
http://www.hormone.org/public/diabetes.cfm

The Hormone Foundation-Obesity
http://www.hormone.org/public/obesity.cfm


 

Initiatives

U.S. Food and Drug Administration-Obesity
http://www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/obesity/

World Diabetes Day
http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/

Obesity in America
http://www.obesityinamerica.org/

ADA-Diabetes Risk Assessment (interactive)
https://www.diabetes.org/phd/profile/default.jsp

CDC-Nutrition Guide for Everyone
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition/nutrition_for_everyone/index.htm

'Small Step' Nutrition Guide for Kids (interactive)
http://www.smallstep.gov/kids/flash/index.html

The Obesity Action Coalition
http://www.obesityaction.org/home/index.php

Center for Disease Control and Prevention-Diabetes
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/

Center for Disease Control and Prevention-Diabetes
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/

A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Diabetes Initiative
http://diabetesnpo.im.wustl.edu/

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