Online Resources for Diabetics

Below are our recommended links to various diabetes services,information, educational and medical resources.  We feel these websites will provide you with the best, safest, most up-to-date standards of care for diabetes.  Please review any medical recommendations with your doctor and medical care team.

	About.com (Diabetes) This website contains lots of general information about Type 2 and Type 1 diabetes.
	Diabetes on Amazon.com General diabetes books, diabetic diets, and type 2 diabetes titles for sale. Both new and used books and magazines are on this site.
	The Diabetes Monitor Monitoring diabetes happenings everywhere in cyberspace, and providing information, education and support for people with diabetes.
	Diabetes Mine Bills itself as “A gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes.” Addresses many aspects of living with diabetes - from food scales to pharmaceutical news and book reviews.
	How Stuff Works: Diabetes All aspects of diabetes education: causes, symptoms, treatments, diets, recipes, gestational diabetes, and various learning tools.
	Recipes For Your Diabetes Life Search from thousands of diabetes-friendly recipes that meet the dLife Nutritional Guidelines.
	Obesity Index Calculator Enter your height and weight and this web page calculates your BMI (Body Mass Index).
	Diabetes Self-Management A publisher of authoritative, reliable health information for the growing number of people with diabetes who want to know more about controlling and managing their diabetes. This website is full of medical related diabetes information.
	Blood Glucose Logbook If you monitor your blood glucose, this downloadable logbook by Lifescan will help you stay within your normal range (Adobe Reader required).
	Diabetes Network Contains the latest information and reviews of insulin pumps.
	tudiabetes.org A social network for diabetes support and education. This site is your link to other type 1 and type 2 diabetics who would like to connect with you and share advice and guidance.
	Centers for Disease Control and Pevention (CDC) Information for the public and professionals about diabetes, including research, statistics and educational publications.
	The Maine Diabetes Prevention and Control Program This program promotes: excellence in diabetes care Increased access to care. Links to everything diabetes in Maine.
	FDA Consumer Page Information on drugs and over the counter medication safety. Timely and easy-to-read articles covering all FDA activities and regulated products, buying medicines online, health fraud, warnings and enforcement, safety alerts, and reporting.
	The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse Part of the National Institutes of Health, NDIC was established in 1978 to increase knowledge and understanding about diabetes among patients, health care professionals, and the public.
	Fingertip Formulary® An easy-to-use tool that allows you to determine formulary drug status for health plans in your area. A how-to-site for reviewing your level of insurance plan coverage and/or Medicare medical coverage for all of your medications.

St. Joseph Diabetes Institute
of Behavioral Medicine
St. Joseph Healthcare Park - Building 1
900 Broadway
Bangor, ME 04401

Telephone: (207) 907-1187