Links
Patient Portal
Information Links
- Thyroid
- www.thyroid.org - Website of the American Thyroid Association. Offers patient brochures about all different thyroid conditions as well as the latest news in the field of thyroidology.
- www.thyca.org - ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Inc. is a national non-profit organization of thyroid cancer survivors. This has useful information like low iodine recipes, patient information and more.
- www.checkyourneck.com
- General Endocrine
- http://www.hormone.org - The Hormone Foundation. An excellent website for all endocrine diseases. Information in other languages like Spanish available as well.
- http://www.aace.com - American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Offers resources on all endocrine disorders, including thyroid, diabetes, pituitary disorders and more.
- Diabetes
- As a practice we encourage our patients with Diabetes to enroll in an ADA certified diabetes education program. For our Howard County patients, we recommend Living With Diabetes program offered at Howard County General Hospital. (For information please contact 443-718-3000)
- http://www.diabetes.org - Information available here for diabetes education programs anywhere in the state of Maryland or DC
- Continuous glucose monitoring video
- http://www.jdrf.org/ - Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation website, Where you will find information for patients with Type 1 Diabetes
- www.childrenwithdiabetes.com - a website for patients with Type 1 Diabetes both adult and children, and parents of Type 1 Diabetes patients, Includes information chart on different Continuous Glucose Monitoring systems available, as well as other information
- Life For a Child - a program that aims to raise awareness of the plight of children with diabetes in the countries in which it is present and encourages governments to establish appropriate care to safeguard the future of children with diabetes by developing sustainable capacity to provide essential medical care for these children
- CGM Tools and Resources at Your Fingertips
- Calcium/Osteoporosis/Bone
- http://www.paget.org
- www.nof.org - National Osteoporosis Foundation website, offers patient information and support groups for those with osteoporosis
- TCOYD - Taking Control of Your Diabetes
- http://www.tcoyd.org - A not-for-profit diabetes education organization which aims to inform, motivate and empower participants to take control of their diabetes.
Recommended Reading
The Discovery of Insulin
Author: Michael Bliss, 1982/2007, University of Chicago Press
The discovery of insulin, and it's development as a life saving treatment for type 1 Diabetes, was a sentinel event in modern medicine. Prior to that discovery, the diagnosis of Type 1 or juvenile onset diabetes amounted to a death sentence. Michael Bliss's award winning account of the way that insulin was first isolated and used to treat people with type 1 diabetes contains many moving anecdotes about the first patients treated with insulin, and tells the story of the quirky research team that discovered and developed insulin as a life saving therapy, and the impact of that discovery on patients dying from diabetes. Anyone with type 1 Diabetes should read this book.
Diabesity: A Doctor and Her Patients on the Front Lines of the Diabetes-Obesity Epidemic
Author: Francine Kaufman MD, 2006
Explores the reasons for the explosion in the number of Americans afflicted with type 2 Diabetes, with a particular emphasis on dietary factors of the modern diet that promote weight gain, diabetes and obesity, and what we can do to change it.
Cheating Destiny: Living With Diabetes, America's Biggest Epidemic
Author: James Hirsch, 2006
A personal account from a journalist with type 1 diabetes whose son is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and an investigation of the American medical system's approach to diabetes.
All are available from Amazon.com