Diabetes Action Network national board member Mike Freeman recently assembled a list of Web sites dealing with diabetes and blindness. Happy surfing!
• The National Federation of the Blind, which publishes Voice of the Diabetic, also maintains the Voice’s Web site, at www.nfb.org/voice.htm.
• The NFB’s Web site also collects the Voice’s most informative articles about diabetes and blindness, at www.nfb.org/diabetes/diabetesbook.htm.
• The American Diabetes Association Web site does not focus specifically on blindness, but provides voluminous information on all aspects of the disease, at www.diabetes.org.
• The Joslin Diabetes Center, a research institution affiliated with Harvard Medical School, provides basic information about diabetes, as well as cutting edge diabetes research, at www.joslin.org.
• The National Institutes of Health Web site maintains a National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse at http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov.
• An excellent source of diabetes information for children and parents is www.diabetes123.com.
• For those interested in the medical minutia, the American Association of Clinical Endocrino-logists is worth a look: www.aace.com.
• David Mendosa, a diabetic freelance writer, maintains an informative and idiosyncratic Web site about diabetes and other topics, at www.mendosa.com.
Do You Need to Get the VOICE on Cassette?
If you are currently receiving the Voice in print and having difficulty reading it, contact the Voice to receive it on cassette at no charge. Voice tapes REQUIRE the special tape player available free to the legally blind from Regional Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, which can be obtained by telephoning the National Library Service at: 1-800-424-8567. The Voice is not yet available in Braille or large print, but is available on the Internet, at: www.nfb.org/voice.htm.