This site contains forums about several diabetes-related topics. A chat room is also available and there are regularly scheduled chats. Membership to Delphi is required and is free.
This site is full of diabetes information. Sponsored by NetHealth.
The BEST web site for kids with diabetes! Here kids, and adults alike, can find out about diabetes in terms they can understand, not Doctorese. The material has been is written by kids for kids.
These two sites have information on diabetes care, diabetes news, the diabetes risk test and daily recipe for the diabetic diet.
Account of my experiences as a kidney donor for my wife, including descriptions of tests, surgery and recovery.
This site contains a wealth of information, with sections for donor and recipient information. I was interested, in particular, in the Living Kidney Donors' Experiences. It contains several stories told by donors. Very interesting reading.
This site is just one of many that provides information and resources on organ donation and transplantation issues. It was created by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
UNOS administers the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and the U.S. Scientific Registry on Organ Transplantation. Through the UNOS Organ Center, organ donors are matched to waiting recipients 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
This site contains lots of statistics, which I find fascinating, about survival rates, waiting lists, etc.
This page was last updated on 01/15/2003.