Know Your Condition: Helpful Websites
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The ASRS is the largest retinal organization in the world. It provides education about diseases relating to the retina and helps its members provide the best quality of care to patients. To achieve this mission, the ASRS holds a number of classes and meetings for its members to learn more.
Diabetes Information
Joslin Diabetes Center
Joslin Diabetes Center is a one-of-a-kind research and teaching institution with the mission of preventing, treating, and curing diabetes.
American Diabetes Association (ADA)
An organization completely devoted to preventing and curing diabetes and to improving the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
Taking Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD)
TCOYD educates and motivates people with diabetes to take a more active role in their condition and provides innovative and integrative continuing diabetes education to medical professionals caring for people with diabetes.
JDRF
JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes research.
Eyesight Information
Prevent Blindness America (PBA)
The PBA is the nation's leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to preventing blindness and saving sight.
American Foundation for the Blind
This foundation has spent nearly a century ensuring that individuals who are blind or visually impaired have access to the information, technology, education, and legal resources they need to live independent and productive lives.
EyeCare America
EyeCare America, a public service program of the Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, provides free eye exams and up to a year of eye care to eligible US citizens and legal residents within the continental US, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
Foundation Fighting Blindness
The goal of this foundation is to drive research that will provide preventions, treatments, and cures for people affected by several eye conditions that can lead to blindness.
Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind
This organization promotes the independence, equality, and self-reliance of people who are blind or visually impaired through rehabilitation training and other helpful services.
National Eye Institute
This institute was established by Congress in 1968 to protect and prolong the vision of the American people.
American Academy of Ophthalmology
The American Academy of Ophthalmology, the world's largest association of eye physicians and surgeons, has created EyeSmart®, the most trusted and medically accurate source for information about eye diseases, conditions, and injuries.