Nevada Diabetes Association for Children and Adults

Books about Diabetes Nevada Diabetes Resource Directory School Guidelines for children with Diabetes Diabetic Children Family Support Group Diabetes Links

Meetings Schedule Community Events

To improve the lives of children and adults affected by diabetes through prevention, education and service.

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Car Donation Program

Donate your old car, boat or RV and help raise much needed funds for the NDA Camps for Kids with Diabetes. In Northen Nevada or California call (866) 392-4483. or donate online and be sure you select the Nevada Diabetes Association on the pull down charity tab. In Southern Nevada call 702-279-8440.

Diet & Nutrition

Proper diet is one of the important elements in managing diabetes. Because one type of diet does not fit all we recommend that you review your meal plan need with a qualified dietician...

Insurance Information

If you are a resident of the State of Nevada and do not now have heath insurance and you have been denied health insurance because you have diabetes, you may now be eligible...
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Contact Us
NDACA
1005 Terminal Way, Suite 170
Reno, NV. 89502
Phone: 775-856-3839 or
800-379-3839
Fax 775.348-7591
ndaca@diabetesnv.org

NDACA
PO Box 750688
Las Vegas, NV 89136
Phone: 702-364-5604 or
1-800-379-3839

Calendar of Events

Campers 4 Campers Program! Raise Money for yourself and
your fellow campers to go to camps. It's easy just click here

Camp Buck reservations are filling up fast. Make your reservation today? CIT registrations for Camp Buck will close March 2^nd.

About all of our programs and services

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Free Diabetes Health Fair

March 10, 2010

630 pm to 9:00 pm

Elks Lodge

4100 West Charleston

1 block West of Valley View

North side of street

More info needed? Call 339-4332 or 349-7370

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Robert R. Banks Family Day Program

Children with Diabetes in the Public School System

a special program and updates on diabetes managemet for families with childen in the Washoe Country Schools System

(Parents you don't want to miss this program)

Free

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Mackay Auditorium - Renown

Reservation Call -856-3839

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2^nd Annual “Driving Fore Diabetes”

Sunday, May 23^rd 2010

Registration and Continental Breakfast 7:00 am

Lakeridge Golf Course, 1218 Golf Club Drive. Reno

Test your skills at this shotgun tournament

All proceeds raised help send local kids with diabetes to camp.

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Bowl-A-Luau

Saturday, June 5, 2009

11:00am to 1:00pm

Texas Star Lanes - Texas Station

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Diabetes News and Update

Study urges dentists to offer in-office diabetes screenings

Over 90 percent of people with periodontal (gum) disease are at risk for diabetes, according to findings published yesterday in the online edition of the Journal of Public Health Dentistry. read more

Genetic gift from mom, genetic burden from dad

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Will a gene bring healthful blessings or the curse of disease? It may depend on whether it is inherited from mom or dad, researchers reported on Wednesday.

A team at Iceland's Decode Genetics Inc found mutations in five disease-related genes that only take effect if inherited from a certain parent.

One, a new gene associated with diabetes, protects from the disease if inherited from the mother but raises the risk if inherited from the father. Three other diabetes genes also varied in their effects, but less so, depending on which parent it came from, the researchers reported in the journal Nature. read more

Diabetes Meter Mates With PC to Track Trends

This week's column was, in a sense, written in blood. It's a review of a new consumer medical device, and to test it, I had to prick my fingertips several times a day to produce a droplet of blood that the gadget could analyze. read more

Coffee and tea drinkers less likely to have diabetes

The December issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine released a study on the inverse relationship between coffee and tea consumption and diabetes risk, according to Modern Medicine. It seems that people who drink coffee or tea regularly have a significantly lowered risk. read more

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