Diabetes journals are available for everyone from the layperson reading about the disease for the first time to Physicians and Specialists in the field. Most of the free diabetes journals and publications are found online. With the cost of distribution next to nothing, there is more available than ever before and websites that list diabetes related journals can be found easily. Most of the top journals about diabetes and the peer reviewed journals on diabetes will need subscriptions and some are not available to the general public. But those are likely in medical jargon that the average person wouldn’t understand anyway.
Some of the Better Free Medical Journals on Diabetes
Free diabetes journals or websites that give you access to the PDF version of the diabetes journals are:
- Canadian Journal of Diabetes
- Clinical Diabetes
- Diabetes and Metabolism Journal
- Diabetes Digest
- Diabetes Spectrum (one month old version free)
- International Journal of Diabetes and Metabolism
- International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries
- World Journal of Diabetes
- Journal of the Pancreas
Some Diabetes Medical Journals Are A Little More Technical But Available For Review Online
There are also many diabetes journals written for professionals in the field but available in abstract form online or on a delayed basis, where you can read older publications without having to pay the subscription fee. The Lancet is an example of an excellent journal that will give you access to years of published reports on a variety of different specialties all in one place. Their website allows you to browse articles that may have been part of one of the diabetes research journals, or even a summary or transcript of a seminar on the topic. The New England Journal of Medicine is a highly specialized journal covering a wide array of conditions, including diabetes. Journals of this caliber are generally by subscription, but probably not a good investment for the lay person as the material will be over your head. Nursing journals on diabetes, like the Journal of Diabetes Nursing , offer similar capabilities of browsing abstracts or summaries, but again these types of diabetes journals are not easy to understand for the average person.
With so much free information, there is no reason for the average patient to subscribe to one of the journals on diabetes. Just looking at the free information, along with what you can pick up in conversation will usually suffice. Natural and alternative medicine is an excellent topic for the patient to research on their own. These topics are usually not discussed by your doctor, and can often provide the best overall help for the patient to do on their own. Small changes guided with an expert on the topic of natural medicine can offer most patients better advice than many of the diabetes journals out there. Usually some combination of both will arm you with all the information you need.
