Agency Discourse Memo

Memo

To: English 1311 Students 

From: Emily Taggart 

Date: 9/7/10

Re: American Diabetes Association

American Diabetes Association is an organization created to prevent, educate, and find a cure for the disease, Diabetes. This organization provides education, promotes awareness and is the voice for all Diabetics. There are three lead doctors contributing to the advancement of treatments and possible cures for Diabetes.

The ADA conducts different forms of research such as: 

- Genetics

- Islet Cell Biology 

- Immunology

- Diabetes Education 

- Behavioral Research 

- “Donor-given”

The 2007 National Diabetes Fact Sheet is the most recent statistics of Diabetes activity. These are some of the statistics given from the American Diabetes Association website taken from the National Diabetes Fact Sheet.

Total: 23.6 million children and adults in the United States—7.8% of the population—have diabetes.

Diagnosed: 17.9 million people

Undiagnosed: 5.7 million people

Pre-diabetes: 57 million people

New Cases: 1.6 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed in people aged 20 years and older each year.

Total prevalence of diabetes Under 20 years of age

- 186,300, or 0.22% of all people in this age group have diabetes

- About 2 million adolescents aged 12-19 have pre-diabetes

Age 20 years or older

- 23.5 million, or 10.7% of all people in this age group have diabetes

The American Diabetes Research Association’s website provides their latest research information. Their latest posting is “Fuzzy Logic” May Aid Artificial Pancreas Efforts by Eran Atlas and Colleagues. The association has research projects from artificial organs to healthier eating habits, thyroid health and glucose control.

The association has their very own magazine, the Forefront. The magazine provides information on Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes research going on throughout the nation. The issue from the Summer/Fall issue highlights such issues as the recently discovered autoantigen in Type 1 Diabetes and provides all the information the association knows.

My ethics topic for the semester is Diabetes and Stem Cell Research. The American Diabetes Association provides all writings and documents from the events containing stem cell research. One article provided on the website is “Judge Blocks Embryonic Stem-Cell Research Funding” by Brent Kendall Wall Street Journal Online August 23, 2010.

The website also provides Diabetes friendly recipes, healthy activities and ways to better lives through fitness. The American Diabetes Association provides basic information on complications, treatment and care. The association wants people to feel comfortable living with or around Diabetes.

The American Diabetes Association provides a decent amount of information to the public and really does its job. The association provides any information that a diabetic or anyone else would question about. The American Diabetes Association encourages everyone to be informed and educated in this disease.