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International Society of Behavioural Medicine
http://www.isbm.miami.edu/
Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the development
and integration of sociocultural psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical knowledge
relevant to health and illness and the application of this knowledge to disease
prevention, health promotion, etiology, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.
The International Society of Behavioral Medicine (ISBM) is a federation of
national societies, whose goal is to serve the needs of all health-related
disciplines concerned with issues relevant to behavioral medicine. Each national
society includes both biomedical and behavioral scientists.
(U.S.) Society of Behavioral Medicine
http://www.sbm.org
The Society of Behavioral Medicine is a multidisciplinary organization of
clinicians, educators, and scientists dedicated to promoting the study of
the interactions of behavior with biology and the environment, and the application
of that knowledge to improve the health and well being of individuals, families,
communities and populations.
CME on Diabetes Australia
http://cmeondiabetes.com.au/
CMEonDiabetes is a website built to transmit top-level CME conferences (slides
with voice-over) given by international experts in endocrinology, prediabetes,
the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes: epidemiology, pathophysiology
and notably insulin resistance, prevention and management: lifestyle and behaviour
and pharmacologic treatment. This site also offers conference reports and
key study results updated daily, and represents a unique platform for the
exchange of medical information on diabetes. The principal themes presented
are Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes.
Cochrane Behavioral Medicine Field
http://www.cochranebehavmed.org
A new Cochrane Behavioral Medicine Field was established within The Cochrane
Collaboration in February by Dr. Karina W. Davidson of Columbia University
in collaboration with many colleagues. The Cochrane Collaboration (www.cochrane.org)
is an international organization that has conducted and disseminated systematic
reviews of health interventions for more than 10 years. The Behavioral Medicine
Field focuses on "interventions that improve health outcomes through
behavioral mechanisms alone or in combination with other therapies"1.
Dr. Kimberlee J. Trudeau is the Field Administrator, and Ms. Louise Falzon
is the Field Trials Search Coordinator.
The objective of this Field is to increase the access to the evidence-base
in behavioral medicine as well as to create increased expertise in the use
of systematic review methodology.

