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Hi there.  I came across this announcement, which I thought might 
be of interest to this Newsgroup.  The materials described in here 
are completely free.

Regards & Seasons Greetings!  {announcement copied below}


Bill


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Some free diabetes software is available completely 
without charge from:

                 http://www.2aida.org

The program comes in 2 forms;  [1] a downloadable 
version - called AIDA - for PCs, or Apple Macs running 
PC emulators like SoftWindows or VirtualPC, and [2] a 
Windows / Web-based version - called 'AIDA on-line' - 
that operates across the Internet and displays its results 
in a standard Web-browser window.  Both versions are 
totally free.

What does the program do?  Well, the software is a 
freeware educational diabetes simulator program.  That is 
to say it contains a simple model of glucose-insulin 
interaction in the human body, which is intended for 
simulating the effects on the blood glucose profile of 
changes in insulin and diet for a typical insulin-
dependent (type 1) diabetic patient.

AIDA is only intended to be used for educational / 
teaching / demonstration purposes.  Given the complexity 
of the human body it is not possible for a simple model, 
such as that contained within AIDA, to accurately predict 
an individual person's blood glucose profile.  Therefore 
the software cannot be used for therapy planning.  
Nevertheless a wide variety of individuals - including 
people with diabetes, their relatives and carers, & 
health-care professionals and students - do seem to 
have found AIDA of interest and use as a self-learning 
/ teaching tool.
 
Connected with this, to date, over 40,000 copies of 
the AIDA PC software have been downloaded without charge 
from the AIDA Website - http://www.2aida.org - and 
over 190,000 interactive Web-based diabetes simulations 
have been run for free using 'AIDA on-line' - available 
directly at:  http://www.2aida.org/online

Both AIDA and 'AIDA on-line' come with 40 case 
scenarios which can be simulated as standard.  Further 
case scenarios can be added by users.  The PC version of 
AIDA also contains a very simple knowledge based 
system which can identify problems in the case scenario 
data.  A list of suggestions which might correct some of 
these problems can also be generated.  This list is 
provided solely as a prompt to the sort of insulin 
dosage adjustments that users might like to try 
simulating with AIDA.

A Web-based tutorial about insulin dosage adjustment - 
which is integrated with 'AIDA on-line' - can also be 
accessed completely free-of-charge at:  
http://www.2aida.org/tutorial

Please note:  AIDA is a non-business development being 
made available via the Internet at a not-for-profit dot 
org (.org) Website as a non-commercial contribution to 
continuing diabetes education.  No income is generated 
from the number of visitors (or 'hits').  Rather the 
AIDA developers just would like to see as many people 
as possible benefiting from what the freeware software 
has to offer - hence this posting.



AIDA Website = http://www.2aida.org

'AIDA on-line' = http://www.2aida.org/online

Diabetes / Insulin Tutorial = http://www.2aida.org/tutorial