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October is Health Literacy Month.  Pfizer's Clear Health Communication Initiative defines health literacy as "the ability to read, understand and act upon health information."  How can you become more health literate? 

Sugarstats.com (http://www.sugarstats.com/) is a new, interactive web site for people with diabetes. Users can create free, personal accounts which allow them track and monitor blood sugar levels and other statistics related to their diabetic condition. They can also give others passworded permission to access the account, such as doctors and other medical care providers, family and friends. Unlike pencil and paper logs, Sugarstats allows users to access and enter data from any internet-connected computer.

NYU Medical Center’s ADA-certified Diabetes Education Program has been relocated to the 1st floor of Schwartz Health Care Building, Room 103 from its former location on the 14th floor. Now located next door to the Blood Donor Center, the Diabetes Education Center shares this refurbished space with the Medical Center’s consumer health library, the Patient & Family Resource Center.

Always available in both English and Spanish, http://medlineplus.gov/, the premier consumer health information website, has added health information in 44 languages about selected health conditions.

Some of the internationally prominent, new languages that have been added include: French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. But there also is new health information (with English translation) in: Navajo, Samoan, Vietnamese, Polish, Arabic and Farsi, among others. All foreign languages in MedlinePlus are accompanied an English equivalent.