The drug I chose to evaluate was humalog, a synthetic variation of regular insulin produced by Eli Lilly.  This insulin is an ultrafast-acting insulin with a very quick onset and short duration of action that IDDM patients can use just prior to meals.
 Using Netscape and Alta Vista as the search engine, I entered “humalog” and restricted the search to English language sites.  I obtained 131 hits.

                Interesting Sites
 

What I hoped to access on the Web was information suitable for health professionals to use in instructing themselves and patient counseling, and also any information for young adults, since they tend to be computer literate and IDDM tends to have an onset of presentation in the early teens.

As expected, one of the best sites was for the Eli Lilly Company, who developed Humalog for the U.S. market.
 
Eli Lilly Home Page for Humalog

This page has a link ( Health Care Professional  ) that is very useful to the health care professional.  In this page are: 1) the chemical structure of Humalog, 2) some dose-response curves for Regular and Humalog insulin, and 3) a good section on the clinical pharmacology of this drug.  This site would be veryuseful to a pharmacist but I doubt the average layperson would benefit from it.
 

I did find a separate site that was warning about the quick onset of this type of insulin and had a good graph showing the potential for hypoglycemic attacks with Humalog.   Hypoglycemia
 
                                                            
                        
 

There is even a site designated for people who use Humalog in insulin pumps.  Humalog & Pumps

General Audience

There were two good sites for a general audience that I found interesting.  The first was a general fact sheet for Humalog.
 Humalog Fact Sheet
They also cover other drugs, so this would be a good general reference spot.  Another good general link was to a Usenet FAQ site for diabetes mellitus treatment.   Usenet FAQ   There is also a reference for general nutritional information for diabetics.   Nutrition
 

For Children

For children, who may be more computer literate than some of their parents, a good diabetes online site might help them understand their disease better and feel more comfortable with it. A good one (which has nothing to do with Joe Camel) is called CamelsRFun.  Camels for Children  And, yes, they do have a camel!

Another site that is a chat forum for kids is  Virtual Nurse .  Another site that would require some adult explanation, since it is probably past most young kids level is  What Is Insulin  , which talks about what insulin is and how it works.

Lastly, there were some sites of general interest to people with diabetes ( Public Interest and  Patient Case Analysis ). The latter site is actually touting a program that correlates dietary intake with insulin regimens and is quite an entertaining tutorial for pharmacy students.

Lastly, there is a Web site that connects to other Web sites for diabetes.  For other diabetes sites
 

This was interesting to me to discover the variety of information out on the Web that is not available in print format.  Some of the graphics information is very good at driving points home about aspects of diabetes care and Humalog.  It is encouraging to see this information available for both the professional and the general public.  This is a good way to get information out to some people who might not have the interest to search the library for it.