'JDC Diabetes Gems' was started as a casual diabetes update on November 14th, 2008 on World Diabetes Day by P.Kesavadev Trust & Jothydev's Diabetes Research Center. It was started by Dr. Jothydev Kesavadev with Ms. Neethu Annie Simon as Editor and Dr. Arun Shankar and Ms.Sunitha Jothydev as Assistant Editors.
In September 2011, Gopika Krishnan joined the team as the scientific editor.

Drawing inspiration from the positive feedbacks from our readers across the globe, the newsletter team incorporated newer updates including 'Gems Picture of the Month', 'Recipe of the Month' etc. thus widening its global readership. Now if one issue is pending, we receive enquiries from hundreds of physicians which continue to be our motivation.

The newsletter is totally independent and continues to be a service to the professionals and the society at large. We have been keen to keep all the pages free of any forms of advertisement or promotion banners to provide you with unbiased scientific information. Due to higher chances of the newsletter emails landing up in junk, we request you to periodically check the website for our current issue.

Profound thanks to all our well wishers for the encouragement which enabled us to deliver all issues of the monthly newsletter till date with no breaks in between, for the past 8 years.

All the 100 issues are available on the website.(www.jothydev.com/newsletter)