to Gotfredsen, Huang-Ti's famous textbook Nei Ching (Canon medicinae) contains a description of a disease which cannot be any other than diabetes mellitus. Hirsch says in 1883 that the earliest statements on diabetes mellitus are to be found in Sushruta's Ayur-Veda where Hessler's translation runs: 'Mellita urina laborantem quem medicus indicat, ille etiam incurabilis dictus est'. (When the doc...

In a Perspective, Jane Norman and Rebecca Reynolds discuss two randomized controlled trials aimed at testing behavioral interventions for women at risk of gestational diabetes.