Editor’s Note: It’s Too Darn Hot

This has been the hottest summer on record for most of the US. In fact I have been inviting people to come down to Florida to cool off, so you knew it was only a matter of time before the intense heat would lead to a potential diabetes disaster. Find out what the heat did to one patient’s glucose control in this week’s Diabetes Disaster Averted.

As our patients get older do we need to keep them in perfect control? This week’s Case Study addresses this issue and when we need to pull back a little. Our Homerun Slides round out this week’s issue with a focus on some of the more intricate mechanisms of GLP-1 analogs.