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Help Turn Occasional Shoppers into Loyal Customers by Investing in the Front End

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By tailoring your pharmacy to meet the needs of customers across both prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) products, you can transform your store into a long-term community destination for total health and wellness. Private-label brands allow you to deliver the same quality as larger name brands, often at a lower cost.

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Pharmacists Can Improve Insulin Management Through Counseling

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Simple techniques, such as color-coding or clearly labeling insulin pens and vials with a marker can help patients remember which insulin to use and when. Mealtime insulin must be taken close to eating, ranging from 30 minutes before to just after the meal, depending on the product.

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Healthy Diet Provides Health Benefits, Even Without Weight Loss

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Image Credit: sonyakamoz - stock.adobe.com "We have been conditioned to equate weight loss with health, and weight loss-resistant individuals are often labeled as failures,” Anat Yaskolka Meir, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow in the department of epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, said in a news release.

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Independent Pharmacy Innovation Spotlighted at McKesson ideaShare 2025

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McKesson ideaShare 2025 brought thousands of independent pharmacists, pharmacy owners, technicians, and industry leaders together in Nashville, Tennessee, shining a spotlight on innovation and advocacy in community pharmacy.

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Results Find SGLT2 Inhibitors Associated With Erythrocytosis

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2 One of the risks of SGLT2is has been an increase in hematocrit levels, ranging from 2.3% in clinical trials, according to a case series published in Endocrine Abstracts.

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Obesity Medication Use Remains Low Among Children | ADA 2025

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of YA with obesity were prescribed OMs—predominantly GLP-1s approved for adults but used off label for younger people. Despite the high prevalence of obesity among children and YA, OM utilization remains low,” wrote authors of the abstract. 1 In the final year of the analysis (2024), just 1.5% of adolescents and 5.7%

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Donanemab-Azbt Receives FDA Label Update With New Dosing for Alzheimer Disease

Pharmacy Times

The FDA has approved an updated label with a new recommended titration dosing schedule for donanemab-azbt (Kisunla; Eli Lilly and Company) for once-monthly amyloid-targeting therapy for adults that experience early symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD). million individuals in the United States aged 65 and older.