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It’s that time of the year again where we all feed our faces and start to dread stepping back on the scale. You want to lose the weight but you just can’t stop eating. You keep telling yourself you will start your diet Monday or after the holidays. Not only is all of the food you’re ingesting adding numbers to the scale, but it’s also putting you at an increased risk of developing diseases such as congestive heart disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and various cancers. Here is some information that may help you keep the weight off and start shedding some pounds.

In a letter to the new power structure in Washington, D.C., the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations (NASPA) have detailed steps necessary to leverage pharmacy patient care and prevent higher costs that result from untreated conditions.

Removal of the boxed warning is based on the outcomes of EAGLES (Evaluating Adverse Events in a Global Smoking Cessation Study), which is a randomized, blinded, active- and placebo-controlled clinical trial, in patients without and with a history of psychiatric disorder.

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