Eric Lawitz, MD, explains how pharmacists can raise liver risk with patients with obesity and why a FIB-4 score from routine blood work is a good first step.
|Articles|October 16, 2017
What Are the Key Strategies Necessary to Marketing a Community Pharmacy?
Educating staff is one key step toward implemeting a marketing strategy for a community pharmacy.
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In this interview with Pharmacy Times at the 2017 National Community Pharmacists Association Annual Convention (NCPA), Bruce Kneeland, who is a community pharmacist marketing consultant, explains the importance of a marketing program in helping differentiate community pharmacies from their competition.
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Post hoc STEP UP data at EASD 2026 show liver fat fell from 8.8% to 3.1% at 72 weeks in a 55-person MRI subgroup, though no placebo comparison was reported.
In adults with type 2 diabetes at high cardiovascular (CV) risk, the oral GLP-1 RA also improved HbA1C and weight, with less hypoglycemia but more GI events.
Phase 2b data from EASD 2026 show the amylin-incretin combination also cut HbA1C by up to 2.9% in adults with obesity or overweight and type 2 diabetes.
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A Novo Nordisk–funded claims analysis of adults with type 2 diabetes found an adjusted HR of 1.06 for MACE with switching, although the findings cannot show causation.
Emergency and ICU pharmacists would be most likely to see pneumonic plague. An expert reviews first-line agents, alternatives, and postexposure prophylaxis.
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