Pharmacists must counsel patients about circumstances in which SGLT2i must be withheld, including prior to procedures, stressful physical activity (e.g., marathon running), acute illness, and low caloric intake
Insert the needle through the center of the bacteriostatic water vial's rubber stopper and inject the air into the vial before drawing liquid
IgA nephropathy is a progressive autoimmune kidney disease that can lead to kidney failure in up to 50% of patients over time
Contraindicated in patients with a personal or family history of MTC and in patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2 (MEN 2)
Lillys new self-pay pharmacy, LillyDirect, allows patients with a valid, on-label prescription to purchase the vials, effectively competing with potentially unsafe but more affordable counterfeit, fake, unsafe or untested knockoffs of Lilly's medications, according to the release