Hi, everybody. Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast.

Today, a couple of news topics and maybe things you haven't been told about or you haven't heard about.

First, from pills to needles, while your new meds are now shots.

And then we will talk about the follow-on to the wildfires in California.

There hasn't been a lot of widespread reporting about that.

Turns out power lines and arsonists, not climate change, are again blamed in California's wildfires.

Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton, who's home to look after his

daughters during their holidays.

To him, this is the best sound in the world.

Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.

Now that's term time working.

Offered at Amazon.

10 weeks off guaranteed per year.

Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.

Conditions apply.

If you're like me, you've noticed that a lot of new medicines being advertised in the media

are injections, injections that maybe you only have to get every so often, every few weeks,

every few months, maybe twice a year. So to summarize this discussion, because I dug in a little bit to find out why,

from weight loss drugs like Wigo to cholesterol lowering lecvio, injectable drugs are reshaping

modern medicine with new risks and higher costs. Injectibles are already an $800 billion a year market,

and there's one popular injectable I found that costs $70,000 a year.

We're all paying for that, by the way, even if you don't notice it in your out-of-pocket expenses, it's still coming back to us.

...