Show 1005: Balancing Benefit & Risk for Pain Relief

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Millions of Americans rely on popular pain relievers such as celecoxib, diclofenac, ibuprofen, meloxicam, naproxen and other NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). The fact that some of these medications are available without prescription in products such as Advil, Aleve or Motrin IB gives many of us the impression that they must be safe. Balancing Benefit & […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.3	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.8	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.2	This podcast is brought to you by Redix Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:29.6	Every day, tens of millions of Americans swallow a pain reliever.
0:35.6	Drugs like Advil and Aleve are really popular.
0:38.3	How safe are such insides?
0:40.8	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:48.1	The FDA recently strengthened its warning on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as dichlofenac, ibuprofen, molyxicam, and neproxen.
1:00.0	The cardiovascular complications of n-seds are more serious than most people realize, do you need to be concerned?
1:07.1	Those with arthritis or other types of chronic pain face a difficult dilemma.
1:11.7	Without pain relief, they often have a hard time functioning.
1:15.1	What else can they do besides taking n-seds?
1:18.3	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, pain reliever pros and cons and non-drug approaches.
1:25.1	First, this news.
1:30.4	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:34.0	a new analysis of blood sugar shows that diabetes is becoming more common among Americans.
1:38.9	The study published in JAMA this week reveals that as many as 14% of adults have diabetes.
1:46.3	The criteria are a fasting blood sugar of 126 or higher or a hemoglobin A1C of 6.5% or greater.
1:55.1	The HBA1C test is a way of measuring average blood sugar over about three months.
2:01.4	More than a third of the people with diabetes had gone undiagnosed.
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