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Acid-suppressing medications like Nexium and Prylosec are thought to be among the safest drugs in the pharmacy.

Have we been misled?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

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people's pharmacy, the health news that matters to you. First, the news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,

scientists at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota have identified a new type of bacteria

that can cause Lyme disease.

For decades, Lyme disease has been associated with infection

with Borrelia burgdorferi.

It was originally discovered in Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s.

A number of children were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis,

and researchers were looking for the cause and eventually focused on deer ticks in the kids'

backyards.

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