Show 1031: Could a Tick Bite Make You Allergic to Burgers?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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How Helpful Is Lowering Cholesterol? This week, the American College of Cardiology met and revealed surprising data on some new studies. What is the best way to lower cholesterol? Do healthy people get any benefit from taking cholesterol-lowering drugs? How did doctors determine that some patients really do suffer from muscle problems when they take […]

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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 Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:21.6	New research on cholesterol lowering drugs has cardiologists confounded.
0:37.1	What should patients make of conflicting conclusions?
0:40.5	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:51.0	Cardiologists from around the country met in Chicago last weekend.
0:55.3	One of the studies presented there shows that patients have been right about statin's side effects.
1:01.5	What should people do if their muscles hurt when they take a statin?
1:05.9	A tick bite could result in a surprising allergic reaction to barbecue or burgers.
1:12.1	Symptoms may not show up until hours after someone has eaten meat.
1:15.9	How would you know if you or someone you love has developed an alpha-gal allergy?
1:21.3	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, your calls and questions about the health news that matters to you.
1:27.2	First, the news.
1:31.0	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, when the cardiologists gathered in Chicago at their
1:37.1	annual meeting this week, they learned about a big news study called Hope 3.
1:41.6	What the scientists and their pharmaceutical sponsor, AstraZeneca,
1:46.2	were hoping for, was evidence that a single polypill to treat cholesterol and blood pressure
1:51.8	would save lives from heart disease. The trial was complicated, though, and the results were
1:57.2	published in three separate reports in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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