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Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.

I'm Terry Graydon.

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You're going to outside. Be careful.

Experts expect ticks to be rampant this summer.

Could a tick bite threaten your life?

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

A surge in mouse populations this year means we should also expect lots of ticks,

and that means people are more likely to experience an infection transmitted by a tick bite.

Probably the most notorious tick-borne infection is Lyme disease.

We'll talk with two physicians who had enormous difficulty getting their medical colleagues to diagnose their Lyme disease.

Why is this increasingly common infection so challenging to diagnose and treat?

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, what you need to know about Lyme disease.

First, this news.

In the People's pharmacy health headlines, in the U.S., condroitin sulfate is usually sold as a dietary supplement and taken in conjunction with glucosamine to treat arthritis pain.

Most well-controlled trials in this country have shown that the combination is no better than placebo. A new European study demonstrates, however, that pharmaceutical-grade conjoitin sulfate is significantly better than placebo at alleviating the pain of knee osteoarthritis. In the six-month-long trial,

604 patients were randomly assigned to take either 200 milligrams of silicocib,

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