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Do you swallow any pills? How many? The average American adult takes four different prescription drugs each day. What are the risks?

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

According to the CDC and the FDA,

a hundred twenty-four thousand people According to the CDC in the FDA, 124,000 people die each year from adverse drug

reactions. Dr. Jennifer Jacobs asks, do you really need that pill?

People have an idea that there's a pill for every ill.

And instead of eating a healthy diet, getting enough exercise,

stopping smoking, doing very positive and

somewhat easy lifestyle changes many people would rather just take a pill

is there any way to change that trend

coming up on the people'sacy how to avoid side effects and

interactions. First, this news. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, drug companies frequently justify the high cost of medications by citing the extraordinary expenses associated with research and development.

The pharmaceutical industry often

states that it costs somewhere between two and three billion dollars to

bring a new drug to market. Clinical trials necessary for FDA approval are cited as a major contributor to the overall expense.

A new study published in Jama Internal Medicine challenges the idea that pivotal efficacy trials account for a

substantial portion of these R&D costs. The investigators analyze data from

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