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Do you ever get fed up with scary health headlines about the risks of coffee, wine, or bacon?

How can you make sense of them? This is the People's Pharmacy with

Terry and Joe Grayden. Dr. Aaron Carroll is a pediatrician, an expert on health research and policy.

He'll offer us advice on making sense of health risks.

We know that the sun raises your risk of skin cancer.

No one says never go out in the sun.

They say, take proper precautions and think about how much you're doing

because you don't want to raise

your risk too much. Putting scary statistics into perspective requires more than a

headline. Distinguishing between relative risk and absolute risk is critical to making informed decisions.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy how to tell which health risks you should worry about.

First, this news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,

popular blood pressure medications called ACE inhibitors

have been associated with an increased risk of lung cancer.

Licinopril is the most prescribed drug in the United States.

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