I'm Joe Grayden and I'm Terry Grayden welcome to this podcast of the

People's Pharmacy. You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of

health topics at people's pharmacy.com.

When people hear the word addiction, they think of alcohol, tobacco, or opioids.

But can we be addicted to shopping or fast food?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco,

says big companies are using the science of pleasure to make money, but it isn't good for us.

We are getting fat, sick, stupid, broke, addicted, depressed, and most decidedly unhappy.

We can turn it around, but we have to turn it around at a societal level.

Find out why the difference between pleasure and happiness is vitally important to our national well-being.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Dr. Lustic on the hacking of the American mind.

First, this news. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,

researchers announced promising new results from immunotherapy against B cell lymphoma.

Two new studies presented at the annual therapy against B cell lymphoma.

Two new studies presented at the annual meeting

of the American Society of Hematology

reported that CART therapy achieved impressive results

for 40% of patients.

CART stands for Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy.

Patients donate blood so that their white blood cells,

known as T cells, can be taught to recognize and

attack their cancer cells. This week, scientists reported on two such therapies,

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