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Could a tech bite make you allergic to burgers, bratwurst, and barbecue?

How can Alpha Gal allergy affect you or your friends?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. For years, emergency doctors were puzzled by people who started having severe allergic reactions in the middle of the night, hours after they'd gone to bed.

No bug bites, no unusual activities.

Just a terrible reaction.

How did allergists ever figure out what was going on?

Alpha-gal allergy to red meat is not the only consequence of a tick bite.

There's Lyme disease, eryliciosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever to name just a few.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, your calls and questions about alpha gal, insect stings, and other allergies.

First, the news studies

to news.

two news studies question the value of FDA's accelerated approval process for new cancer drugs.

People with cancer are often enthusiastic about the latest purported advance

that might offer them a better quality of life and improve longevity.

Drug companies are also eager to bring their new and pricey cancer medications to market

as quickly as possible. Since 1992, the FDA has permitted drug manufacturers to use the

accelerated approval pathway for their new cancer medicines. Instead of

proving that the drug prolongs life, all the company has to

show is that it improves some measure of the disease process. This might be tumor shrinkage,

response rate, or time to tumor progression.

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