I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.

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Have you ever tried to protest a medical bill that seemed unreasonable?

Most people's journalist Marshall Allen has good advice for consumers, but first a warning.

We need to realize that the health care system is not broken. It was made this way and it was made

this way by the powerful institutions and stakeholders who are working together to extract the

money out of our paychecks and out of our pocketbooks.

Alan has spent years figuring out how to detect errors and fraud and what to do about them.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, why you should never pay the first bill. In the people's pharmacy health headlines, the COVID pandemic might fuel a later epidemic of dementia according to a study from Argentina.

The researchers reported on more than 400 people over 60 years old who had recovered from COVID-19.

Of these, about 60% showed evidence of cognitive impairment even if their initial infections were mild.

The scientists used accurate polymerized chain reaction tests to confirm infection with SARS-Cove2.

This incidence of cognitive difficulty is about 10 times higher than investigators would normally expect to find in a population of this age.

They'll be following up with testing for these individuals for the next three to five years

to see if the trouble persists.

Should soccer balls be sold with health warnings?

A leading Scottish neuropathologist has studied more than 7,000 professional players.

He concluded that these men are three and a half times more likely to develop dementia before

they die than the general public.

Professor Willie Stewart told Reuters, quote,

with the current data were now at the point to suggest that football

should be sold with a health warning saying repeated

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