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

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Is your attic, basement, or garage filled to the brim with stuff?

What's the difference between collecting and hoarding? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and

Joe Gradyden. When hoarding behavior gets out of control, it's considered a disorder.

How would you know if you or a family member has gone over the line.

As someone who accumulates medical research articles in piles around my desk,

I can relate to people who have difficulty discarding stuff.

How can we get started reorganizing our stacks of paper?

Joe, once you get organized, how will you keep the clutter from accumulating again?

Coming up on the People's pharmacy, everything you ever needed to know about hoarding. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, masks are important to limit the

spread of the omicron variant of SARS-Covi 2. this form of the coronavirus spreads far more easily and quickly than previous

versions. That's why switching to a really effective mask and wearing it properly inconsistently makes sense.

When the pandemic began, there were not enough high quality N95 masks for everyone.

So the CDC encouraged ordinary citizens to use cloth masks and save the most effective equipment for health care providers.

At this point though, there's no longer a shortage.

Expert consensus is growing that all of us should be wearing a KN95 or an N95 mask

whenever we're indoors with people outside our household. N95s are approved by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

The 95 indicates that they filter out 95% of the particles that could make us sick. The CDC has a list of

approved N95 respirators on its website.

People with diabetes are at higher risk for complications from COVID-19.

Now, the CDC reports that the virus puts children at greater risk for developing diabetes.

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