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

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Americans are polarized, politically, culturally, and medically.

Is there anything we can do to overcome our divisions?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady. Are you fed up with Bickering and Division?

Our guest is a physician and a healer who bases his medical practice in data.

Why does he believe that practicing sincere compassion

could help make all of us healthier?

His book is titled Wonder Drug,

Seven Scientifically proven ways that serving others is the best medicine

for yourself. Can we reverse the attitude that there's a pill for every ill with an extra dose of

kindness? Coming up on the people's pharmacy. for every ill with an extra dose of kindness.

Coming up on the people's pharmacy, find Headlines, because COVID cases have been on the rise,

there's been renewed interest in the oral antiviral medications,

Paxlovid, and Ligevrio.

A new study published in Jama Network Open

reveals that both drugs reduce the likelihood of hospitalization and death in vulnerable patients.

The benefits were somewhat lower than the original clinical trials suggested that may be

because the early studies were carried out in patients who had not been vaccinated and had little, if any, natural immunity against COVID-19.

The latest research was collected from patients who may have been infected with the

SARS-Covitu virus or received at least one vaccination. The researchers conclude, however,

that both drugs remain quite helpful in reducing the risk of death from the virus.

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