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

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Americans spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year on medications.

Are we getting our money's worth?

This is the people's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady. Nowadays most medications are made overseas. That's especially true of generic drugs.

Questions have been raised about the quality of some of these inexpensive pharmaceuticals.

Contaminated eye drops have been linked to cases of blindness and even deaths.

Why didn't the FDA catch the problem before it caused harm?

When the FDA inspects foreign facilities, it has to arrange visits in advance.

Do such announcements undermine its ability to detect flaws and fraud?

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, how does the FDA monitor drug quality? quality.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,

As we move towards spring,

public health officials are looking forward to the end of flu season. That hasn't happened yet, with overall infections at 4.4% nationally.

However, we are getting an uptick in Naurovirus. That frequently occurs in the spring causing nausea, vomiting, and

diarrhea. Fever and headache may accompany the gastrointestinal symptoms.

Affected individuals are miserable as well as extremely infectious.

Some people refer to this condition as intestinal apocalypse.

Patients usually develop symptoms between 12 and 48 hours after exposure.

At this time, the Northeast has the highest rates of neurovirus,

but it has appeared in other parts of the country as well, including the west and

southwest. Most people recover within two or three days, but dehydration due to

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