Show 1447: Falls, Fractures and Fatalities: Surprising Risks in Your Medicine Cabinet

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, we start the show with an interview with epidemiologist Thomas Farley, MD, MPH. His essay in JAMA Health Forum (Aug. 8, 2025) describes why older Americans are dying of falls at an alarming rate. Once you have a chance to hear why this problem is worse in the US than in comparable countries, […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon. And I'm Terry Graydon. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:15.5	Falls send a lot of people to the ER. In fact, more older Americans die from Falls than from breast or
0:22.8	prostate cancer. This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:32.4	The number of deaths from Falls in the U.S. has been increasing dramatically in recent decades.
0:40.9	That's not true of other developed countries.
0:43.3	What makes us so vulnerable?
0:45.5	Our guest today blames overuse of prescription drugs.
0:49.6	Many of the pills Americans take make them unsteady on their feet.
0:53.4	Has your medicine ever made you dizzy?
0:55.2	Our lines are open for your stories and questions at 888-472-3366. Coming up on the people's pharmacy,
1:03.9	the surprising risks in your medicine cabinet.
1:21.5	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, when COVID first appeared, one of the novel symptoms that people reported was a loss of the ability to smell.
1:25.8	Now, research indicates that this problem can last for years.
1:29.5	The study, called Recover, included 1,393 people who said they had trouble detecting odors. In addition, 1,563 were included who did not report that problem.
1:43.4	Nearly all of the volunteers had a documented
1:46.0	COVID-19 infection. The researchers tested participants' ability to smell. 80% of those reporting
1:53.8	olfactory difficulties had tests confirming the problem. Somewhat surprisingly, 66% of those who did not report trouble smelling also had some
2:04.1	abnormalities in their sense of smell. Of those, 8% were severely impaired. Not being able to smell is
2:12.5	bad enough. The investigators also report a link between an impaired sense of smell and cognitive difficulties or brain fog.
2:21.3	Scientists suggest that these deficits could have a profound impact on people's well-being.
2:26.6	The FDA first approved the anticoagulant heparin in 1939.
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