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Are you suffering with the flu?

Lots of folks are coughing, sneezing, and shivering with fever, what can be done to speed recovery.

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

After years of indifference, health experts are encouraging people to take antiviral medications such as Tamiflu or Relenza if they come down with influenza.

How well do they work?

And are there any dangers?

Now that the holidays are over, the bills are coming due.

Is that making you nervous?

Do you need medication for your stress or are there

other ways to deal with anxiety? Coming up on the people's pharmacy, the health news that matters to you

with your calls and questions. First, this news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, the Food and Drug Administration has just announced a restructuring.

The agency will be adding a new department, the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, to rectify some serious manufacturing problems that have come to light over the last decade.

Last year, drug recalls affected 70 million drug units. As alarming as that sounds, it's actually an improvement over previous years, when 225 million units were recalled annually.

The new Office of Pharmaceutical Quality will pay special attention to extended-release

drugs.

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