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Getting a doctor's appointment can be challenging.

What if you had 24-7 access to health professionals through your smartphone?

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

Many of us now depend on our smartphones to navigate, check the weather, and keep up with friends. Now you can

also monitor your blood sugar or take an electrocardiogram with the device in your pocket.

Cardiologist Eric Topol predicts that we'll soon have the ability to monitor a wide range of bodily

functions, from eye pressure and brain waves to routine lab tests. Will standard hospital

rooms be replaced with home monitoring devices? Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, learn why the

future of medicine is already in your hands. First, this news.

In the people's pharmacy health headlines, many women wonder how long the hot flashes and night sweats of menopause will last.

Doctors would sometimes tell them they'd be done within a couple of years, but new research offers a more disturbing and accurate answer. In a 17-year-long study of women's health, scientists collected data from more than 3,000

women going through menopause.

They found that the average duration of these uncomfortable symptoms was just over seven years.

African-American women suffered longer on average than others,

and women whose hot flashes began while they were still having periods

also had to struggle longer for nearly 12 years.

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