Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.

I'm Terry Graydon.

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A mysterious illness brought a brilliant oncologist to the brink of death. What lessons can we learn from his search for true healing?

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

Dr. Neal Specter is one of the country's leading oncologists. When he developed unusual symptoms,

his doctors had difficulty diagnosing his problem. A number of missteps led to a life-threatening heart

condition. When Dr. Spector's physicians finally realized how badly his heart was damaged,

they said that unless he got a transplant,

he could be gone in a heartbeat. What can the rest of us learn from his harrowing experience?

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, a medical mystery and a message of hope and healing.

First, this news.

In the People's pharmacy health headlines, adequate levels of the B vitamin, folic acid taken during pregnancy,

help protect a developing fetus from neural tube defects like spina bifida.

But too many women aren't getting as much folic acid as

they should, says the United States Preventive Services Task Force. The group says less than one-third

of women of childbearing age take a supplement containing folic acid. Because the need for adequate

amounts of the vitamin occurs so early in development,

some women might not realize they're pregnant and start with prenatal vitamins in time. So a regular

multivitamin with 0.4 or 0.8 milligrams of folic acid is recommended for all women who are not

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