The People's Pharmacy

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about: More than 150 million prescriptions are dispensed each year for antidepressant medications. It...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about: We often imagine that acne is inevitable for adolescents because of the surge...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about: This year more than 200,000 men will get a diagnosis of prostate cancer,...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about: Doctors look to guidelines from highly regarded thought leaders to figure out how...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about:  One of the most terrifying conditions that haunts 21st century adults is the...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about: For years, dermatologists have been warning us to stay out of the sun...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about: How safe is our drinking water? Where does it come from? Over the...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about: In popular culture, death is quick and final, completely irreversible. But within the...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about: Thyroid dysfunction is extremely common, and the symptoms make a person miserable. They...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about: Are you what you eat? Researchers are finding that the meals you choose...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about:  Americans take a lot of medication that is aimed at managing symptoms.  Drugs...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about:  How do hospitals determine what to charge for their services? Steven Brill, author...

In some parts of the country, emergency room physicians have been faced with a puzzling scenario: the patient awakens in the middle of the night with unbearable itching, hives, low blood pressure or trouble breathing. Usually, such an anaphylactic reaction...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about:  Last year, millions of Americans wondered whether their cholesterol-lowering drug was safe. The...

Tune in to our radio show on your local public radio station, or sign up for the podcast and listen at your leisure. Here's what it's about: Susannah Meadows's son was only three years old when he developed terrifying symptoms...