You may not know it, but most of the medications you might take, either prescribed, or over-the-counter, are made in other countries by factories that submitted the lowest bid. This makes higher profits for the drug companies doing the “outsourcing,” but is it good for you? I interviewed William Hubbard, a retired FDA associate commissioner, about whether the FDA is able to adequately inspect drugs manufactured in overseas factories.
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This is a new feature that I hope I can sustain each week. I’ve put the content of the most recent podcast, Fitness Rocks podcast 136, into a slide show as a quicktime movie. The movie runs about seven and a half minutes. Check it out and tell me what you think. This week on Fitness Rocks we review an article from the Archives of Internal Medicine on the use of multivitamins. Does taking a multivitamin every day reduce your risk of heart disease or cancer? This week on Fitness Rocks I review two recent studies from the Journal of the American Medical Association about the role of antioxidant vitamin supplements in cancer prevention. The studies looked at vitamin E and C and selenium. |
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