America's Dependence on China for Medicine: Disturbing!

Guest: Rosemary Gibson, Author of “China RX:
Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine.Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it--and
pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for improving the current system of drug supply and manufacturing. Several decades ago, penicillin, vitamin C, and many other
prescription and over-the-counter products were manufactured in the United States. But with the rise of globalization, antibiotics, antidepressants, birth
control pills, blood pressure medicines, cancer drugs, among many others are made in China and sold in the United States. China's biggest impact on the US drug supply is making essential ingredients for thousands of medicines found in
American homes and used in hospital intensive care units and operating rooms. There are major problems with this scenario. Hear what they are in this episode of the Dr Ed Show