China is the largest global supplier of key ingredients for medicines and vitamins. Healthcare providers writing prescriptions for antibiotics, antidepressants, actually many drugs, have no clue, so patients taking them don’t either.
HealthCetera producer Dr. Kenya Beard interviews co-author Rosemary Gibson on her new book China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine, an investigative report into the dependence on China for the production of crucial medications. She co-authored this with Janardan Prasad Singh
Rosemary Gibson is a senior advisor at the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute, and is the author of numerous books investigating healthcare issues.
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