Climate change is affecting the medicine you get by mail.

Record high heat around the U.S. this summer has had big impacts on temperature-sensitive mailed medications ... Temperatures inside of delivery trucks are getting so high that some medications are being delivered melted, and ruined.

KNX News chief correspondent Charles Feldman talked to Raffi Svadjian, an assistant professor of pharmacology, at USC.

Some of the medications most at risk are are epi-pens, rescue inhalers, and insulin.

Climate change is affecting the medicine you get by mail.
Record high heat around the U.S. this summer has had big impacts on temperature-sensitive mailed medications ... Temperatures inside of delivery trucks are getting so high that some medications are being delivered melted, and ruined.
KNX News chief correspondent Charles Feldman talked to Raffi Svadjian, an assistant professor of pharmacology, at USC.
Some of the medications most at risk are are epi-pens, rescue inhalers, and insulin.

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