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The pioneers behind historic Black-owned pharmacies

A quick trip to the drugstore sounds like a typically mundane shopping adventure we all have taken from time to time. Unfortunately, for Black Americans, especially during America’s Jim Crow segregation era, a trip to the pharmacy for prescriptions or … Continue reading

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Losing the sanctity of the doctor’s office

Don’t know about all of you, but I am rather tired of hearing/seeing drug advertisements fill the airwaves. It is bad enough that they perpetually dot the TV map, but not you have to listen to these digitized pseudo-diagnoses while … Continue reading

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Hooked on tonics – Is the world addicted?

The best new song and video of 2011, to date, are entitled “Anti-D” for short or “Anti-Depressent” by Liverpool’s indie rock band, The Wombats. The tune is a satirical and thought-provoking slam on modern medicine and its synthetic solutions to … Continue reading

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