Category: Drug Access

Where Did All The Corner Drug Stores Go? Areas Lose Easy Access To Medicine

WBEZ Chicago, January 24, 2018. You’ve heard of food deserts — often low-income neighborhoods that are more than a mile from a grocery store. Now another service desert is on the rise in these same neighborhoods: pharmacy deserts. As pharmacies slowly begin to close down on Chicago’s South and West sides, residents are finding it…Continue Reading Where Did All The Corner Drug Stores Go? Areas Lose Easy Access To Medicine

Genes Don’t Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does

The Atlantic, April 13, 2015. Researchers are looking in the wrong place: White people live longer not because of their DNA but because of inequality. As a thought experiment, say that scientists got ancestry right and cooked up a drug that closed the cardiovascular disease mortality gap. Would it do any good? Considering that more…Continue Reading Genes Don’t Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does