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Mapping the crisis: How data can help fix America’s growing pharmacy deserts

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True visibility comes from layering pharmacy locations on top of geospatial data, such as population density, income levels, transportation access, insurance coverage, and health burden. But solving this challenge requires more than simply counting how many pharmacies exist in a given area.

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Pharmacists’ Biggest Secret (About Themselves)

The People's Pharmacy

(Insurance companies are primarily concerned with getting people off expensive brand name drugs and switching them to cheap generics.) Email I’ve Received from Skeptical Pharmacists: For several years, I wrote commentaries for the popular pharmacy magazine Drug Topics. And there are other critical drugs.