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When pharmacies close, low income neighborhoods lose access

By Forbes  
   October 21, 2019

The escalating closure of U.S. pharmacies tends to hit independent drugstores and low-income neighborhoods, a new analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine says. One in eight pharmacies had closed between 2009 and 2015, which “disproportionately affected independent pharmacies and low-income neighborhoods,” the analysis led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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