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A Drug Just for Blacks?

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December 13, 2006

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved the heart drug Bidil for use by black Americans. As Sarah Varney of members station KQED reports, Bidil is the only race-specific drug on the U.S. market -- and as such, it has raised serious questions over the role of race in medicine.

 
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