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Keeping You On Your Zs and Qs

From the standards bodies to the FDA to the airwaves, the weird processes that go into naming prescription drugs—and why so many use relatively obscure letters, like Z and X.

Nov 02, 2022

Phar Too Ambitious

The story of Phar-Mor, the pharmacy chain that decided that just being a pharmacy chain wasn’t interesting enough and tried to beat Walmart.

May 14, 2021

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