{"id":5339,"date":"2004-11-09T19:10:29","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T19:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:09:46","slug":"a-dangerous-idea-jim-crow-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/09\/a-dangerous-idea-jim-crow-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dangerous Idea &#8211; Jim Crow Drugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/wire\/2004\/11\/08\/drug\/index_np.html \">Drug could become first for specific race <\/a><br \/>\nBy Marilynn Marchione<\/p>\n<p>New Heart Drug May Be Marketed to Blacks<\/p>\n<p>November 9, 2004<br \/>\nBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<br \/>\nFiled at 1:07 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) &#8212; The largest study ever done solely on blacks with heart failure raises the controversial prospect of the first drug that might be marketed to a specific racial group.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental drug, BiDil, dramatically improved survival and cut hospitalizations for heart failure, a<br \/>\nproblem that affects 5 million Americans, blacks 2 1\/2 times more often than whites.<\/p>\n<p>Its maker, NitroMed, plans to seek federal approval for the two-drug combination pill by year&#8217;s end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug could become first for specific race By Marilynn Marchione New Heart Drug May Be Marketed to Blacks November 9, 2004 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 1:07 p.m. ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) &#8212;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-5339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-health-and-medicine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1o7","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6558,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions\/6558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}