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Medicine Without Prescription

Editor’s note: This is part of a summerlong series of articles, “Traveling Light: No suitcase required,” about places area residents can go for relatively inexpensive day trips. The stories will appear on Saturdays. The thought of Civil War medicine calls to mind gruesome amputations performed without anesthesia, horrible infections and painful deaths on the battlefield. The reality is much .Museum gives view of Civil War medicine (The Waynesboro Record Herald)

An unprecedented run on the antiviral medication Tamiflu in WA because of a spike in swine flu cases has left pharmacies without stock for days at a time. Some patients say that despite getting a scWA pharmacies run out of flu medicine (The West Australian)