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When Gezina Baehr was in Grade 10, she heard a little nugget of trivia that made her want to be a pharmacist: cough medicine actually works on the brain by inhibiting the impulse to cough. “Most people think it just coats your throat and because of that you don't cough anymore,†said the University of Alberta’s first Indigenous graduate to earn the new doctor of pharmacy degree. “I heard that and I thought, ‘That is incredible, I wonder what else medications are doing that we don’t quite understand.’â€
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