Officials have also sought to step up domestic production of medicine.

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Farmeron is a Web data service that farmers can use to aggregate the troves of information produced about their animals: diet, health, reproduction, milk production and medicine or drug dosage.

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But many health systems, for-profit and not-for-profit, share its goal: large-scale, production-line medicine.

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So Ms Gordillo came up with an alternative plan, involving a tax on the production of food and medicine.

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Following the pediatric medicine recall, Johnson and Johnson suspended production at McNeil's facility in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania that manufactured the children's drugs.

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Big Pharma could integrate low production cost in China with the quality control of Western medicine and tap a huge domestic demand, Li foresees.

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To make this particular dramaturgical medicine go down, Eyre coats the entire production (which has a book by Julian Fellowes) with spoonfuls of sugar.

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The difficulty here is that drugmakers have often ignored manufacturing efficiency for a good reason: A slight change in the production process can occasionally result in a dangerous change in a medicine.

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He cited the country's production of 20%-enriched fuel as material needed to make medicine for more than 1 million Iranian cancer patients.

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