Canadian firm Med-Eng is building jammers for the Marines, reports military contractor General Dynamics.
Is it too much to call my med-student friends and egg them on?
Oberweis is taking some of the proceeds and putting it to work in diet-shake maker Medifast (amex: MED - news - people ).
While Americans saw Chang as a med-student son of an immigrant father, Chinese viewers will see a film about a Chinese native living in America but returning to China.
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Chi-Med hopes to restart this plant-mining effort, though it began on a quite different track back in 1995.
Chi-Med was able to skip the early-stage trial with its Crohn's disease drug candidate because its active ingredient, the herb andrographolide, has been used in China for decades to treat respiratory infections and inflammation.
The preponderance of that Hutchison name signals one thing: Chi-Med has a very powerful backer in Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man and chairman and dominant shareholder of the globe-spanning conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa.
But then, pre-med was a decision made for me, by well-meaning parents who thought that it was the best way for me to apply my 35 ACT and 4.0 GPA and achieve wealth and status.
At least you can see a doctor or get a prescription with mini-med plans.
Few other companies straddle the old and new worlds of Chinese medicine the way Chi-Med does.
"It's a massive objective we've set ourselves, " says Christian Hogg, Chi-Med's CEO, in Shanghai.
It leaves Francois Hollande appearing as if he is the leader of the southern "Club-Med" bloc.
He was a pre-med major at the University of Miami, but failed to get into med school.
Other competitors in the technology sector include: iGo (IGOI), Astro-Med, Inc. (ALOT), and Lexmark International (LXK).
This, he said, would be modelled on the European Union's programme for Euro-Med free trade by 2010.
Chi-Med Chief Executive Hogg believes that herbal Chinese medicine is an underexploited reservoir of many more such drug candidates.
That same month pharmaceutical maker Merck KGaA of Germany agreed to co-develop with Chi-Med anticancer drugs derived from natural products.
Chi-Med listed 28% of its outstanding shares on London's AIM exchange last May, but Hutchison Whampoa owns the other 72%.
Q-Med, a Swedish firm, and Inamed, based in California, use hyaluronic acid, a naturally occurring molecule that helps give flesh its fullness.
In 2000 the Chinese government finally opened the traditional medicine sector to foreign investment, and Chi-Med was one of the first in.
AUB, whose leafy campus looks like Harvard-on-the-Med, has turned out 45, 000 graduates.
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Chi-Med created its own formulation and applied for U.S. patents in 2005.
The waivers largely went to low-wage employers who offer "mini-med" plans with limited benefits, including McDonald's Corp. and the Foot Locker Inc. athletic chain.
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The two companies, old-style Shanghai Hutchison and high-tech Hutchison MediPharma, have little in common, yet they share the same parent, Hutchison China MediTech, or Chi-Med.
Some global giants are wagering that Chi-Med is onto something, too.
There is probably room in the market for two or three dozen quality, undergraduate chemistry programs in the US (not counting pre-med programs, which are different).
But Li, 78, is so keen on the growth opportunity for pharmaceuticals in China that he devotes some of his valuable time to signing off on Chi-Med's joint ventures.
The second Chi-Med drug in trials, a radiosensitizer for head and neck cancer, helps make tumor cells more receptive to radiation by increasing the amount of oxygen in the cells.
That same month pharmaceutical maker Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) KGaA of Germany agreed to co-develop with Chi-Med anticancer drugs derived from natural products.
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