Can you treat accounting figures like meat or pharmaceuticals?
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It formalizes the relationship between those who want to use the genetic resources of a given area, say as a basis for developing cosmetics or pharmaceuticals, and those who live in the region where the resources are found, for example an indigenous community in the Amazon.
Their production is not a high-technology enterprise: a factory or laboratory that makes fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, or plastics can readily be adapted for the purpose.
In recent years, some reports have suggested that tap water could be contaminated by trace amounts of pharmaceuticals or other substances.
Datamonitor, a New York-based market analysis firm, noted in a report, published March 2001, of an industry shift towards "high-barrier-to-entry generic products, " or specialty generic pharmaceuticals.
Mr Taub speculated that the tiny chip could be used to identify drugs and spot fake pharmaceuticals, or in hospitals to log all the treatment a patient has received.
It could be related to ill-gotten Google advertising gains from promoting online piracy of movies, facilitating commerce in counterfeit goods like pharmaceuticals, or selling keywords that are trademarked to competitors.
But to do it right you have to first tackle the problems with the supply side, whether those are medical cartels, regional insurance monopolies, anti-competitive practices, or gross protectionism of pharmaceuticals.
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In other industries, monopolization of a market or blatant protectionism (in pharmaceuticals, for instance) has quashed competition and innovation.
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We won't build up industrial strength unless we work out what we do best as a country, whether it's cars, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, or the creative industries, and help them do even better.
They may opt for a bare metal stent to prop up a second vessel, or substitute the more expensive anti-coagulants, such as Millennium Pharmaceuticals' (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) Integrilin, or Eli Lilly's (nyse: LLY - news - people ) ReoPro, with cheaper ones.
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Or the free trade within the EU of pharmaceuticals could be abolished.
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The court ruled that because federal law prohibits direct sales of prescription pharmaceuticals, no rep actually sells a drug or sample.
Or Paul Drayson, the head of England's Powderject Pharmaceuticals who dresses in the khaki and gray casual outfits that the men's rag trade has labeled nerdware.
The latest target is online pharmaceuticals and their affiliates providing medications such as generic or unlicensed Viagra, Nexium, or Lipitor, all of which are illegal for Americans to have mailed into the United States.
Publishing, telecommunications, oil exploration, marketing, pharmaceuticals, banking and insurance all remain either fiercely protected or off-limits to foreigners altogether.
"A combination of psychotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy and pharmaceuticals could actually change the brain and restore it more or less to normal, " he said.
As an undergraduate, Mr. Holmes's course work and after-hours work in the chemistry lab would have focused on biological chemistry and pharmaceuticals, not on chemicals that might be used to make gases or explosives, former UC Riverside neuroscience students said.
Eli Lilly may well be the potential mystery bidder for ImClone , but whether or not a published report pegging it as the possible suitor is correct, the pharmaceuticals maker would be better served to stay away.
Another potential beneficiary is Kos Pharmaceuticals, which makes a preparation of niacin to raise good cholesterol, or HDL. Patients on Crestor in this trial had a surprisingly big jump in HDL. The big question is how much doctors will embrace this single study.
"We see Nexium as a significantly better product than Losec or Prilosec but not sufficiently different to be classified as a new remedy, " says Jo Walton, a pharmaceuticals analyst at Lehman Brothers in London.
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