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Patents

See Biological research and technology; Business and industry; Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals

See also Health and health technology

Drug Bioequivalence (July 1974)

Drug Labeling in Developing Countries (February 1993)

Federal and Private Roles in the Development and Provision of Alglucerase Therapy for Gaucher Disease (October 1992)

Impacts of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (September 1995)

The Information Content of Premanufacture Notices (April 1983)

Patent-Term Extension and the Pharmaceutical Industry (August 1981)

Pharmaceutical R&D: Costs, Risks, and Rewards (February 1993)

Postmarketing Surveillance of Prescription Drugs (November 1982)

Pollution

See Environmental protection; Hazardous waste; Oceans and oceanography; Superfund; Waste management


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