Word: acidic
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...Seventeen of the 20 largest drug companies worldwide now make drugs in Ireland, largely because of tax incentives. Pfizer's Lipitor for cholesterol, the largest-selling drug in the world, is made in Ireland. So too is Viagra, for erectile dysfunction. AstraZeneca's Nexium, for heartburn and acid reflux, comes from Sweden, France and other countries. TAP Pharmaceutical Products' Prevacid, another brand prescribed for heartburn and acid reflux, comes from Japan. Because of the rapid rise in drug imports, especially from Ireland, Britain and Germany, the U.S. balance of trade in pharmaceuticals has tipped sharply into deficit. During the early...
...after being named as a source for a BBC report that Blair's government had "sexed up" the case for war against Iraq. Hutton's verdict confounded widespread expectations that some blame, perhaps enough to unseat him, would attach to the Prime Minister. Instead, Hutton poured virtually all his acid on the BBC - for making "unfounded" charges about the integrity of Blair and his aides and then not correcting them or even properly investigating the government's repeated complaints. "We expect we can get back on the front foot pretty quickly," says a senior Blair aide, with ministers planning...
...data that returned just an hour later revealed that the two viruses were more than similar: they were almost identical. The 14 amino-acid sequences concurred, which meant that the viruses not only belonged to the same phylogenetic tree, they were also both on the same branch--and practically on the same leaf. The virus that was in those wild-animal markets had somehow infected a human being. The data were so compelling that the committee resolved that afternoon to phone the provincial governor and recommend a culling of civets...
...arginine: This naturally occurring amino acid is a precursor to nitric oxide and is believed to improve the flow of blood to the genitals...
...that high blood levels of vitamins B6 and B12, along with folate, are linked to a reduced risk of breast cancer in some women. And another study, at Georgetown, suggested that B12 and B6 may slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease by lowering blood levels of the amino acid homocysteine...