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A combination of factors including the current corporate tax rate makes pharmaceutical production in the United States more attractive now than investing in either China or India. And adopting advanced technologies such as Continuous Manufacturing (CM) further positions the United States to recapture a prominent position in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

While a criminologist might analyze broad patterns of carjackings or corporate crime, a new, related research field pioneered by a UMD scientist has her tracking the fate of a sluglike animal swimming off Mexico’s coast. Meredith Gore, an assistant professor of geographical sciences who in 2009 created the concept of “conservation criminology,” worked this summer on the Yucatan Peninsula for her latest study, spurred by concerned local fishing communities and funded by the U.S.

Treating patients with severely compromised lung functions presents a cruel dilemma: although such patients need a mechanical ventilator to help them breathe, the ventilator itself can also cause lung injury, compounding the problem.