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Our empirical evaluation of competition between pharmaceuticals was based on information on prescription drug consumption by non-hospital patients in the National Health Service (NHS) in England in 19% and the Sistema Nacional de Salud or SNS (National Health System) in Spain in 1997. The authors wish to thank Statistics Division IE of the UK Department of Health and the Directorate-General of Pharmacy and Health Products of the Spanish Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs for supplying us with these data. As can be seen from Table 4.1, public consumption of pharmaceuticals... 

We would like to thank Richard Davies for editorial assistance. This research was supported by grants from the EU Commission (QLRT-1999-01422) and the Spanish Ministry of Health (FIS, 00/543 and 02/1314). 

This work has been funded by the FP7 Health project STATegra (Grant number 306000) and the BIO2012-40244 grant of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. 

Fernando Martin Sanchez holds PhDs in informatics and in medicine. He is chair of Health Informatics at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, and the director of the university s Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and his research has been funded by some 30 grants from the European Commission the Spanish Ministries of Health, Science, and Defense and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Coimcil, the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society, and Department of Health and Ageing. His research interests cover a wide range of topics related to the role of informatics in precision medicine (genomics and exposomics) and participatory health (social media, quantified-self, and mobile apps and devices). 

This study was partly funded by Grant BFU2010-19599 provided by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Spanish Cell Therapy Network (TerCel) of Spanish National Institute of Health Carlos III. 

A review is presented of the findings of a study of PVC as a packaging material undertaken by a committee of experts set up by the Spanish Ministry of the Environment. It was concluded that PVC does not pose a threat to health or the environment, that it complies with requirements for specific packaging applications, and that PVC packaging waste can be easily recycled and safely incinerated. SPAIN,MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT... 

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