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Commerce - Trends
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Definition of 'Commerce'The interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale, between different countries or between populations within the same country. It includes trade (the buying, selling, or exchanging of commodities, whether wholesale or retail) and business (the purchase and sale of goods to make a profit). (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed, p411, p2005 & p283) Common names: Commerce; Commerces; Commercial Sector; Commercial Sectors; Sector, Commercial; Sectors, Commercial; Sales; Prices; Price; Vendors; Vendor; Business; Businesses; Contraceptive Importation; Contraceptive Importations; Importation, Contraceptive; Importations, Contraceptive |
Monday, November 23, 2009
29 Jun 2009 
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the impact of global strategies, such as pooled procurement arrangements, third-party price negotiation and differential pricing, on reducing the price of antiretrovirals (ARVs), which currently hinders universal access to ... Read more...
OCT technology development: where are we now? A commercial perspective.
29 Jun 2009 The field of optical coherence tomography (OCT) has grown enormously since its inception in 1991 at MIT, encompassing many areas of imaging research. Improvements in the optical technology used in OCT systems, and in the design of the OCT ... Read more...
Shopping for psoriasis medications on the Internet.
4 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Numerous consumer products, including medicines, can be bought over the Internet. Previous reports indicate that patients are able to purchase the current available treatments, including expensive systemic and biological agents with ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Commerce - Trends'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Market watch: Sales of biologics to show robust growth through to 2013.
30 Oct 2009 - Prices for elastic bandages bend, but won't break, the bank for your hospital's bottom line. 30 Jul 2009
- Eating healthily and rising food prices. 11 Jul 2009
- Potential causes and health effects of rising global food prices. 11 Jul 2009
- Global strategies to reduce the price of antiretroviral medicines: evidence from transactional databases. 29 Jun 2009
- OCT technology development: where are we now? A commercial perspective. 29 Jun 2009
- [Vaccination campaigns in the animal specialty store] 13 Jun 2009
- Hospitals catch a break on casting, splinting supply prices. Latest pricing poll runs nearly identical to 2005 rates. 30 May 2009
- Pharmacy benefit spending poised to increase for antithrombotic drug therapy -- prasugrel versus clopidogrel.
30 May 2009 - Assessment of the opportunities for pharmaceutical manufacturers in emerging markets. 30 May 2009
- Sales from licensed and acquired products to increase by 2013. 30 May 2009
- Shopping for psoriasis medications on the Internet. 4 May 2009
- Tobacco sales to minors in Italy. 29 Apr 2009
- A master's degree with a business spin gains popularity. 29 Apr 2009
- Group contracts, commodity status keep bandages and dressings prices down. Average prices quietly slip to four-year low. 29 Apr 2009
- Keynote address--the innovator's prescription: an examination of the future of health care through the lenses of disruptive innovation. 30 Mar 2009
- Anti-depressants and suicide. Mar 2009
- Hip implant price hikes ease as market matures. 27 Feb 2009
- Impact of South American heroin on the US heroin market 1993-2004. 4 Feb 2009
- IOL pricing: close look shows it's clearly flat. 30 Jan 2009
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Technical information about 'Commerce'
Definition: The interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale, between different countries or between populations within the same country. It includes trade (the buying, selling, or exchanging of commodities, whether wholesale or retail) and business (the purchase and sale of goods to make a profit). (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed, p411, p2005 & p283)
Descriptor UI: D003132
Alternative terms: Commerce; Commerces; Commercial Sector; Commercial Sectors; Sector, Commercial; Sectors, Commercial; Sales; Prices; Price; Vendors; Vendor; Business; Businesses; Contraceptive Importation; Contraceptive Importations; Importation, Contraceptive; Importations, Contraceptive;
Related Mesh Headings: Economic Competition; Industry; Antitrust Laws; Ethics, Business;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;
Tree Number: J01.219;
Technical Notes: includes business & trade; SPEC: SPEC qualif