Export-supported jobs linked to manufacturing account for an estimated 1.2 percent of Hawaii's total private-sector employment. Approximately 5.3 percent of all manufacturing workers in Hawaii depend on exports for their jobs.
Hydergine (generic: ergoloid mesylates), whose chemical name is dihydroergotoxine mesylate, is an FDA-approved drug used to aid in the treatment of older individuals showing signs of neurodegenerative disease. It is thought to have both neuroprotective (protective of the brain cells) and nootropic effects.
Pethidine, also known as meperidine and sold under the brand name Demerol among others, is a synthetic opioid pain medication of the phenylpiperidine class. Synthesized in 1939 as a potential anticholinergic agent by the German chemist Otto Eisleb, its analgesic properties were first recognized by Otto Schaumann while working for IG Farben, Germany. Pethidine is the prototype of a large family of analgesics including the pethidine 4-phenylpiperidines, the prodines, bemidones and others more dist