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Capital
$ 21 $ 12 expenditures $ 28 $ 26
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MDS Pharma Services revenues grew 4%, based on solid 12% revenue growth in our late-stage businesses. Early-stage revenues were down 2% compared to the same quarter last year, as weakness in both early clinical and bioanalytical revenues more than offset otherwise strong growth in drug safety and discovery/preclinical revenues. We have been invited to propose on an increasing number of generic drug studies and as a result, we have seen some strength in new orders in the early-stage businesses this quarter. In addition, bioanalytical revenues were modestly higher on a quarter-over-quarter basis following three quarters of decline. We believe that these are positive signs of stability returning to our early-stage businesses, and an indicator that some of the prior customer uncertainty created by the FDA issues is being resolved.
Organic revenue growth of 3% reconciles to reported growth as follows:
Revenue
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Reported revenue growth 4%
Impact of currency fluctuations on revenue growth (1%)
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Organic revenue growth 3%
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