FRANKFURT— Bayer AG’s big push into the U.S. agrochemical market with its planned acquisition of Monsanto Co. could help it offset a growing problem on its home turf: increasingly stringent European regulation.
Six top scientific publishers will provide discounted, and in some cases, free, access to some 1,000 pricey medical journals to hospitals, universities and research centers in developing countries.
When the leaders of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research began their weekly conference call June 7, they got bad news. For months, the alliance, made up of patient's groups,
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the world's oldest school of public health, for years plodded along with inadequate funding and an ill-coordinated approach for its research into
Celera Genomics Group signed its most symbolically important customer to date : The U.S. National Cancer Institute. The institute is the largest unit of the National Institutes of Health, which leads
Boehringer-Ingelheim GmbH finally figured out a way to get its offer of no-cost HIV/AIDS drugs to health programs in Africa and other poor nations and has begun shipping 50000 doses of its drug.
One of the leading American stem-cell researchers will move to the UK to pursue embryo research, citing an increasing unfriendly climate in the U.S. and better opportunities abroad. The researcher,
To foreign companies operating in India, the cow is a sacred cow. But India actually is a major producer and consumer of leather, and not all of it comes from goat, sheep and buffalo. The country,
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott said he opposes federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, while White House officials indicated President George W. Bush won't announce a decision on
The US government ordered Johns Hopkins University to suspend all federally funded research on humans after the death of a young study volunteer raised questions about the university's procedures.
Trying to defuse a widening public-relations crisis, a top executive at Philip Morris Cos. apologized for a company-funded report calling cost savings from smokers' early deaths one of the "positive
