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.
The U.S. Senate 's appropriations committee approved a revised foreign aid budget that shifts money from the drug war in Colombia to fight another overseas threat : disease. A total of $625 million
Officials were investigating the accidental flooding of the tine mine in southern China that killed at least 76 miners, after state media accused the operation's owners of a attempting to cover up
A number of major medical journals jointly plan to adopt a policy designed to force drug companies to promise scientific researchers-whose work they fund-freedom to
Violence between protesters and police at last month's Group of Eight summit in Genoa already has landed Silvio Berlusconi's new government in hot water. Now Mr. Berlusconi is embroiled in another
British American Tobacco PLC said it will invest around $1 billion over 10 years building the first foreign owned cigarette factory in South Korea. BAT's move breaks a decades-old manufacturing
The American Life League, an antiabortion group that opposes U.S. government funding of embryonic stem cell research was set to take a new tack in its campaign last week with release of a position
A Los Angeles judge tossed out a jury's $3 billion punitive damage award against Philip Morris Cos. and said he would order a new trial unless the plaintiff. a longtime smoker with lung cancer,
Health authorities warned that cases of dengue fever are rising this year in a southern Malaysian state, where nine people have died from the mosquito-borne diseases since
Generic AIDS drugs, which have stirred controversy even while offering a potent new weapon in the battle against the disease in poor countries, soon will face several key field tests in Africa and
Deep in the skin of adult rats are stem cells so versatile that they can be used to make, muscle or even brain cells, according to findings of researchers at Canada's McGill University. The
