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.
As China's waistlines expand in tandem with its economy, one company Roche Holding AG, is adopting a novel approach to fighting fat : Bringing it into the realm of science.
Under the glare of increasing scrutiny, Beijing must start to respond to problems as if it was going to be held accountable : a report.
Two common vaccinations given to children can increase the short-term risk of seizures significantly. However, the shots appear not to cause serious long-term side effects such as epilepsy or autism,
A top U.S. government expert on AIDS praised Beijing' newfound openess in confronting the disease, but warned that without drastic measures the country has a window of only several years before a
This week, scientists at Harvard University and two Boston-area hospitals reported in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have made preliminary progress toward finding such
In June, Curt Emick, owner of Curt's Good Neighbor Pharmacy in Victorville, California, sent his shop's expired prescription drugs to a Milwaukee company called Capital Returns Inc. Capital in turn,
As the U.S. Congress returns to work this week, members are expecting a free for all on one of the most contentious subjects of recent memory: President George.W. bush's decision to provide limited
Editors of some of the world's most influential medical journals, worried about drug companies' control over medical research are beginning to impose tougher standards insisting that authors, and not
After only one month on a very lowcalorie diet, the gene activity of mice in a scientific study was altered nearly as significantly as that of animals who follow such a diet on a long-term basis.
Providing some of the first evidence that stem cells from embryos can be coaxed to form specific tissue types in the laboratory, scientists at the University of Wisconsin have turned embryonic stem
