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.
Bayer AG said it is exploring whether to ask some rival drug companies to produce some of its antibiotic Cipro to make certain an adequate supply of the drug is available in the face of the anthrax
Smallpox -whose world wide eradication more than two decades ago is hailed as public health's greatest triumph has turned from success story to biological weapons specter in the wake of the Sept.11
Fifty one years ago, Edward J Nevin checked into a San Francisco hospital, complaining of chills, fever and general malaise. Three weeks later, the 75-year-old retired pipe fitter was dead, the
An employee in the news division of the CBS television network who works in New York for anchor Dan Rather tested positive for anthrax exposure. Meanwhile, officials searched six buildings around the
Hong Kong concedes its smog-filled skies are a menace to public health and to its attractiveness as a place to do business. But devising a broadly accepted solution isn't easy. Besides vehicle fumes,
Baxter International Inc. said early tests show that a fluid used in filters it made may have played a role in the death of at least 33 kidney dialysis patients in Spain, Croatia and the U.S.
A new kind of experimental HIV vaccine protected some monkeys from getting sick with AIDS and suggests a potential solution to one of the most vexing dilemmas facing AIDS vaccine makers. But the way
A genetically engineered bone-growth protein from medical-device maker Medtronic Inc. has proven effective in a clinical study of back surgery, and may avert the need for people to undergo painful
Indian scientists have developed a low-cost anthrax vaccine that avoids all toxic effects in tests on rodents, the government said. Commercial production of the vaccine is expected to begin in six to
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning more than a dozen foreign online pharmacies against selling Cipro in the U.S. as demand for the drug spikes amid the anthrax scare. The agency has
