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 use of implanted cardiac defibrillators is expected to surge, following research showing that the devices cut the death rate 30% among heart-attack patients with weakened cardiac function.The
Baxter International Inc. agreed to pay about $294,000 to each of the families of 10 kidney-dialysis patients in Spain whose recent deaths apparently were linked to Baxter dialysis filters. The
After years of trolling through the human genome, scientists at Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. say they have finally found a gem: an obesity drug that works by changing metabolism. The drug, which
In 1991, the World Health Organization had a white elephant on its hands:200 million doses of smallpox vaccine. That year, it incinerated more than 99% of the stockpile-for lack of about $25,000 a
The U.S. government's crash programme to churn out 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine is a hedge against fears that the virus, left over from Soviet weapons stocks and leaked to terrorists, could
In Uganda and other poor nations besieged by the virus, AIDS no longer needs to be a death sentence for everyone. The life-extending drugs that have transformed treatment of the disease in the U.S.
Chinese officials wants to oppose price caps on the drug industry, upsetting pharmaceutical companies who say it is a misguided effort to fix China's ailing healthcare network.
Japanese investigators searching for the cause of an outbreak of so-called mad-cow disease zeroed in on a milk substitute that may have been fed to all the animals involved.
On the evening of Sept. 10 government officials in Japan dropped a little bombshell: A local dairy cow had tested positive for mad-cow disease. Japan's crisis, of course, is hardly unique. Similar
The Chinese government is trying to keep the terms of its membership in the World Trade Organisation a secret, as government spin doctors try to minimize popular opposition to the trade pact.
