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.
Earlier this year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Obesity Working Group issued its
More than 160,000 people will die prematurely in poor countries this week, many of them women and children. Some of these deaths
Japan, the country that gave the term
Panacos Phamaceuticals Inc. said that its experimental AIDS drug PA
Newmont Mining Corp. urged a court to drop charges against its American director in Indonesia, saying a police investigation that showed dangerous levels of toxins in a bay near its now-defunct mine
Russian officials have quarantined a large poultry farm in Siberia because of a suspected outbreak of bird flu, news reports said. If confirmed, it would be the first major occurrence of the lethal
Drug maker Eli Lilly & Co.warned that Strattera, its new drug for children and adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, may cause serious liver side effects in a small number of
China said it has dismissed and detained officials in the eastern city of Linyi for abuses committed while enforcing the country's one-child policy. The government provided no details and said
Analysts who follow CSL Ltd. are increasingly confident the company will reap windfall profits from a cancer vaccine in development by U.S. partner Merck & Co. After market updates by both companies
Samples of whale blubber by a scientific expedition suggest manmade contaminants have spread virtually world-wide, providing a new indication of how far pollution has spread. Researchers abroad the
