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 first medical breakthrough in decades to treat the most serious form of diabetes is tantalizing close. Two years after researchers unveiled a new technique for transplanting pancreatic islet
Women who gain retain a significant amount of weight from pregnancy may be putting themselves at risk of developing breast cancer in their later years, according to new research.
Alos Angeles Fertility clinic is set to open the first commercial egg bank in the U.S., an institution that will, for a steep fee, freeze the eggs not only of couples with fertility problems, but
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said an unapproved genetically altered Monsanto canola seed that may slipped into U.S. crops doesn't appear to pose health risks, a report that will help buffer
Olen Kew made an unusual discovery two years ago while testing stool samples taken from two paralyzed children on the Carbbean island of Hispaniola. Though pesticide poisoning was the initial
Last year about 12000 Americans died of stomach cancer. Some of them might still be alive today if they had lived in Japan. That is because of an all-out effort in Japan to catch stomach cancer at
Anglo American PLC has decided not to implement an in-house feasibility study to provide AIDS drugs to its African work force, say people at the mining company familiar with the situation. Anglo was
Americans alone spend more than $10 billion a year on drugs that reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering the level of so-called bad cholesterol. In a few years, the U.S. may be spending big
The world is close to eliminating polio by the end of the year, but that prospect may be undermined by the existence of regional conflicts, a funding shortfall of $275 million and the challenges,
Gifu University in Central Japan has started human trials of an experimental treatment that involves using a patients own stem cells to help regenerate heart muscle that has been damaged by a heart
