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.
Now though, rhesus monkeys have become so scare and expensive scientists are forced to look for alternatives. That is a sharp turnaround from decades ago, when the animals were imported from India by
The current vaccine shortage in the U.S. is alarming parents and pediatricians who fear children are going unprotected for preventable diseases. But the crisis is worrisome for adults too. Shots and
AstraZeneca PLC's experimental drug Iressa shrank tumors in some desperately ill lung-cancer patients, a study shoed, likely keeping the medicine on track for regulatory approval in the U.S. this
The European union has offered to discuss mobile phone radiation emission standards with china before the threatened implementation of the world's toughest health rules, EU Ambassador to china Klaus
There is trouble on the other side of the chain-link fences surrounding the state government's Foothills Wildlife Research Facility plague that is frighteningly similar to mad cow disease. It was
The World Health Organisation called for tougher antismoking regulations across Asia, where as many as 50,000 teenagers start smoking
The country is embarking on a massive program to inoculate China's poorest against hepatitis, reflecting the economic ruin the disease wreaks on families and marking an about-face from the
An ailing orphan on a long airplane flight touched off a race this spring in the U.S. to track dozens of people exposed to an old disease that is making a comeback.
China requested the establishment of a World Trade Organisation panel to rule on the legality of a U.S. decision to raise import tariffs on steel. The panel request is China's first since it joined
China requested the establishment of a World Trade Organisation panel to rule on the legality of a U.S decision to raise import tariffs on steel. The panel request is China's first since it joined
