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.
A Florida appeals court threw out a record-setting $145 billion verdict for thousands of Florida smokers against the tobacco industry, saying the case shouldn't have been tried as a class-action
A lone case of mad-cow disease in the Canadian province of Alberta prompted the U.S. to stop all cattle crossing from Canada Tuesday, temporarily halting a $2.2 billion-a-year industry in its tracks
Apparently China is. And the consequences were made apparent this week. The same day it rejected Taiwan's bid for membership, the World Health Organization listed Taiwan as home to the world's "most
In what could be the key to untangling global-trade talks this year, European agriculture ministers meeting said France has indicated privately it is willing to relax its opposition to separating
New Zealand is known for its natural beauty, and it has a fiercely protective environmental movement to match. But that didn't stop a forestry planner for a U.S. company from standing on a hill,
Anti-inflammatory drugs failed to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, a study showed, marking the second big disappointment recently in the treatment of an ailment that afflicts as many as
The World Health Organisation declared that severe acute respiratory syndrome was on the wane in China and around the world, though it warned that many unknowns remain about how the disease spread in
Biogen Inc. and the Idec Pharmaceutical Corp. said they will merge to form one of the world's largest biotechnology companies in a $6.7 billion deal sprung from their continuing collaboration in
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., after a disastrous year dominated by an accounting scandal, finally has a spurt of good news, including US approval for a drug the company is pitching as a first-line
The European Union, hoping to remove the single biggest obstacle to progress in global trade talks, has agreed to change its four decade old system of generous agriculture supports. But whether the
