The United States government accused German pharmaceutical giant Bayer of making scientifically unproven statements about the health benefits of a popular probiotic on Friday.
Chinese authorities have visited an office of German pharmaceutical giant Bayer, the company said on Friday, making it the latest target in a probe of foreign drug firms over high prices.
Revelations that Western drug companies colluded with East Germany's communist regime to use more than 50,000 people as "human guinea pigs" in 1980s medical trials has sparked widespread outrage.
A poisonous cloud containing a potentially cancer-causing chemical was accidentally released over Frankfurt on Tuesday, with residents of two districts warned to stay indoors throughout the afternoon.
German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer, maker of Aspirin, vowed Monday to fight a ruling by the patent authorities in India allowing a local company to produce and sell a generic copy of its anti-cancer drug Nexavar.
A lobbyist for a powerful pharmacy group is thought to have spied on Germany's Health Ministry for nearly two years in order to collect confidential information, a newspaper revealed on Wednesday.
Communist East Germany not only put its political prisoners to work making Ikea furniture, it also sold the bodies of its sick citizens to Western pharmaceutical firms for testing their new products, a new television documentary has revealed.
German pharmaceutical company Merck has stopped selling its cancer drug Erbitux to Greek hospitals, as they are not able to pay. Patients needing the drug will have to buy it themselves from pharmacies.
A woman born without limbs after her mother took thalidomide while pregnant won on Wednesday a landmark multi-million dollar settlement in her class action against drug firms - including Germany-based GrĂĽnenthal.
A German company which studies drug prescription habits for the pharma industry is accused of selling raw data to drug companies, in what magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i> said on Monday could be a huge data protection scandal.
Around €250 million worth of swine flu vaccine was due to go up in smoke on Tuesday – as Germany disposed of 16 million doses that people refused to take during last year’s outbreak of the potentially deadly virus.
Saturday marks 50 years since the deformity-causing drug thalidomide was banned in Germany. Thousands of victims will protest in Berlin this weekend to call for greater compensation and recognition of their suffering. Jessica Ware reports.
German pharmaceutical giant Merck KGaA has charged that US rival Merck and Co. somehow got control of its Facebook page and won’t give it back. To make matters worse, the company says the social network won’t help resolve the situation.
The German consumer protection group Foodwatch has called for margarine which promises to reduce blood cholesterol levels to be only sold in pharmacies, calling it a “pill to spread on your bread.”
The world’s biggest pharmaceutical firm Pfizer is cutting more than 500 jobs in Germany – around one in eight of the work places in the country, according to insiders who have spoken to the <i>Handelsblatt</i> newspaper.
Eclipsed in recent years by rivals in the US, UK and Switzerland, Germany’s pharmaceuticals industry is now excelling in an increasingly important sector – medical biotechnology.
An Egyptian queen who died 3,500 years ago might have poisoned herself accidentally by using a carcinogenic balm to treat a skin complaint, German university researchers said on Friday.
German doctors are prescribing too many addictive sleeping pills to alcoholics, too many strong tranquilizers to dementia patients and too many contraceptive pills with higher risks than others, according to a damning report released on Wednesday.
The German pharmaceutical company Bayer faces a US lawsuit on behalf of a teenager who died from a blood clot allegedly linked to its YAZ contraceptive.
German chemical and pharmaceutical group Bayer posted an 8.4-percent increase in first-quarter net profit on Thursday while signalling improvement in its agricultural products division.
German pharmaceutical giant Bayer said Monday it suffered a surprise fourth quarter loss owing to charges that included a write-down on its Schering brand and costs of US legal proceedings.
BASF, the world's biggest chemicals company, presented stunning 2010 results on Thursday, bouncing back from a slump in 2009 and giving an upbeat outlook for the current year despite problems in Libya.
German federal police and prosecutors are investigating suspected large-scale fraud around HIV medicines, according to public broadcaster NDR. Wholesalers allegedly sold subsidized medicines meant for Africa for huge profits in Germany.
Investigators in the German state of Saxony are looking into the pharmaceutical company Oncosachs on suspicion of paying bribes to doctors, according to a Saturday news report. The firm has denied any wrongdoing.
