Bayer in Medical News

AUDIO from Medialink, Bayer Healthcare and Onyx Pharmaceuticals: Facts About Hepatitis

NEW YORK, May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- How much do you know about hepatitis? Here's more on the importance of liver health and education. Listen to this report from Bayer Healthcare and Onyx Pharmaceuticals at: http://inr.mediaseed.tv/oneClip_C/?feed=Ybx9S3lY7r__59P8wyiGqelU6PdFR6h9 Reg...

Now Available: Bayer Diabetes Care's CONTOUR(R) Meters in Midnight Blue and Orange Burst

TARRYTOWN, N.Y., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer Diabetes Care announced the introduction of two bold new colors to their line of CONTOUR(R) Color blood glucose meters -- Midnight Blue and Orange Burst -- that will provide people with diabetes more color options so their meter fits their own style. ...

J&J, Schering-Plough, Novartis, Bayer vie for Top Honors at the Premier OTC / Healthcare Ad Awards

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- OTC Perspectives - a new division within the leading pharmaceutical conference and consulting company DTC Perspectives Inc. - has announced the finalists for the 2009 OTC National Advertising Awards. Among the leading healthcare brands named as finalist...

Nick Jonas and Bayer Diabetes Care Launch Creativity Contest to Encourage Kids With Diabetes to Express Their Simple Win

Three Grand Prize Winners Will Meet Nick Jonas TARRYTOWN, N.Y., April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer Diabetes Care and music sensation Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers invite kids and teens with diabetes to enter the Bayer "Express Your Simple Win Creativity Contest" online for a chance to meet Ni...

Podcast from Medialink, Bayer Healthcare LLC and WomenHeart: WomenHeart - Strong @Heart

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Though one in three women in this country has some form of heart disease, women are still not receiving the same in-hospital treatment that men do for heart attacks and as a result, may be more likely to die. (Please copy and paste the following link into you...

Hagens Berman Files Class Action Against Bayer Healthcare Over Misleading Marketing Campaign

SEATTLE, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of consumers filed a proposed nationwide class-action lawsuit earlier this week against Bayer Healthcare LLC, a subsidiary of Bayer AG (FRA: BAY), alleging the pharmaceutical giant skirted FDA requirements in marketing two aspirin-based drugs. (Logo...

Photos: Bayer Names New U.S. CEO

Greg Babe to Head Bayer Corporation Attila Molnar to Retire After 30 Years of Service PITTSBURGH, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The Management Board of Bayer AG announced today that Greg Babe will become President and CEO of Bayer Corporation and the Senior Bayer Represen...

Barr and Bayer Sign Supply and Licensing Agreements for Launch of Generic Yasmin(R) and Yaz(R) Oral Contraceptives

- Barr Plans to Launch Generic Yasmin(R) on or before July 1, 2008 - Barr Plans to Launch Generic Yaz(R) on or before July 1, 2011 - Bayer to Continue Appeal of Yasmin(R) District Court Decision MONTVALE, N.J., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: BRL )...

ACT Biotech Acquires Clinical and Early Stage Oncology Portfolio Licenses From Bayer Healthcare

NGN Capital leads $12 Million in Series A First Tranche Financing SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- NGN Capital announced today the formation of ACT Biotech Inc., a new company dedicated to developing and commercializing targeted oral cancer drugs. ACT Biotech has entered in...

United Nations Environment Programme and Bayer Corporation Announce North American Winners of International Children's Painting Competition

First and Second Place Winners Hail from San Francisco Bay Area, Northern New Jersey WASHINGTON, April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cindy Liu, a fifth-grader at the Harker School in San Jose, Calif., and Connie Yu, a seventh-grader at John Adams Middle School in E...

60 Minutes to Report on Dangers of Trasylol: Cory Watson Crowder & DeGaris Involved in Litigation Against Pharmaceutical Giant Bayer AG

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Cory Watson Crowder & DeGaris, P.C. (http://www.cwcd.com ), has filed lawsuits against Bayer AG on behalf of plaintiffs throughout the United States, who allegedly suffered permanent kidney damage after being given Trasylol(R) -- a Bayer-manufactured ...

Genzyme and Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany to Present New Data on Alemtuzumab in Multiple Sclerosis at ECTRIMS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and BERLIN /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genzyme Corporation and Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany announce that important, new clinical data will be presented this weekend from two studies regarding alemtuzumab use in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the 23rd Congress of ...

IVCC launches groundbreaking insecticide projects with Bayer and Syngenta

The Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) has embarked upon the next phase of its initial five year strategy with the launch of the first tranche of funded projects to develop new public health mosquito control products. The three projects, with partners Bayer CropScience and Syngenta, comp...

Test for Esophageal Reflux Licensed to Bayer by University

A new test for esophageal reflux disease developed by a Wake Forest University Health Sciences (WFUHS) otolaryngologist has been licensed to Bayer HealthCare’s Diagnostics Division by WFUHS.// The test, which detects the presence of human pepsin 3b in a patient’s saliva, was developed by Jamie K...

Genomatix Licensed By Bayer Healthcare

Genomatix is a microarray platform which is now licensed by Bayer HealthCare. It enables biologists and bio-informaticians to analyze chip raw data//. It employs the latest genomic annotation. It combines both literature and pathway mining in a single coherent system. ‘After several succes...

Dow Acquires Wolff Walsrode from Bayer

The Dow Chemical Company and the Bayer Group today announced the closing of Dow's acquisition of Wolff Walsrode. The purchase price of EUR 540 million (approximately USD 725 million) includes a cash component and the assumption of financial debt and pension commitments. Following regulatory cleara...

FDA Approves New 3000 IU Vial Size for Kogenate(R) FS, antihemophilic factor (recombinant)

... WAYNE, N.J., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S....d, Vice President and General Manager, Hematology, bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals. For additiona...in the United States has hemophilia. About bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. ...

Micromet, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...cromet has entered into an option, collaboration and license agreement with bayer Schering Pharma AG under which bayer Schering Pharma was granted an exclusive option to license a specified BiTE...

BioMed Realty Trust Commemorates Five-Year Anniversary as a Public Company

... 2009. On July 23, 2009, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , the company's fourth largest tenant, received a $20 million milestone payment from bayer Healthcare for initiation of a Phase III clinical trial. On May 4, 2009, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , the company's sixth largest tenant, e...

Sagent Pharmaceuticals Announces Launch of First Two Oncolytic Products: Fludarabine Phosphate for Injection, USP and Epirubicin Hydrochloride Injection

.... About Fludarabine Phosphate for Injection, USP Fludarabine phosphate for injection, USP (generic equivalent to Fludara(R), distributed by bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals) is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who have not responded to ...

Gen-Probe Reports Financial Results for Second Quarter 2009

...nse revenue ($0.20 of EPS) that was recorded in the first quarter associated with the settlement of Gen-Probe's patent infringement litigation against bayer (now Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics). By comparison, the Company's product sales, total revenues, net income and EPS in the first six months of 2009 ...

Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers to Address the National Press Club on August 24

...areness for various diabetes programs. As a diabetes ambassador with bayer Diabetes Care, Jonas has launched a national awareness campaign to provide ...o achieve small, everyday victories while managing their disease. Nick and bayer created dog tags as a symbol of support for people with diabetes, increase ...

Motion Filed to Consolidate Yasmin/YAZ Litigation in Toledo, Ohio

...do, Ohio. The Defendants in the cases are bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation and other bayer related companies. The FDA issued warning letters ... The FDA issued a second warning letter to bayer on October 3, 2008, for another advertisement, thi...

Survey Reveals Women Aren't Doing All They Can to Support Breast Health

..., Vice President of Marketing and New Business for bayer Consumer Care. "Last year One A Day Women's woke w...elovich, part of The Futures Company, on behalf of bayer HealthCare. Results were obtained through telephon... About One A Day Multivitamins bayer Consumer Care's complete line of One A Day product...

EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Assigns all Its Assets to Joseph F. Finn, Jr., C.P.A. for the Benefit of Its Creditors

...to its MRI imaging business, including a commercial MRI imaging drug in Europe, (MS-325), formerly marketed as Vasorist(R), gadofosveset trisodium, by bayer Schering Pharma.) EPIX also has collaborations with several leading pharmaceutical and research foundations. The intellectual property, regu...

Nexavar in Combination with Chemotherapy Shown to Extend Progression-Free Survival in Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer

...RYVILLE, Calif., July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals and Onyx Pharmaceutical... "Based on these encouraging data, Onyx and bayer are evaluating various strategies for Nexavar in b...l 1.866.NEXAVAR (1.866.639.2827). About bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. ...

MEDRAD Recognized by the Premier Healthcare Alliance for Commitment to Healthcare Quality Improvement and Innovation

...nia, in the United States. MEDRAD is a business of bayer Medical Care. More company information is available at www.medrad.com. bayer HealthCare The bayer Group is a global enterprise with core competencie...

Debate Over Advertising Prescription Drugs to Consumers Goes Online at New ProCon.org Website

...video gallery, a reader survey, and a listing of all sources used. Some interesting information presented on the website includes: * bayer Pharmaceuticals sold heroin as an over the counter cough remedy in the early 1900s. * The Food and Drug Administration began regulating presc...

Technology Collaborative Launches Online Game to Exercise Brain Power of People with Multiple Sclerosis

...ir brain power. The Collaborative, an alliance of bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Microsoft, and the Nat...nce between the National MS Society, Microsoft and bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, all of whom have come ... About the Participating Organizations bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. ...

Bayer HealthCare Announces Recipients of 2009 International Hemophilia Nursing Fellowship

... BOSTON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- bayer HealthCare announced today the recipients of the 2...iving with the disorder. We appreciate the support bayer has provided to this program to make it a success....e president and therapeutic area head, Hematology, bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals. "These fellowships pro...

Bayer HealthCare Awards $2.5 Million to Advance Hemophilia Research and Improve Patient Care

... BOSTON, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- bayer HealthCare announced today that it awarded 20 indi...s funding totaling nearly $2.5 million through the bayer Hemophilia Awards Program (BHAP). As the largest p...cal investigators, fellows in training and others, bayer is helping to develop the next generation of hemop...

Analysis of Four Large Post-Marketing Surveillance Studies Describe Clinical Effects of Sucrose-Formulated Recombinant Factor VIII

... Clinical Development, and head, Hematology Group, bayer Schering Pharma. "It is particularly noteworthy th...le around the world have hemophilia A. About bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. is the U.S.-based ...

Burg Simpson Files Yasmin/Yaz Lawsuits

...d four lawsuits this week in federal court against bayer alleging that Bayer's oral contraceptives Yasmin a...eath in young women. The lawsuits allege that bayer failed to warn the women and their physicians of t... 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent bayer a warning letter objecting to its television ads c...

Bayer HealthCare Launches Hemophilia Self-Infusion Training Program

... WAYNE, N.J., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals launched the BayCuff(TM... on the child's level of understanding. I applaud bayer for making this innovative program available to th...training program, being distributed exclusively by bayer HealthCare to healthcare providers, is available t...

New Report Just Published: World Multiple Myeloma Therapeutics Market Report

...ecular Antibody Technology II-46 US House of Representatives Sanction the Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act II-46 bayer and Cell Therapeutics Enter into Mutual Agreement II-47 Bristol-Myers to Take Over Kosan Biosciences II-47 Bristol and PDL BioPharma Enter int...

Global Autoimmune Disease Therapeutics Market to Reach $50 Billion by 2015, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts

...herapeutic needs not addressed by existing drugs. The global marketplace is characterized by participants such as Abbott Laboratories, Amgen Inc., bayer Schering Pharma AG, Biogen Idec Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Elan Corporation, plc, Eli Lilly And Company, F. ...

Bayer CropScience and Monsanto Sign Cross Licensing Agreement on Herbicide Tolerance Traits in Rapeseed/Canola

...IM, Germany and ST. LOUIS, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- bayer CropScience AG and Monsanto Company have agreed to...erms of this global agreement, Monsanto will grant bayer CropScience access to Monsanto's Genuity(TM) Roundup Ready(R) canola trait and bayer CropScience will grant Monsanto access to its Libe...

Phase 1 Study Initiated with Micromet Anti-GM-CS Human Antibody MT203

...cromet has entered into an option, collaboration and license agreement with bayer Schering Pharma AG under which bayer Schering Pharma was granted an exclusive option to license a specified BiTE...

Men with Low Testosterone See Multiple Doctors Before Being Diagnosed; Many Dissatisfied with Current Treatment Options

...rug Administration approval. Testosterone undecanoate was first approved in Europe in 2003 and is now marketed as Nebido in more than 80 countries by bayer Schering Pharma AG. ABOUT HYPOGONADISM Hypogonadism, also known as low testosterone, is a common yet largely under-recognized and under-tr...

MEDRAD Introduces Manage.Report - Advances Evidence-Based Decision Making

...nia, in the United States. MEDRAD is a business of bayer Medical Care. More company information is available at www.medrad.com . bayer HealthCare The bayer Group is a global enterprise with core competencie...