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  Bayer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bayer's first major product was acetylsalicylic acid, a modification of salicylic acid or salicin, a folk remedy found in the bark of the willow.
Bayer executive Fritz ter Meer, sentenced to seven years in prison by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, was made head of the supervisory board of Bayer in 1956, after his release.
Bayer AG is involved in an ongoing controversy with French and Nova Scotian beekeepers over claimed pesticide kills of honeybees from its seed treatment insecticide imidacloprid.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bayer   (1690 words)

  
 Bayer
Bayer Animal Health estimates that the incidence of vision related reports over the past decade in the U.S. is 0.0008%, or 1 report per 122,414 feline patients treated.
Bayer has enlisted the input and expertise from a panel of veterinary ophthalmologists of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmology (ACVO) regarding the best means to objectively investigate this matter.
Bayer is thoroughly documenting and monitoring all reported cases in order to collect as much salient information as possible.
www.fda.gov /cvm/baytrilDDL.htm   (575 words)

  
 Bayer: Science For A Better Life - Homepage
The final TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen athlete competing at the European Athletics Championships finally won the medal the club at hoped for.
Bayer has a broad range of high-quality products and services.
Bayer supports the training of guide dogs for the blind in Brazil.
www.bayer.com   (131 words)

  
 Genzyme Molecular Oncology, Bayer Corporation Enter Genomics Collaboration
Bayer Corporation is a research-based company with major businesses in health care and life sciences, chemicals, and imaging technologies.
Bayer Corporation is investing $9 billion in capital expenditures and research and development from 1995 through the year 2000.
Bayer Corporation, with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pa., is a member of the worldwide Bayer Group, a $32 billion chemical and pharmaceutical company based in Leverkusen, Germany.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-05-1998/0000726224&EDATE=   (539 words)

  
 Bayer Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bayer and Co., recorded in his laboratory logbook that he had succeeded in acetylating salicylic acid into a chemically pure and stable form of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA).
Although the young Bayer researcher didn’t realize the significance of his achievement, in creating ASA he developed the active ingredient for the best-known and most frequently used medicine in the world: aspirin.
Bayer’s first operations in the United States date back to 1865, when the company purchased an interest in a coal tar dye plant in Albany, N.Y. The company gradually expanded to include agricultural products, dyestuffs, and a wide variety of chemical products.
www.bioanalytical.com /info/calendar/99/01bayer.htm   (210 words)

  
 BAYNEWS - The Bayer Press Server - New BayNews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In April 2005, Bayer had announced the initiation of a Phase III study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Trasylol in reducing blood loss and the need for transfusion in patients undergoing elective primary total hip replacement surgery.
Bayer is committed to further investment in the Trasylol franchise and is actively engaged in the research and development of a recombinant version of the product.
Bayer HealthCare, with sales of approximately 8.5 billion Euro in 2004, is one of the world's leading, innovative companies in the health care and medical products industry.
www.news.bayer.com /baynews/baynews.nsf/ID/6FBB5D9FF90115CBC12570D000507B5E?Open&ccm=000   (1361 words)

  
 BAYER CORPORATION BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Bayer MaterialScience, with NAFTA operations headquarters in Pittsburgh, is a global leader in key growth markets serving the automotive, comfort, engineering thermoplastics, insulation, coatings, adhesives and sealants industries.
Bayer HealthCare’s Diabetes Care Division, headquartered in Elkhart, Ind., is one of the world’s market leaders in blood glucose monitoring systems to help people with diabetes manage their disease both at home and on the go.
Bayer CropScience LP is the U.S. business of Bayer CropScience AG, one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant biotechnology.
www.newmaterials.com /news/2195.asp   (893 words)

  
 U.S. v. Bayer Corporation - Consent Decree
Defendant Bayer Corporation, its successors and assigns, shall conduct a consumer education program that includes dissemination of print advertisements and brochures as set forth in Appendices B, C and D. The cost of this consumer education program is estimated to be $1 million.
Defendant Bayer Corporation, shall, within thirty (30) days after the entry of this Consent Decree, provide a copy of the Commission's Order and a copy of this Consent Decree to each of its officers, and to each of its agents and employees responsible for the advertising or promotion of any nonprescription internal analgesic product.
Bayer Corporation shall fulfill all requests for one (1) to twenty-five (25) copies of the brochure, but may, at its own discretion, limit the number of brochures sent to an individual consumer to a total of twenty-five (25).
www.ftc.gov /os/2000/01/sterlingdecree.htm   (1133 words)

  
 Bayer Fellowship Homepage
The Bayer Fellowship Program supports basic research in inflammation, hemostasis, and blood conservation in surgery and the economics of transfusion and blood management.
For 14 years, the Bayer Fellowships have helped build a body of knowledge that has helped physicians provide care to surgical patients.
The Bayer Fellowship Program is open to anesthesiologists and cardiothoracic, orthopedic, and thoracic/oncologic surgeons at US institutions.
www.bayerfellowship.com /index.html   (98 words)

  
 Bayer AG infections and immune system informations: prevention and treatment. Appropriate Use of Antibiotics
Bayer AG infections and immune system informations: prevention and treatment.
Informative and educational measures aimed at both medical professionals and the public, ensuring a responsible use of antibiotics, are essential to limit the emergence of resistant bacteria.
To reduce the spread of infections and resistance, it is crucial to strictly maintain the basic hygiene rules, especially in hospitals.
www.infections.bayer.com /en/treatment/use   (206 words)

  
 Bayer Diagnostics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bayer HealthCare Diabetes Care is not affected by this transaction.
On June 1, 2004, the Diagnostics Division of Bayer HealthCare was divided into two entities - Bayer HealthCare Diabetes Care Division and Bayer HealthCare Diagnostics Division - to accelerate Bayer HealthCare's concentration on consumer health, and to afford both units greater operational flexibility in their respective markets.
Bayer Diabetes Care markets blood glucose monitoring systems directly to consumers and is headquartered in Tarrytown, NY, U.S.A. The Diagnostics Division headquartered in Tarrytown, NY, U.S.A., markets diagnostics systems for customers in hospital, large-scale laboratories and physician's offices.
www.bayerdiag.com   (160 words)

  
 Bayer Corporation, Pharmaceutical Division (CT)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Bayer Research Center was established in West Haven CT in 1988 as the North American research headquarters for the Pharmaceutical Division.
At the Bayer Research Center, scientists are dedicated to discovering and developing medicines for the treatment of diabetes, obesity, and cancer to improve people's lives worldwide.
The Bayer Research Center is currently undergoing an $83 million expansion and opened its Advanced Technology Center for molecular biology and high throughput screening in September of 2000.
www.acor.org /drugs/pipeline/companies/212504.profile   (479 words)

  
 Bayer Corporation Options Two Additional Proteins from Myriad Genetics
The proteins transferred to Bayer are based upon Myriad's identification of two new genes not previously implicated in dementia pathways.
Bayer selected the two proteins from among a number of proteins characterized by Myriad as interactors in dementia pathways.
The Bayer collaboration was renewed in December 1998 for an additional two years, through September 2002, bringing the total potential of the collaborations with Bayer to $137 million.
www.myriad.com /news/release/212168   (612 words)

  
 The Conference Board :: Bayer Corporation, Johnson & Johnson and S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Honored By ...
Bayer Corporation, based in Germany, is being honored for a program building the next generation of scientists and educating parents and students of everyday science.
Bayer Corporation, part of the worldwide Bayer Group, an international health care, nutrition and innovative materials group, is honored for its program, "Making Science Make Sense" - an award-winning initiative that advances science literacy through hands-on, inquiry-based science learning, employee volunteerism and public education.
Bayer's commitment stems from the fact that new technologies and concepts and increasing global market competition will continue to demand a workforce that is flexible, scientifically literate and equipped with the critical thinking, problem solving and team working skills fostered by a quality science education.
sev.prnewswire.com /banking-financial-services/20060105/NYTH12305012006-1.html   (1475 words)

  
 UNITED STATES v BAYER CORP - Legal Case Documents
Bayer aspirin is a well-known pain reliever, and the ads' depiction of young women is clearly in connection with muscle pain (a woman lifts a bike and then grabs her shoulder) and headache pain (a woman in a noisy office puts down the phone and rubs her temple).
Bayer's advertisements do not mention side effects and while they qualify the heart attack prevention claims by saying, "Just ask your doctor," this statement is ambiguous.
Defendant Bayer Corporation is an Indiana corporation with an office and place of business located within the District of New Jersey at 36 Columbia Road, Morristown, New Jersey 07960.
www.legalcasedocs.com /120/248/047.html   (1512 words)

  
 Bayer CropScience is one of the world´s leading innovative enterprises in crop protection, seeds, biotechnology and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bayer CropScience is one of the world´s leading innovative enterprises in crop protection, seeds, biotechnology and non-agricultural pest control.
To Bayer Cropscience - At Bayer CropScience, our Vision is to be the worldwide leading partner for the production of quality food, feed and fiber and to be a leading crop science company in providing innovative products like insecticides, fungicides and herbicides and combined solutions for agriculture and environmental health.
Bayer CropScience is one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant biotechnology.
www.bayercropscience.com   (320 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Large Scale Biology Corporation and Bayer CropScience Announce Research and Development Agreement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Corporate headquarters, molecular biology and product design laboratories are located in Vacaville, California, and the Company's bioprocess development and commercial-scale biomanufacturing facilities are located in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Bayer CropScience, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual sales of about EUR 6.0 billion, is one of the world's leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant biotechnology.
Bayer CropScience has a global workforce of about 19,000 and is represented in more than 120 countries, ensuring proximity to dealers and consumers.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=85663   (619 words)

  
 BAYER CORPORATION ENGINEERING POLYMERS FOR THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY
About Us 05 June 2001 - Bayer MaterialScience AG The Plastics and Polyurethanes Divisions of Bayer Corporation offer high-performance engineeringthermoplastics and polyurethane systems that are used in demanding applications in the medical industry.
Bayer Corporation's Plastics Division is headquartered in Pittsburgh and has resin manufacturingfacilities in Addyston, Ohio; Baytown, Texas; and New Martinsville, W.Va.; a polycarbonate filmmanufacturing facility in Berlin, Conn.; a compounding facility in Newark, Ohio; and a styrenics researchfacility in Springfield, Mass.
In addition, Bayer's polymers are used in a wide variety of other applications, including handles onsurgical equipment, contact- lens cases, diagnostic reaction cells and sterilizable laboratory animalbreeding cages.
www.newmaterials.com /news/2481.asp   (1510 words)

  
 Pharmaceutical Technology - Berkeley Biotechnology Plant owned by Bayer Corporation - USA
In August 2000, the Bayer Corporation was granted permission by the city of Berkeley to develop an additional 14 acres south of its 34-acre Multipurpose Biotechnology Plant in the city.
Kogenate FS is Bayer Corporation's latest formulation of Factor VIII recombinant protein, which is used to treat haemophilia.
The largest building of its type on the West Coast of America, Bayer's Berkeley plant is approximately 110,000ft² in size, of which 60,000 is dedicated to the manufacturing suites.
www.pharmaceutical-technology.com /projects/berkeley   (661 words)

  
 RedOrbit - Science - Bayer Corporation Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Its 'Making Science Make Sense(R)' Program With ...
MSMS is Bayer's award-winning, company-wide initiative that advances science literacy across the United States through hands- on, inquiry-based learning, employee volunteerism and public education.
Bayer Corporation, headquartered in Pittsburgh, is part of the worldwide Bayer Group, an international health care, nutrition and innovative materials group based in Leverkusen, Germany.
Bayer employs nearly 17,000 in North America with net North American sales of 8.4 billion euros in 2004.
www.redorbit.com /news/display/?id=145504&source=r_science   (519 words)

  
 Bayer AG - Annual Report 2002 - Award for Bayer Corporation
October 2002: Bayer’s U.S. subsidiary Bayer Corporation receives the prestigious Responsible Care Leadership Award of the American Chemistry Council in recognition of outstanding performance in environmental protection and occupational safety.
Continuous reductions in emissions, a low rate of occupational injuries, product stewardship measures and social commitment in the communities near Bayer’s sites were the most important points in the company’s favor.
Between 1996 and 2002, Bayer Corporation reduced pollutant emissions by 85 percent and cut waste volumes by 60 percent in the United States.
www.bayer.com /annualreport2002/news/award.html   (95 words)

  
 Bayer Progressive Product Stewardship
Bayer works diligently to facilitate responsible handling of our products throughout their life cycle, from research and development through production, packaging, distribution, storage, handling, recycling and disposal...
Bayer MaterialScience focuses on identifying and developing ways to reduce adverse impacts on health, safety, and the environment...
Bayer's management and employees work to assure safe handling at each stage of distribution, including customer sites, carriers, freight forwarders, warehouses, shippers and vendors.
www.baycareonline.com /pub_access/baycare_01.asp   (380 words)

  
 USA v. Bayer Corp.
At all times material herein, defendant Bayer Corporation has been engaged in the advertising, offering for sale, sale or distribution of Bayer aspirin products and other nonprescription internal analgesic products, in or affecting commerce, as "commerce" is defined in Section 4 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. § 44.
Since at least 1997, defendant Bayer Corporation has disseminated Internet advertisements relating to the use of Bayer aspirin products to prevent heart attacks and strokes, examples of which are attached as Exhibits B-13 and B-14.
Genuine Bayer Aspirin is the only leading brand of pain reliever that helps reduce the risk of recurrent stroke when taken regularly with a diet and exercise regimen.
jcomm.uoregon.edu /~tgleason/j385/Bayer.html   (2642 words)

  
 BAYER AG and BAYER CORPORATION v. Housey
On March 6, 2001, Bayer AG and Bayer Corporation (“Bayer”) filed a complaint seeking declaratory judgment of invalidity, unenforceability, and non-infringement of the Housey patents.
On April 16, 2001, Bayer filed a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure with respect to Housey’s counterclaim for infringement under § 271(g), arguing that the provision “applies only to methods of manufacture, and does not apply to [Housey’s] method patent claims.
         Bayer is liable as an infringer when it sells in the United States a pharmaceutical composition containing a substance determined to be an inhibitor or activator of a target protein by use either in the United States or abroad of the [Housey] United States patented methods.
www.ll.georgetown.edu /federal/judicial/fed/opinions/02opinions/02-1598.html   (4745 words)

  
 Bayer Corporation, Biological Products Business Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bayer Biological Products focuses our research on identifying proteins that occur naturally in the human body and developing these proteins as disease-fighting agents.
Our products, whether derived from human plasma, recombinant DNA technology or - as they are certain to be in the future - gene therapy - are a result of scientific and technological innovation designed to meet urgent, often life-threatening, and otherwise unmet medical needs.
For people with Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, also known as genetic emphysema, Bayer's Alpha 1 replacement therapy, Prolastin, is the only treatment available to help slow the progression of the disease.
www.acor.org /drugs/pipeline/companies/1797.profile   (293 words)

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