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• Bayer to Pay $796,500 in EPA Fines at Plant That Exploded

  BNET - 2008-12-23

  Bayer will pay just $796,500 in EPA fines for pollution caused by a Charleston, W.Va., plant that exploded in 2001. The fines are not related specifically to the explosion, but to inspections done by the FDA the year of the blast. The explosion killed one person, but was so massive...

  Tags: Bayer AG, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Government, Litigation, Government, Business Operations, Jim Edwards

• Bayer Sells Dog Tags for Diabetics

  BNET - 2008-12-16

  Bayer Diabetes Care is selling dog tags for youngsters with Type 1 diabetes. The tags are being sold as a trendy consciousness-raising item (even though the original meaning of "dog tag" was an ID necklace worn so that dead soldiers' corpses could be identified, and life expectancy for type 1...

  Tags: Bayer AG, Tag, Bayer Diabetes Care, Jonas, Strategy, Management, Jim Edwards

• Pharma Roundup: Bayer Boosts R&D, AstraZeneca Outsources, Titan Execs Leave, and More

  BNET - 2008-12-15

  Bayer boosts spending on research and development, AstraZeneca contracts with India's Infosys for IT support, Titan loses two execs, biotech acquisitions increase. by John Maas

  Tags: AstraZeneca Plc., Bayer AG, R&D, Outsource, Research & Development, Biotechnology, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, John Maas

• Bayer's Trasylol Killed Too Many People; Lawsuits Arrive

  BNET - 2008-12-03

  On the same day that news of a study of 49 randomized trials of Bayer's anti-bleeding drug Trasylol showed there was a higher risk of death than for alternative drugs, Bayer learned it was slapped with a lawsuit from a woman alleging her husband died because Trasylol was used in...

  Tags: Bayer AG, Lawsuit, Surgery, Trasylol, HealthDayNews Story, Strategy, Security, Management, Jim Edwards

• Healthcare Roundup: Reform "Integral" to Recovery, Bayer's $98M Payment, Hospital Inflation Down, and More

  BNET - 2008-11-30

  Healthcare reform is "integral" to economic recovery, Obama says; Bayer HealthCare pays a $98M settlement; hospital inflation is down slightly, but still high; and more. by David P. Hamilton

  Tags: Bayer AG, Integral, Hospital, Recovery, Health Care, Inflation, Obama, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton

• Ethics Problems Are Business as Usual at Bayer

  BNET - 2008-11-26

  Bayer will pay the Justice Department $97.5 million plus interest to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to a number of diabetic suppliers and caused those suppliers to submit false claims to Medicare. Here's the nut: Between 1998 and 2002, Bayer allegedly paid Liberty Medical Supply Inc., one of...

  Tags: Bayer AG, Ethics, Ethics Problem, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Jim Edwards

• Nektar Therapeutics Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-20

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions And your first question comes from the line of Sa'ar Yaniv from JP Morgan. Please proceed. Jennifer Ruddock Do you have a question? Operator Your line is open. Jennifer Ruddock Let us go to the next question please, Madge. Operator ...

  Tags: Nektar Therapeutics, Bayer AG, Patient, Cowen & Co., Call Transcript, Earnings, Seeking Alpha

• FDA Slams Bayer; Firm Has a History of Mismarketing OTC Medicines

  - 2008-10-29

  FDA Slams Bayer; Firm Has a History of Mismarketing OTC MedicinesRE: FDA Slams Bayer; Firm Has a History of Mismarketing OTC MedicinesFrom the National Reye's Syndrome FoundationAnother blatant problem is the mismarketing of Low-Dose aspirin products as 'baby' or 'children's' aspirin.From the Bayer Website; Does Bayer make a "baby aspirin"?Yes....

  Tags: Federal government, FDA, Bayer AG, National Reye, aspirin, baby aspirin, Syndrome Foundation

• Advertising Roundup: Google Ads Get Political, FDA Slaps Bayer for False Claims, and More

  BNET - 2008-10-28

  John Kerry urges Obama supporters to help by buying Google ads -- Senator John Kerry learned firsthand what happens when political opponents run successful smear campaigns, and he doesn't want Obama to suffer the same fate he did. Kerry is using his PAC to ask Obama supporters to buy Google...

  Tags: Google Inc., Bayer AG, FDA, Advertisement, Federal Government, Government, Lindsay Blakely

• FDA Slams Bayer; Firm Has a History of Mismarketing OTC Medicines

  BNET - 2008-10-28

  The FDA slammed Bayer with two warning letters today for allegedly unlawfully selling two unapproved aspirin products. It is not the first time Bayer's Consumer Health marketers have gone off the rails, raising questions about how professional -- or even scientific -- the company is when it comes to over-the-counter...

  Tags: Bayer AG, FDA, Product, Federal Government, Government, Jim Edwards

• 7 Drug Companies Explain How They Dodged (or Didn't) the Credit Crisis

  BNET - 2008-10-22

  Drug companies have been the eye of the storm in the recent liquidity crash. High profitability, high cashflow (and making products that people literally can't live without) have left them in a comfortable economic position compared to other consumer-oriented companies. Here's a selection from recent earnings calls...

  Tags: Asset, Security, Bayer AG, Financial, Bond, Pfizer Inc., Commercial Paper, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Jim Edwards

• Advertising Roundup: Oscar Ads, 'Diggable' Ads, Misleading Ads, and More

  BNET - 2008-10-09

  Oscars to allow movie ads -- Since the 1950s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has banned movie advertisements during the Oscars to avoid looking like it endorses particular films. Not anymore. Next year the Academy will let the movie promos in, albeit not without a slew of...

  Tags: Bayer AG, Advertisement, Lindsay Blakely

• 2008 Golden Triangle Award Winners Announced by IABC/Pittsburgh; Bayer Wins Best in Show; Point Park University Professor Receives Communicator Award

  - 2008-10-08

  PITTSBURGH, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 Golden Triangle Awards for outstanding work by professional communicators in Western Pennsylvania were presented tonight by IABC/Pittsburgh, the local chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators at the Power Center Ballroom on the campus of Duquesne University. The Best in...

  Tags: Bayer AG, FINANCE, Honor, MARKETING, SOFTWARE, University of Pittsburgh

• Odds May Be Against a Pfizer-Bayer Deal

  BNET - 2008-09-09

  The chatter in Europe today is the rumor that Pfizer may be interested in acquiring Bayer. Bayer's stock is trading up on the news. It's an interesting prospect. Pfizer's stock is in the dumpster and won't start looking up until its pipeline starts to revive after 2011....

  Tags: Bayer AG, Pfizer Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Research & Development, Branding, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Marketing, Jim Edwards

• Bayer Faces PR Damage Over Mass Bee Deaths

  - 2008-08-31

  Bayer Faces PR Damage Over Mass Bee DeathsWelcome to MyHealth-forumI could be out and enjoying the summer by skipping through the woods for days at a time, I believe others should behave in a similar manner and be inspired by the biopharmaceutical companies and what they have done and continue...

  Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Bayer AG, public relations

• Top 10 Weirdest Pharma Stories of the Month

  BNET - 2008-08-29

  Sometimes I come across items that aren't important enough to count as news but are nonetheless too strange to ignore. Thus, I give you the top 10 weirdest drug stories for August: The connection between O.J. and Preparation H. Ever wonder why the orange juice in your...

  Tags: Bayer AG, Doc, Gilead, Gender And Diversity, Sales Strategy, Human Resources, Sales, Jim Edwards

• Bayer Faces PR Damage Over Mass Bee Deaths

  BNET - 2008-08-29

  Bayer could be facing a damaging PR issue if separate legal actions in Washington and Germany unearth evidence that the company's pesticide division was responsible for "colony collapse disorder," the unexplained mass death of honeybees worldwide that happened this year and last. Most of the attention that...

  Tags: Bayer AG, Bee, Public Relations, Branding, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jim Edwards

• German keeper Adler out of Belgium match

  - 2008-08-14

  BERLIN AFP — Germany's keeper Rene Adler will not play against Belgium on August 20 at Nuremberg because of a shoulder injury, his club Bayer Leverkusen said on Thursday. The 23-year-old keeper was hurt during training and suffered bruising, the club added. Adler will also miss the first day...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG, Belgium, Germany

• MEDRAD Adds Multi Vendor Service to ISO 13485:2003 Certification

  - 2008-06-24

  MEDRAD, INC., announced today that its Multi Vendor Service was added to MEDRAD's ISO 13485:2003 certification, making it one of only two major providers of ultrasound transducer and MRI coil repair services with the certification. Multi Vendor Service achieved this new certification by demonstrating to the International Organization for...

  Tags: Bayer AG, Benefits, FINANCE, HEALTHCARE, industry, ISO, Quality, SOFTWARE, Strategy

• Bayer Animal Health Introduces Credo™ SC Insecticide

  - 2008-06-09

  A New Addition to Your Darkling Beetle Arsenal

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