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Pharmaceutical giant Bayer plunges 11% after landmark $289 million weedkiller...
Shares in Bayer dove more than 11% Monday after a landmark ruling against Monsanto, a US agriculture giant owned by the German pharma giant. Monsanto was ordered to pay $289 million to a groundskeeper...
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Bayer's Monsanto is being sued by 8,000 plaintiffs for not disclosing alleged...
The number of lawsuits against Bayer, the manufacturer of Roundup and Ranger Pro, has risen from 5,200 to 8,000. The chargers were initially brought before Bayer because they failed to warn of...
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A startup with ties to Bayer has inked a $122 million deal to make lab-grown...
Ginkgo Bioworks, a startup known for its work turning bacteria into consumer goods, is partnering with marijuana producer Cronos to make lab-grown cannabis. The $122-million deal, announced this week,...
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A judge has slashed the amount Monsanto has to pay in a lawsuit over a common...
A jury recently ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million in damages to a plaintiff who alleged that his cancer was the result of using Roundup, the company's popular herbicide. On Wednesday, a California...
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The FDA just approved a drug that targets cancers based on DNA, rather than...
The FDA on Monday approved a new cancer treatment in an unconventional way: not by tumor type, but rather by the genetic mutation the drug targets. The drug, Vitrakvi, was developed by Loxo Oncology...
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Amazon's playbook for upending healthcare is getting clearer, and...
Amazon is getting into the healthcare business. Every move has sent pharmacy and wholesaler stocks into a tizzy. But it remains to be seen what impact this has on drugmakers. We spoke to more than...
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Pharma execs are bullish on digital therapeutics (BAYRY, RHHBY, NVS, RMD)
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Bayer plunges after jury finds its Roundup weedkiller caused cancer
Bayer's shares dropped 12% after a jury found a customer developed cancer from using its Roundup weed killer. Another jury previously found that Bayer's Monsanto unit failed to warn customers of the...
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Pharma giant Bayer is making a bet that one day we might be able to use stem...
The pharmaceutical giant Bayer just made an investment through its Leaps by Bayer investment arm in Khloris, a company looking to use stem-cell-based vaccines to prevent and treat cancer. Khloris is...
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The weed-killing chemical in a Monsanto lawsuit was found in beer and wine....
A 2019 report suggests that certain beers and wines contain traces of a weed-killing chemical. The chemical in question, known as glyphosate, has been tentatively linked to cancer, though many...
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A jury says that a common weed-killer chemical at the heart of a $2 billion...
A California jury ordered Monsanto to pay $2 billion in damages after determining that the company's popular weed-killer, Roundup, was a "substantial factor" in causing a couple's cancer. Roundup's...
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The weed-killing chemical at the heart of a $2 billion lawsuit may be linked...
A Northern California couple was awarded more than $2 billion in a lawsuit against Monsanto, the agrochemical company now owned by Bayer. The couple argued that a widely-used agricultural pesticide...
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An environmental watchdog found traces of weed-killer in Cheerios and Nature...
A new round of tests from the Environmental Working Group found traces of the weed-killer glyphosate in 6 types of Cheerios, 14 Nature Valley products, and Fiber One's oatmeal raisin soft-baked...
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Bayer is rallying after a judge slashed a payout over its cancer-linked...
Bayer's stock climbed as much as 3% on Tuesday after a federal judge slashed a payout over its Roundup weed killer by nearly 70% to about $25 million. A San Francisco jury determined Roundup caused a...
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A 'Chef's Table' star unveiled a purple pea that has people 'flipping out'...
"Chef's Table" star and James Beard award-winning chef Dan Barber thinks mass-produced vegetables have been "dumbed down" to the point where they all look and taste the same. Barber said the food...
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A judge just massively cut a $2 billion jury payout to a couple who claimed...
Bayer slashed a $2 billion jury award by more than 95% on Thursday as payouts over its cancer-linked Roundup weedkiller continue to mount. The German pharmaceuticals giant has successfully reduced...
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Adidas, Louis Vuitton, and L'Oreal just plunged after the fall in the yuan —...
European Stocks crashed on Monday after China's currency hit an 11-year low, in retaliation for Trump's added tariffs. Stocks that were tied to China took a major hit. Here are five of some...
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Bayer shares are soaring on a report that it wants to pay $8 billion to...
Bayer shares soared as much as 11% on Friday. Bloomberg reported that the German company has proposed to pay $8 billion to settle more than 18,000 US lawsuits on its glyphosate-based weedkiller...
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Bayer gets help from Donald Trump as US regulators veto warnings its Roundup...
The Trump administration is refusing to approve product labels warning glyphosate — the active ingredient in Roundup weedkiller — is a carcinogen. "It is irresponsible to require labels on products...
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Bayer says it's not putting its global media business up for review, after...
German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer and MediaCom denied that Bayer is putting its global media business up for review, contradicting an earlier Business Insider report. A source with...
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