It's not news that Bayer, the venerable German drug company, made its first fortunes in the late 1890s when it commercialized both aspirin and heroin as cough, cold and pain remedies. Many people ...

There was a time when mothers gave their babies opium, people bought hallucinogens at the local bar, and anxious patriots sent hypodermic needles and cocaine to soldiers as a present. It was ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. 4) Bayer is much more than aspirin, vitamins and heroin. Bayer describes itself as a global enterprise in health care and agriculture.

No single drug may be more historically associated with its manufacturer than Bayer’s Aspirin. The drug was a commercial pharmaceutical “hit” that put Bayer, originally a dyestuff ...

Though the key ingredient in aspirin has been used by humans for millennia, it was Bayer that transformed the chemical into a ...

Bayer & Co. produced a similar chemical ... influenza pandemic and its transformation into a widely used drug. It also looks at aspirin’s modern uses as a treatment for blood clots, rheumatoid ...

but the aspirin-maker’s pharmaceutical portfolio is also facing strain. Some of Bayer’s top products, including the anticoagulant drug Xarelto and the eye medication Eylea, are under patent ...

Bayer does have a drug pipeline to help offset patent losses ... Consumers continue to pay a premium for Aspirin, Aleve, and other over-the-counter products even though strong generic competition ...

The first-ever synthetic drug went on to become one of the world’s most successful medicines. On Aspirin’s 125th birthday its maker, Bayer, is in no mood for schnapps. In the run-up to the ...