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65-451: Miami Country Day School began in 1938 as an elementary boarding school for boys and was founded by Luther B. Sommers and C.W. Abele. In the early years, the school was known as The Miami Country Day and Resident School for Boys. Through the 1950s and 1960s, day students were enrolled. In the 1970s, Miami Country Day became co-educational and the boarding program was phased out. The boarding rooms were converted into classrooms to make space for

130-469: A 4 tier parking garage and the over 40,000 square foot Center for the Arts housing The John Davies Theater. Miami Country Day School is accredited or a member of the following organizations: 25°52′27.34″N 80°11′2.17″W  /  25.8742611°N 80.1839361°W  / 25.8742611; -80.1839361 Junior Engineering Technical Society Junior Engineering Technical Society ( JETS )

195-431: A German conglomerate formed from the merger of six chemical companies: BASF , Bayer , Hoechst (including Cassella and Kalle & Co.  [ de ] ), Agfa , Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, and Chemische Fabrik vorm. Weiler Ter Meer . In the 1930s, Gerhard Domagk , director of Bayer's Institute of Pathology and Bacteriology, working with chemists Fritz Mietzsch and Joseph Klarer, discovered prontosil ,

260-411: A credential for admission application to an engineering college. The tests were administered by local JETS-affiliated engineering societies, who might also present awards to the top students. JETS hosts their annual TEAMS competition. TEAMS is an annual theme-based competition for students in grades 9-12, aimed at giving them the opportunity to discover engineering and how they can make a difference in

325-498: A fee of $ 1.02 billion. In August 2019, the business acquired the ≈60% of BlueRock Therapeutics it didn't already own for up to $ 600 million. In August 2020, Bayer announced it had acquired KaNDy Therapeutics Ltd, helping to boost its female healthcare business, for $ 425 million. In October, Bayer agreed to acquire Asklepios BioPharmaceuticals for $ 2 billion upfront. In June 2021, the company announced it acquire Noria Therapeutics Inc. and PSMA Therapeutics Inc. gaining rights to

390-576: A large international student community. With 47% of its students born abroad (and more than 75% of parents born abroad), MCDS is one of the most international schools in Miami and features an extensive language department. MCDS's team for the Junior Engineering Technical Society TEAMS competition has, for two consecutive years, ranked nationally. In 2007 MCDS was the 1st-place winner of the competition and in 2008

455-548: A larger area in Elberfeld in 1866. Friedrich Bayer (1851–1920), the son of the company's founder, was a chemist and joined the company in 1873. After the death of his father in 1880, the company became a joint-stock company, Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co, also known as Elberfelder Farbenfabriken. A further expansion in Elberfeld was impossible, so the company moved to the village Wiesdorf at Rhein and settled in

520-617: A lung irritant against British forces. In 1916, Bayer scientists discovered suramin , an anti- parasite drug that is still sold by Bayer under the brand name Germanin. The formula of suramin was kept secret by Bayer for commercial reasons, but it was elucidated and published in 1924 by Ernest Fourneau and his team at the Pasteur Institute . It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines . In 1925, Bayer became part of IG Farben ,

585-405: A number of cancer-based investigational compounds based on actinium-225 . In September 2015, Bayer spun out its $ 12.3 billion materials science division into a separate, publicly traded company called Covestro in which it retained about a 70% interest. Bayer spun out the division because it had relatively low profit margins compared to its life science divisions (10.2%, compared with 24.9% for

650-451: A regional competition; the scores at that date determine the standings at the regional, state, and national levels. There are six school divisions, one home division, one group division, and two levels (9th/10th-grade level & 11th/12th-grade level). JETS, in conjunction with Power Engineering magazine , has annually awarded a $ 5,000 scholarship to at least one student to pursue a college engineering education since 2007. In 2006, JETS

715-501: A variety of product lines including Alka-Seltzer , Flintstones vitamins and One-A-Day vitamins, and Cutter insect repellent . Along with the purchase of Cutter, Bayer acquired Cutter's Factor VIII business. Factor VIII, a clotting agent used to treat hemophilia , was produced, at the time, by processing donated blood. In the early days of the AIDS epidemic , people with hemophilia were found to have higher rates of AIDS, and by 1983

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780-620: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bayer Bayer AG ( English: / ˈ b aɪ . ər / , commonly pronounced / ˈ b eɪ ər / ; German: [ˈbaɪɐ] ) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world. Headquartered in Leverkusen , Bayer's areas of business include: pharmaceuticals, consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals , seeds and biotechnology products. The company

845-527: Is a component of the EURO STOXX 50 stock market index. Bayer was founded in 1863 in Barmen as a partnership between dye salesman Friedrich Bayer (1825–1880) and dyer Friedrich Weskott (1821–1876). The company was established as a dyestuffs producer, but the versatility of aniline chemistry led Bayer to expand its business into other areas. In 1899, Bayer launched the compound acetylsalicylic acid under

910-426: Is an example of a General Medicine business unit. Bayer Pharma produces the birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin . Both pills use a newer type of progestin hormone called drospirenone in combination with estrogen. Yaz is advertised as a treatment for premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and moderate acne. Other key products include the cancer drug Nexavar , the multiple sclerosis drug betaferon / betaseron and

975-691: Is located in St. Louis , Missouri , United States . Bayer CropScience Limited is the Indian subsidiary of Bayer AG. It is listed on the Indian stock exchanges ; the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India , and has a market capitalization of $ 2 billion. Bayer BioScience, headquartered in Hyderabad, India , has about 400 employees, and has research, production, and an extensive sales network spread across India . Before

1040-430: Is still sold by Bayer. Other commonly known products initially commercialized by Bayer include heroin , phenobarbital , polyurethanes , and polycarbonates . In 1925, Bayer merged with five other German companies to form IG Farben , creating the world's largest chemical and pharmaceutical company. The first sulfonamide and the first systemically active antibacterial drug, forerunner of antibiotics , Prontosil ,

1105-491: The Bundesliga football club Bayer 04 Leverkusen . Bayer AG was founded as a dyestuffs factory in 1863 in Barmen (later part of Wuppertal ), Germany, by Friedrich Bayer and his partner, Johann Friedrich Weskott, a master dyer. Bayer was responsible for the commercial tasks. Fuchsine and aniline became the company's most important products. The headquarters and most production facilities moved from Barmen to

1170-538: The Commonwealth of Independent States countries such as Russia , Ukraine , Kazakhstan , Belarus , and others. On 28 August 2008, an explosion occurred at the Bayer CropScience facility at Institute, West Virginia , United States . A runaway reaction ruptured a tank and the resulting explosion killed two employees. The ruptured tank was close to a methyl isocyanate tank which was undamaged by

1235-470: The United States between 2013 and 2016. A Bayer spokesperson said that the largest investments will be made to expand the production of its herbicide Liberty. Liberty is an alternative to Monsanto's product, Roundup , which are both used to kill weeds. In 2016, as part of the wholesale corporate restructuring, Bayer CropScience became one of the three major divisions of Bayer AG, reporting directly to

1300-693: The 2016 restructuring, Bayer HealthCare comprised a further four subdivisions: Bayer Schering Pharma, Bayer Consumer Care, Bayer Animal Health and Bayer Medical Care. As part of the corporate restructuring, Animal Health was moved into its own business unit, leaving the division with the following categories; Allergy, Analgesics, Cardiovascular Risk Prevention, Cough & Cold, Dermatology, Foot Care, Gastrointestinals, Nutritionals and Sun Care. Bayer Consumer Care manages Bayer's OTC medicines portfolio. Key products include analgesics such as Bayer Aspirin and Aleve , food supplements Redoxon and Berocca , and skincare products Bepanthen and Bepanthol. Women's healthcare

1365-678: The Bayer group within IG Farben conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz and at the Mauthausen concentration camp . In one study of an anaesthetic, the company paid RM 170 per person for the use of 150 female inmates of Auschwitz. A Bayer employee wrote to Rudolf Höss , the Auschwitz commandant: "The transport of 150 women arrived in good condition. However, we were unable to obtain conclusive results because they died during

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1430-573: The Belgian biotech company Plant Genetic Systems became part of Bayer through the Aventis acquisition. Also in 2002, Bayer AG acquired the Dutch seed company Nunhems, which at the time was one of the world's top five seed companies. In 2006, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that Bayer CropScience's LibertyLink genetically modified rice had contaminated the U.S. rice supply. Shortly after

1495-807: The CDC had identified contaminated blood products as a source of infection. According to the New York Times , this was "one of the worst drug-related medical disasters in history". Companies, including Bayer, developed new ways to treat donated blood with heat to decontaminate it, and these new products were introduced early in 1984. In 1997, Bayer and the other three makers of such blood products agreed to pay $ 660 million to settle cases on behalf of more than 6,000 hemophiliacs infected in United States. But in 2003, documents emerged showing that Cutter had continued to sell unheated blood products in markets outside

1560-468: The JETS team placed 20th in their division. The following sports are offered to boys at Miami Country Day School: The following sports are offered to girls at Miami Country Day School: It is located on 21 acres (85,000 m), which includes a 25 yard by 25 meter Aquatic Center and new Athletic fields and gymnasium with synthetic turf. A state of the art Media and resources center with a broadcast studio,

1625-862: The Nobel committee had awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize to a German pacifist, Carl von Ossietzky . IG Farben , Bayer's parent company, used slave labour in factories it built in Nazi concentration camps , most notably in the Monowitz concentration camp (known as Auschwitz III), part of the Auschwitz camp complex in German-occupied Poland. By 1943, almost half of IG Farben's 330,000-strong workforce consisted of slave labour or conscripts, including 30,000 Auschwitz prisoners. Helmuth Vetter , an Auschwitz camp physician, SS captain and employee of

1690-736: The Radiology Business Unit which markets contrast-enhanced diagnostic imaging equipment together with the necessary contrast agents. In addition to internal R&D, Bayer has participated in public–private partnerships . One example in the area of non-clinical safety assessment is the InnoMed PredTox program. Another is the Innovative Medicines Initiative of EFPIA and the European Commission . Bayer Chemicals AG (with

1755-524: The U.S. and Canadian trademark rights to "Bayer" and the Bayer cross, as well as the ownership of the Aspirin trademark in Canada. In 2004, Bayer HealthCare acquired the over-the-counter pharmaceutical division of Roche . In March 2008, Bayer HealthCare announced an agreement to acquire the portfolio and OTC division of privately owned Sagmel, Inc., a US-based company that markets OTC medications in most of

1820-565: The US until 1985, including in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan and Argentina, to offload a product they were unable to sell in Europe and the US; they also continued manufacturing the unheated product for several months. Bayer said it did this because some countries were doubtful about the efficacy of the new product. Bayer has been involved in other controversies regarding its drug products. In

1885-472: The United States alone for prevention of cardiovascular events. It is on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines , the most important medications needed in a basic health system . There is an unresolved controversy over the roles played by Bayer scientists in the development of aspirin. Arthur Eichengrün , a Bayer chemist, said he was the first to discover an aspirin formulation that did not have

1950-471: The United States, Canada and several other countries. In the United States and Canada, Bayer's assets and trademarks, including the well-known Bayer cross, were acquired by Sterling Drug , a predecessor of Sterling Winthrop and were not reclaimed until 1994. Throughout the war, Bayer was involved in production and development of various chemical weapons. In 1914, Bayer manufactured dianisidine chlorosulfate for use in 105 mm artillery shell, intended as

2015-508: The acquisition bid, seeking a higher price. In September 2016, Monsanto agreed to a $ 66 billion offer by Bayer. In order to receive regulatory approval, Bayer agreed to divest a significant amount of its current agricultural assets to BASF in a series of deals. On 21 March 2018 the deal was approved by the European Union, and it was approved in the United States on 20 May 2018. The sale closed on 7 June 2018. The Monsanto brand

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2080-803: The agriculture business and 27.5% for healthcare) and because the business required high levels of investment to maintain its growth, and to more clearly focus its efforts and identity in the life sciences. Covestro shares were first offered on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in October 2015. Effective January 2016 following the spinout of Covestro, Bayer rebranded itself as a life sciences company, and restructured into three divisions and one business unit: Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health, Crop Science, and Animal Health. In May 2016, Bayer offered to buy U.S. biotechnology company Monsanto for $ 62 billion. Shortly after Bayer's offer, Monsanto rejected

2145-488: The area of the alizarin producer Leverkus and Sons . A new city, Leverkusen , was founded there in 1930 and became home to Bayer AG's headquarters. The company's corporate logo, the Bayer cross, was introduced in 1904, consisting of the word BAYER written vertically and horizontally, sharing the Y and enclosed in a circle. An illuminated version of the logo is a landmark in Leverkusen. Bayer's first major product

2210-514: The blood-clotting drug, Kogenate . In May 2014, it was announced that Bayer would buy Merck & Co 's consumer health care unit for $ 14.2 billion. Bayer also controls Dihon Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd in China. The Pharmaceuticals Division focuses on prescription products, especially for women's healthcare and cardiology , and also on specialty therapeutics in the areas of oncology , hematology and ophthalmology . The division also comprises

2275-541: The confiscation of Bayer's US assets and trademarks during World War I by the United States, and because of the subsequent widespread usage of the word. The term aspirin continued to be used in the US , UK and France for all brands of the drug, but it is still a registered trademark of Bayer in over 80 countries, including Canada, Mexico, Germany and Switzerland . As of 2011, approximately 40,000 tons of aspirin were produced each year and 10–20 billion tablets consumed in

2340-576: The deal is considered one of the worst corporate mergers in history. By 2023, Bayer's market value had declined by over 60% since its 2016 merger, leaving the company's overall worth at less than half of what it paid to acquire Monsanto. In 2003, to separate operational and strategic managements, Bayer AG was reorganized into a holding company . The group's core businesses were transformed into limited companies, each controlled by Bayer AG . These companies were: Bayer CropScience AG; Bayer HealthCare AG; Bayer MaterialScience AG and Bayer Chemicals AG, and

2405-501: The discovery of phenobarbital in 1911 and the discovery of its potent anti-epileptic activity in 1912. Phenobarbital was among the most widely used drugs for the treatment of epilepsy through the 1970s, and as of 2014 it remains on the World Health Organization's list of essential medications. During World War I (1914–1918), Bayer's assets, including the rights to its name and trademarks, were confiscated in

2470-483: The drug to have "too complicated a name" so Bayer settled on heroisch, the German word for heroic. In 1903, Bayer licensed the patent for the hypnotic drug diethylbarbituric acid from its inventors Emil Fischer and Joseph von Mering. It was marketed under the trade name Veronal as a sleep aid beginning in 1904. Systematic investigations of the effect of structural changes on potency and duration of action at Bayer led to

2535-473: The experiments. We would kindly request that you send us another group of women to the same number and at the same price." After the war, the Allied Control Council seized IG Farben for "knowingly and prominently ... building up and maintaining German war potential". It was split into its six constituent companies in 1951, then split again into three: BASF, Bayer and Hoechst. Bayer

2600-513: The explosion. In March 2006, Merck KGaA announced a €14.6 billion bid for Schering AG , founded in 1851. By 2006, Schering had annual gross revenue of around €5 billion and employed about 26,000 people in 140 subsidiaries worldwide. Bayer responded with a white knight bid and in July acquired the majority of shares of Schering for €14.6 billion, and in 2007, Bayer took over Schering AG and formed Bayer Schering Pharma. The acquisition of Schering

2665-579: The first commercially available antibacterial drug. The discovery and development of this first sulfonamide drug opened a new era in medicine. Domagk won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939 "for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil". He was forced by the Nazi Party to relinquish the reward; German citizens had been forbidden from accepting Nobel prizes since

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2730-424: The first neuroleptic ( chlorpromazine ) onto the German market. In the 1960s, Bayer introduced a pregnancy test, Primodos , that consisted of two pills that contained norethisterone (as acetate) and ethinylestradiol . It detected pregnancy by inducing menstruation in women who were not pregnant; the presence or absence of menstrual bleeding was then used to determine whether the user was pregnant. The test became

2795-478: The four core units, as depicted below. Bayer CropScience has products in crop protection (i.e. pesticides ), nonagricultural pest control, and seeds and plant biotechnology . In addition to conventional agrochemical business, it is involved in genetic engineering of food . In 2002, Bayer AG acquired Aventis (now part of Sanofi ) CropScience and fused it with their own agrochemicals division (Bayer Pflanzenschutz or "Crop Protection") to form Bayer CropScience;

2860-539: The growing student body. Originally a K-8 program, the school expanded to include an Upper School and graduated its first 12th-grade class in 1981. The "Spartans" began to participate in a wide variety of competitive sports such as golf, soccer and volleyball. The school's enrollment is approximately 1,280 students. Class size in the Lower School ranges from 8–24 depending on grade level. Annual tuition varies by grade and ranges from $ 24,000 to $ 37,000. The school has

2925-518: The head of the division, Liam Condon. Under the terms of the merger, Bayer promised to maintain Monsanto's more than 9,000 U.S. jobs and add 3,000 new U.S. high-tech positions. The prospective merger parties said at the time the combined agriculture business planned to spend $ 16 billion on research and development over the next six years and at least $ 8 billion on research and development in the United States. The global headquarters of Bayer CropScience

2990-437: The late 1990s it introduced a statin drug, Baycol ( cerivastatin ), but after 52 deaths were attributed to it, Bayer discontinued it in 2001. The side effect was rhabdomyolysis , causing kidney failure , which occurred with a tenfold greater frequency in patients treated with Baycol in comparison to those prescribed alternate medications of the statin class. Trasylol ( aprotinin ), used to control bleeding during major surgery,

3055-444: The mission to provide engineering education at the high school level in the same way that 4-H was designed for agriculture. The organization was formerly known as Better Engineering Talent for Schools (BETS) before its current name was adopted. A key JETS activity was promulgating a standardized test to evaluate engineering aptitude in high school students, known as the "National Engineering Aptitude Search". A student's score could be

3120-518: The public learned of the contamination, the E.U. banned imports of U.S. long-grain rice and the futures price plunged. In April 2010, a Lonoke County, Arkansas jury awarded a dozen farmers $ 48 million. The case was appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court, which affirmed the judgement. On 1 July 2011, Bayer CropScience agreed to a global settlement for up to $ 750 million. In September 2014, the firm announced plans to invest $ 1 billion in

3185-553: The subject of controversy when it was blamed for birth defects , and it was withdrawn from the market in the mid-1970s. Litigation in the 1980s ended inconclusively. A review of the matter by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in 2014 assessed the studies performed to date and found the evidence for adverse effects to be inconclusive. In 1978, Bayer purchased Miles Laboratories and its subsidiaries Miles Canada and Cutter Laboratories , acquiring along with them

3250-411: The three service limited companies Bayer Technology Services GmbH , Bayer Business Services GmbH and Bayer Industry Services GmbH & Co. OHG. In 2016, the company began a second restructuring with the aim of allowing it to transition to a life sciences based company. By divesting its Chemicals division in 2004 and with the aim of off-loading its Materials division by mid-2016, Bayer will be left with

3315-399: The trademarked name Aspirin . Aspirin is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines . In 2021, it was the 34th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 17   million prescriptions. In 1904, Bayer received a trademark for the "Bayer Cross" logo, which was subsequently stamped onto each aspirin tablet, creating an iconic product that

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3380-509: The unpleasant side effects of nausea and gastric pain . He also said he had invented the name aspirin and was the first person to use the new formulation to test its safety and efficacy. Bayer contends that aspirin was discovered by Felix Hoffmann to help his father, who had arthritis . Various sources support the conflicting claims. Most mainstream historians attribute the invention of aspirin to Hoffmann and/or Eichengrün. Heroin (diacetylmorphine), now illegal as an addictive drug,

3445-472: The world's largest chemical and pharmaceutical corporations. In 2016, Bayer merged with the American multinational Monsanto in what was the biggest acquisition by a German company to date. However, owing to the massive financial and reputational blows caused by ongoing litigation concerning Monsanto's herbicide Roundup , the deal is considered one of the worst corporate mergers in history. Bayer owns

3510-406: The world. This competition is divided into two parts. The first part, lasting an hour and a half, has 80 multiple-choice questions. Each group of ten questions is related to a specific problem relating to the overall theme. The second part consists of eight open-ended tasks that are aimed at encouraging teamwork to develop the best answer. This competition is taken part by each participating school in

3575-467: Was acetylsalicylic acid —first described by French chemist Charles Frederic Gerhardt in 1853 —a modification of salicylic acid or salicin , a folk remedy found in the bark of the willow plant. By 1899, Bayer's trademark Aspirin was registered worldwide for Bayer's brand of acetylsalicylic acid, but it lost its trademark status in the United States, France and the United Kingdom after

3640-608: Was a national non-profit organization based in the United States dedicated to promoting interest in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology among high-school students. In 2011 the Test of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science (TEAMS) and Unite programs of JETS were acquired by the Technology Student Association The Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) was established in 1950 with

3705-679: Was at that point known as Farbenfabriken Bayer AG ; it changed its name to Bayer AG in 1972. After the war, some employees of Bayer appeared in the IG Farben Trial, one of the Nuremberg Subsequent Tribunals under US jurisdiction. Among them was Fritz ter Meer , who helped to plan the Monowitz camp (Auschwitz III) and IG Farben's Buna Werke factory at Auschwitz, where medical experimentation had been conducted and where 25,000 forced laborers were deployed. Ter Meer

3770-464: Was chosen as one of the "Best Practice" STEM education program for secondary schools by Bayer Corporation . Each month, JETS publishes a free e-newsletter available through their website. JETS also publishes Explore , a magazine designed to inform students about potential engineering careers. This article related to a non-profit organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an education organization

3835-570: Was developed by a research team led by Gerhard Domagk in 1932 or 1933 at the Bayer Laboratories. Following World War II , the Allied Control Council seized IG Farben's assets because of its role in the Nazi war effort and involvement in the Holocaust , including using slave labour from concentration camps and humans for dangerous medical testing, and production of Zyklon B , a chemical used in gas chambers . In 1951, IG Farben

3900-431: Was discontinued; its products are now marketed under the Bayer name. On 16 September 2019, under the approval of National Company Law Tribunal, Bayer completed the merger of Monsanto India. Bayer's Monsanto acquisition is the biggest acquisition by a German company to date. However, owing to ongoing litigation concerning the Monsanto's herbicide Roundup and the massive financial and reputational blows it has caused Bayer,

3965-455: Was introduced as a non-addictive substitute for morphine , and trademarked and marketed by Bayer from 1898 to 1910 as a cough suppressant and over-the-counter treatment for other common ailments, including pneumonia and tuberculosis . While Bayer scientists were not the first to make heroin, the company did lead the way in commercializing it. Heroin was a Bayer trademark until after World War I. Bayer's director of pharmacology did not want

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4030-412: Was sentenced to seven years, but was released in 1950. Despite being a convicted nazi war criminal , Ter Meer was elected as chairman of Bayer AG's supervisory board in 1956, a position he retained until 1964. Helge Wehmeier, then CEO of Bayer, offered a public apology in 1995 to Elie Wiesel for the company's actions during World War II (1939–1945) and the Holocaust . In 1953, Bayer brought

4095-529: Was split into its constituent companies, and Bayer was reincorporated as Farbenfabriken Bayer AG. After the war, Bayer re-hired several former Nazis to high-level positions, including convicted Nazi war criminals found guilty at the IG Farben Trial like Fritz ter Meer . Bayer played a key role in the Wirtschaftswunder in post-war West Germany , quickly regaining its position as one of

4160-720: Was the largest take-over in Bayer's history, and as of 2015, was one of the ten biggest pharma mergers of all time. In November 2010, Bayer AG signed an agreement to buy Auckland-based animal health company Bomac Group. Bayer partnered on the development of the radiotherapeutic Xofigo with Algeta, and in 2014, moved to acquire the company for about $ 2.9 billion. In 2014, Bayer agreed to buy Merck's consumer health business for $ 14.2 billion which would provide Bayer control with brands such as Claritin, Coppertone and Dr. Scholl's. Bayer would attain second place globally in nonprescription drugs. In June 2015, Bayer agreed to sell its diabetic care business to Panasonic Healthcare Holdings for

4225-731: Was withdrawn from the market worldwide in 2007 when reports of increased mortality emerged; it was later re-introduced in Europe but not in the US. In 2014, pharmaceutical products contributed €12.05 billion of Bayer's €40.15 billion in gross revenue. In 2019, identified "key growth" products were Xarelto ( rivaroxaban ), Eylea ( aflibercept ), Stivarga ( regorafenib ), Xofigo ( radium-223 ), and Adempas (riociguat). Top-selling products as of 2014 included: Bayer produces various fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and some crop varieties. In 1994, Bayer AG purchased Sterling Winthrop's over-the-counter (OTC) drug business from SmithKline Beecham and merged it with Miles Laboratories, thereby reclaiming

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