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New Report: GMOs Causing Massive Pesticide Pollution

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Gentically Engindeered Foods, Pesticides, The Organic Center, Bayer, Dupont, Monsanto, Gmos, Union of Concerned Scientists, Syngenta, Food Safety, Crop Yields, Herbicides, Biotech, Center for Food Safety, Dow, Climate Change, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

There is one fact about genetically engineered foods that there is no debate about: no one wakes up in the morning eager to buy gene-altered food. There's good reason for this.

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Packaged Deceit: How Dietary Supplements and Fortified Foods Fool You

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Center for Science in the Public Interest, Bayer, Cancer, Multivitamin, Fortified Foods, Functional Claims, Prostate, Cspi, One a Day, Health, Wellness, Living News
Michael F. Jacobson

For years, Bayer has marketed its selenium supplements to men as a way to prevent prostate cancer. But the evidence that selenium prevents prostate cancer is as skimpy as Paris Hilton's bikini.

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Goodbye to You, Yaz

Doug Bremner | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth Control Pill, Contraception, Birth Control, Birth Control Pill Yaz, Retention of Potassium, Bayer, The Pill, Acne, Fda, Mood Swings, Yaz, Pms, Weight Loss, Pmdd, Living News
Doug Bremner

Yaz wasn't approved to treat PMDD and acne, and in any case, not all women have PMDD or untreated acne, even though the makers of Yaz probably wish that that was the case.

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Birth Control Pill Yaz's False Advertising: Doesn't Help Acne, Pre-Menstrual Syndrome

New York Times | NATASHA SINGER | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Birth Control Pill, Bayer, Yaz, Birth Control Pill Bayer, Birth Control Pill Acne, Birth Control Pill PMS, Birth Control Pill Side Effects, Birth Control Pill Yaz, Business News

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals has just introduced a new $20 million advertising campaign for Yaz, the most popular birth control pill in the United...

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Bayer to pay $97.5M to settle kickback probe

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Bayer Diabetes Kickback, Bayer Settlement, Bayer, Bayer Ruling, Bayer and Diabetes Products, Health, Bayer Verdict, Business News

WASHINGTON -- German medical conglomerate Bayer will pay $97.5 million to settle U.S. government allegations that it paid kickbacks to medical supplie...

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Researcher: 22,000 Died Amid Delayed Bayer Drug Recall

Reuters | Ransdell Pierson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Trasylol, Bayer, Bayer AG, CBS 60 Minutes, Bayer Trasylol, Trasylol Deaths, Business News

The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open hea...

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