Two of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies said Tuesday they are uniting their animal health businesses in a deal to become the top dog in the veterinary industry. Merck & Co. and France's Sanofi-Aventis SA said they'll jointly own the combined business, which will have ...

French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis and US group Merck announced on Tuesday they would join forces to create the world's biggest animal health company. The companies will own an equal share in the joint venture, which will combine Sanofi-Aventis's Merial unit with Merck's Intervet/Schering-Plough, they said in a statement. The combined business would hold 29 percent of ...

PET MEDS: Two top pharmaceutical companies, Merck & Co. and Sanofi-Aventis SA, are uniting their animal health businesses in what would be the world's largest veterinary medicine company. GOOD FIT: Sanofi's Merial makes some very popular dog and cat products, such as Frontline flea and tick ...

For the first time, an experimental drug has extended the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer who are no longer responding to other treatments and are out of options for fighting the disease, a company-led study found. The benefit was modest — an extra 10 weeks — but ...