Bayer Animal Health has reported a 13.6% increase in revenues for the first three months of 2010. The business unit, part of the Consumer Health segment within Bayer’s HealthCare division, saw sales rise to €259 million ($335.8m) from the €228 million in Q1 2009. The increase was 12.9% after ...
Novartis Animal Health , the veterinary medicines business within the Swiss multinational Novartis medical group, has reported fiscal 2009 revenues of $1.101 billion in local currencies, a 4% increase on the rounded 2008 figure of $1.1bn. Animal Health is part of Novartis' Consumer Health division, ...
Chanelle Veterinary, part of the Irish generic drugs group Chanelle Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing, has received EU clearance for a sheep antiparasitic product and a canine analgesic. The company has launched Ivermectin Oral, a 0.8 mg/ml product for sheep, within its Animec branded range. The ...
Butox 7.5 pour-on, an ectoparasiticide for cattle and sheep made by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health (I/SPAH), remains effective when the animals are exposed to rain, according to recently published research. The product, which contains the synthetic pyrethroid deltamethrin, is applied ...
Merial and Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health have announced new product launches in Japan. Merial Japan has introduced its cattle wormer, Eprinex (eprinomectin), via distributor Nippon Zenyaku Kogyo. The product controls internal parasites including roundworms and lung worm as well as external ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to run a clinical trial of moxidectin , the active ingredient in a number of veterinary antiparasitic products, as a treatment for river blindness (onchocerciasis) in humans. The disease, caused by a parasitic worm, is estimated to affect over 100 million ...
Effipro, Virbac's fipronil-based spray and spot-on external antiparasitic range for use against fleas and ticks on cats and dogs, had been several years in development. But, when the patent protecting the fipronil molecule – the active ingredient in Merial 's market-leading Frontline – expired in ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency has granted new label claims to Summit VetPharm 's canine antiparasitic Vectra 3D. It may now be used to protect dogs from sandflies, mites and lice. This is in addition to the earlier indication against ticks, fleas and mosquitoes. The product is a monthly ...
