Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), a student of Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great, invented a system of logic which remained essentially unchanged in Western European philosophy for more than two millennia following his death. Although his predecessors,...

The Organon is the name given by Aristotle's followers, the Peripatetics, to the standard collection of six of his works on logic. The works are Categories, Prior Analytics, De Interpretatione, Posterior Analytics, Sophistical Refutations, and...

Women's health care is the primary focus for Organon Inc., which manufactures branded pharmaceutical products for contraception. fertility, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and depression. "Women's health is something we're emphasizing now and will continue to emphasize in the near future," says vice...

Akzo Nobel sells its pharma subsidiary to Schering-Plough. Plus, Jazz registers for an IPO, Eli Lilly acquires a sleep specialist, Dendrite joins France's Cegedim, and other key recent deals. Akzo Nobel's plans tu spin off its Organon Biosciences unit through an initial public...

Among major U.S. drug stocks, Schering-Plough tends to fly under the radar of better-known peers such as Pfizer and Merck.That changed last week when Schering SGP said it would pay about $14.4 billion for Organon BioSciences, a unit of Dutch chemical and drug conglomerate Akzo...

U.S. pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough Corp. has agreed to sell off several animal vaccines and medicines to win EU approval to acquire Organon Biosciences, the drug unit of Netherlands-based Akzo Nobel NV, for $14.4 billion (10.95 billion euros).The European Commission said Thursday it had cleared Schering-Plough...