Therapeutic Areas and Products
Bayer HealthCare makes an important contribution to human and animal health with its innovative products and by researching new therapeutic areas. Apart from medicines, the company’s offering includes monitoring devices for people with diabetes, and grooming products for animals.
| Division Animal Health | Veterinary medicines and grooming products |
| Division Bayer Schering Pharma | Prescription medicines |
| Division Consumer Care | Over-the-counter medicines and nutritional products |
| Division Diabetes Care | Blood glucose monitoring devices and application technologies |
Animal Health’s veterinary medicines and grooming products
The key products include
- flea-control medications such as Advantage®, for dogs and cats,
- products against ticks,
- drugs to treat infectious diseases in livestock and companion animals (Baytril®),
- products to control endoparasites in pets (Drontal® and Drontal® Plus)
- as well as Baycox®, the innovative product to control coccidia problems in farm animals.
Bayer Schering Pharma’s prescription medicines
Bayer Schering Pharma is concentrating on four strategic business units:
- Diagnostic Imaging: X-ray contrast media, Contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging
- General Medicine: Anti-infectives, Men’s Healthcare, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, thromboembolic diseases
- Specialty Medicine: Hemophilia, Products for treating leukemias and lymphomas, drugs for solid-tumor therapy, and for treating diseases of the central nervous system, age-related eye diseases
- Women’s Healthcare: Contraception, Menopause Management, Gynecological therapies
Information on prescription medicines
In European countries, we are only allowed to provide information on prescription medicines to health care professionals. For information on our prescription medicines, please consult your physician.
Consumer Care’s over-the-counter medicines and nutritional products
Among its most well-known brands are:
- Analgesics: Bayer Aspirin®, Aleve®, Aktren® and Midol®
- Gastrointestinal products: Alka-Seltzer®, Lefax®, Phillips'® Milk of Magnesia, Rennie® and Talcid®
- Dermatological/topical products: Bepanthen®, Bepanthol®, Canesten®, RID®, Germolene®, Germoloids® and Bactin®
- Cough and cold remedies: Alka-Seltzer Plus®, Aleve® Cold & Sinus and Tabcin®
- Multivitamins and dietary supplements: Berocca®, One-A-Day®, Pluravit®, Supradyn® and Flintstones®
