Schering is a pharmaceutical company specialising in fertility control and hormone therapy, therapeutics, diagnostics and dermatology.
Fertility control and hormone therapy:
Schering's commitment in the field of hormone research goes back to the early 1920s of the last century.
Therapeutics:
In the business field of therapeutics Schering concentrates itself on the research and development of new drugs in the indication fields cardiovascular system, central nervous system (CNS), and oncology (cancer).
Diagnostics:
Schering commits itself since the beginnings of diagnostic imaging in this field and is one of
the leading manufacturers of diagnostic contrast media.
Dermatology:
Schering has a long tradition with regard to research of drugs for the treatment of such skin diseases. At the beginning of the 50s Schering-scientists succeeded in having an epochal pioneer achievement with the development and introduction of locally applicable corticosteroid ointments. Even today this achievement has not been surpassed in many fields of application.
Schering Allergy & Respiratory
USA
Pharmaceutical company page for Claritin.
Schering-Plough
USA
Schering-Plough is a worldwide pharmaceutical company committed to discovering and marketing new therapies and treatment programs that can improve people's health and save lives.
Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals manufactures and markets prescription pharmaceuticals under its Schering Laboratories and Key Pharmaceuticals labels in the United States and through subsidiaries in more than 125 world markets. Products are offered primarily in four major therapeutic areas: allergy/respiratory, anti-infective/anticancer, dermatologicals and cardiovasculars. A line of generic drugs is marketed in the United States through the Warrick Pharmaceuticals unit.
Manufacturers of these allergy related products:
Claritin® (loratidine)
Chor-Trimeton® allergy tablets (chlorpheniramine maleate)
Clear Passage® nasal strips from AFRIN
Drixoral® Allergy Sinus tablets
Proventil (albuterol sulfate)
SmithKline Beecham
USA
SmithKline Beecham is one of the world's leading healthcare companies. SB discovers, develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceuticals, vaccines, over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and health-related consumer products, and provides healthcare services, including disease management, clinical laboratory testing, and pharmaceutical benefit management.
UCB Disease Management, a department of UCB Pharma, supports this programme by diffusing relevant scientific and medical information on specific diseases.
Twinject
United States
A unique treatment for serious allergic reactions : 2 complete doses of ephedrine in 1 convenient device.
UCB Pharmaceuticals
Belgium
UCB is a world scale pharmaceutical and chemical group which is active in three industrial sectors: the Pharma sector, the Chemical sector and the Film sector. UCBs research-based activities in these sectors aim to be at the service of man, seeking to promote his well-being and quality of life.
The Group has withdrawn from its more cyclical activities and its current strategy of innovation and globalisation is to specialise in those ranges of products with high added value, resulting from its own research, in markets where UCB aims to be amongst the world leaders.
UCBs growing international presence is based on this strategy of setting up subsidiaries wherever and whenever they are justified by market opportunities. This is reflected by the Groups present structure, which comprises the parent company UCB S.A. and about 130 subsidiaries and affiliates world-wide, mainly in Western Europe but also in the Americas and Asia.
Warner Lambert
USA
We make some of the world's best known pharmaceuticals and consumer products. They include:
prescription medicines for heart disease, diabetes and epilepsy,
consumer health products such as Listerine, Lubriderm and Benadryl,
confectioneries like Trident, Certs and Chiclets,
Schick & Wilkinson Sword razors and Tetra aquarium products.
Manufacturers of these allergy related products:
Actifed®
Benadryl® (diphenhydramine hydrochloride)
Benylin®
Celestial Seasonings®
Halls® Cough Suppressant
Sinutab®
Sudafed®
Welcome Addition.com
USA
Manufacturers of baby formulae: Similac®, Isomil®, Alimentum®
Wyeth-Ayerst
USA
Wyeth-Ayerst is a major research-oriented enterprise serving the health needs of people in over 100 countries. Wyeth-Ayerst has a long of pioneering developments in pharmaceuticals and is a leader in the areas of women's health care, cardiovascular and metabolic disease therapies, anti-inflammatory agents, central nervous system drugs, oncology/immunology, infectious diseases, anti-infectives, vaccines and generic pharmaceuticals. Wyeth-Ayerst's principal products include Premarin (conjugated estrogens tablets, USP), Prempro and Premphase (conjugated estrogens/medroxyprogesterone acetate tablets), and more.
Headquartered in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Wyeth-Ayerst employs more than 40,000 people worldwide, who bring to the company a full range of talent in research, marketing, sales and manufacturing.
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