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Creating a Health and Well-Being Culture: What Hospitals and Senior Communities Can Do

Feb 22, 2016 11:40 AM ET - Recently stakeholders from strategic and geographic aligned acute care and senior living organizations came together to work collaboratively to answer the question “How can hospitals and senior living providers work better together?” Attendees of...

Novo Nordisk Publishes Integrated 2015 Annual Report

Feb 12, 2016 8:00 AM ET - Novo Nordisk has published its integrated 2015 Annual Report detailing the company’s year-end performance.

Diabetes in Children: A Family Matter

Feb 1, 2016 12:05 PM ET - Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong condition, most often diagnosed in children and young adults. Treatment involves daily injections of insulin, regular exercise, proper nutrition and emotional support. A huge responsibility for anyone, even more so...

On the Rise: Zika Virus Infections

Feb 1, 2016 11:40 AM ET - Over the last several weeks, the Zika virus has captured an increasing number of headlines worldwide. The Zika virus is an emerging mosquito-borne virus that has spread to 22 countries and territories of the Americas since local transmission was...

Huggies Brand Partners with Nurses to Establish Inaugural Huggies Nursing Advisory Council

Jan 14, 2016 9:15 AM ET - Huggies is announcing the launch of its Nursing Advisory Council to offer ongoing guidance to nurses and information on helping protect newborns' fragile skin. Together with the Huggies brand, the council will identify opportunities to provide...

A Better Breast Cancer Detection Tool Than Mammograms?

Oct 29, 2015 1:15 PM ET - According to the NIH, approximately 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lifetime, so early detection is essential. Though mammograms are considered the conventional standard of care for early detection,...

About the Novartis Malaria Initiative

Oct 6, 2015 12:00 PM ET - This week, the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine was jointly awarded to Youyou Tu for the discovery of artemisinin, a key component in malaria...

Novartis Launches ‘Novartis Access’, a Portfolio of Affordable Medicines to Treat Chronic Diseases in Lower-income Countries

Sep 24, 2015 12:30 PM ET - Novartis today announced the launch of Novartis Access, a portfolio of 15 medicines to treat chronic diseases in low- and low-middle-income countries. The portfolio addresses cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory illnesses, and breast...

Merck & Co., Inc. Publishes 2014 Global Corporate Responsibility Report

Sep 17, 2015 4:45 PM ET - Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today issued its 2014 global corporate responsibility report, which provides an overview of its priorities, programs and performance in the areas of Access to Health,...

How is a School like the Space Station?

Sep 9, 2015 11:15 AM ET - Food matters. The nutritional value and appeal of their food makes a difference to the scientists on the International Space Station. That point was made during a panel discussion “Is Food the Cure?” by Vickie Kloeris, Manager, International Space...

Friendship can be a Life-Saver to a Student with Food Allergies

Sep 8, 2015 12:15 PM ET - With food allergies on the rise, and 15 million Americans allergic to one or more foods, chances are good that someone you work with, go to school with or are friends with will have a food allergy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and...

Novartis Foundation Presents Healthcare Models and Disease Elimination Programs at ECTMIH

Sep 7, 2015 1:10 PM ET - The Novartis Foundation and its partners will highlight progress towards transforming the health of the poorest populations at the 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH) held in Basel from September 6 – 10...

Novartis Continues Commitment to go the Last Mile in Effort to Eliminate Leprosy

Aug 28, 2015 1:15 AM ET - Novartis has renewed its pledge with the World Health Organization (WHO) to work to end leprosy by extending its donation of multidrug therapy (MDT) medicines to treat leprosy through the year 2020. This five-year agreement includes treatments worth...

Novartis Announces Winners of its 12th Annual International Biotechnology Leadership Camp (BioCamp)

Aug 27, 2015 9:00 AM ET - Novartis announced the winners of its twelfth annual International Biotechnology Leadership Camp (BioCamp), a three-day seminar bringing biotechnology and business experts together with 70 selected students from leading international universities in...

Novartis Foundation Leprosy Elimination Dialogue Event Press Release

Aug 6, 2015 10:15 AM ET - The Novartis Foundation convenes experts to help finish the last mile in leprosy elimination Global Health and leprosy experts gather to bring leprosy back onto the global agenda in order to accelerate efforts to...

Are you Sitting Yourself to an Early Death?

Jul 30, 2015 11:00 AM ET - Deborah Hecker Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Do you start your day with a run or...

Diabetes Screening in Kenya – ‘It Takes Only 5 Seconds’

Jul 6, 2015 9:00 AM ET - NAIROBI, Kenya, July 6, 2015 /3BL Media/– The Kenyan Ministry of Health, together with Novo Nordisk and the Kenya Diabetes Management and Information Centre, launched a six-month diabetes awareness campaign in Nairobi to promote early diagnosis...

Between Health and Faith - Managing Diabetes During Ramadan

Jul 2, 2015 11:00 AM ET - A family is gathered in a home in Algiers, the capital of Algeria. In the living room several generations have come together, they have put on their finest clothes, they exchange loud cheers and big smiles. Music from a radio fills the room and...

Three Years in a Row: Novo Nordisk In Turkey Recognised for Ethical Conduct

Jun 15, 2015 8:30 AM ET - June 15, 2015 /3BL Media/ - For the third consecutive year, Novo Nordisk Turkey received the Turkish Ethics Award, ETİKA 2014, for high ethical business conduct. The ETİKA Award aims to recognise and publicly praise companies who value ethics and...

Novartis Supports Pan-African Meeting to Move Faster to Malaria Elimination

Jun 12, 2015 10:00 AM ET - Malaria experts and leaders from over 35 African countries gather to explore innovative strategies to move from malaria control to elimination Meeting convened by Novartis fosters best practice sharing and helps catalyze action to achieve new WHO objective of 90% reduction in malaria burden by 2030 Growing threats including inadequate funding, first signs of drug resistance, and the advance of diseases such as Ebola, could derail efforts unless addressed

Novartis Releases 2014 Corporate Responsibility Performance Report

May 28, 2015 12:00 PM ET - May 28, 2015 /3BL Media/ - Novartis has published its Corporate Responsibility (CR) Performance Report for...

Infographic: How Mobility Is Improving Workers' Safety

May 27, 2015 9:00 AM ET - Mobility can be a powerful tool in the right hands. It saves operator time and bolsters labor productivity, provides a system of record with one-to-one accuracy verification, and limits incidents by granting employees access to data in real-time...

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