Health and Wellness
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06-09-14
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development to Work with Netherlands Leprosy Relief to Help Reduce Leprosy Transmission
The Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development and Netherlands Leprosy Relief (NLR) today announced their collaboration with national leprosy programs and other International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations (ILEP) partners to interrupt transmission of leprosy. In pilot sites of sever...
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05-28-14
Green Solutions Can Reverse Rise in Chronic Diseases
Today, Novo Nordisk and sustainability think tank Sustainia present a new approach in the fight against chronic diseases based on green innovations. Accounting for more than 63 percent of all global deaths[1], chronic diseases have become an alarming issue that the healthcare sector cannot handle...
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05-19-14
Nancy Wildfeir-Field Appointed President, GBCHealth
The Board of Directors of GBCHealth announced today that Executive Director Michael Schreiber has decided to depart for a new position as President & Chief Operating Officer, Concern Worldwide U.S., and Nancy Wildfeir-Field is joining GBCHealth as its new President, effective May 28th, 2014.
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05-08-14
USAID Celebrates Historic Progress in the Global Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced that the agency, through its Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Program, has supported the delivery of 1 billion NTD treatments to some of the world’s poorest populations, cumulatively reaching approximately 465 million people i...
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04-30-14
Seventh Generation and More Than One-Hundred Twenty Thousand Americans Take a Stand Against Toxic Chemicals and Demand Stronger Chemical Laws
(Marketwired) - Today, Seventh Generation's Toxin Freedom Fighters (child-superheroes advocating for chemical regulation reform) and ...
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04-10-14
Clinics Bring Life-changing Care to Ghana's Capital
Two new clinics were created as part of Novo Nordisk's Base of the Pyramid programme, which is creating partnerships to build sustainable access to diabetes ...
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04-08-14
New Model Needed in Diabetes Care
Participants at the 5th International DAWN™ Summit (Diabetes Attitudes Wishes and Needs) today pledged to work together to make person-centred diabetes care a reality for the 382 million people living with diabetes around the world.[i]
While it is widely ack...
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04-07-14
Novartis and Malaria No More Provide Two Million Antimalarial Treatments to Children in Zambia
Novartis announced today that two million treatments of its pediatric antimalarial are arriving in Zambia thanks to the ongoing efforts of the company in collaboration with Malaria No More’s Power of One campaign. Zambia is the first beneficiary country of this campaign sponsored by Novartis. One...
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04-07-14
Novartis et Malaria No More Fournissent Deux Millions de Traitements Antipaludiques aux Enfants de Zambie
Novartis a annoncé aujourd'hui que deux millions de traitements de son antipaludique pédiatrique arrivent en Zambie grâce aux efforts actuels de la société, en collaboration avec la campagne Power of One de Malaria No More. La Zambie est le premier pays à bénéficier de cette campagne parrainée pa...
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04-07-14
Novartis und Malaria No More liefern zwei Millionen Antimalaria-Behandlungseinheiten für Kinder nach Sambia
Novartis hat heute angekündigt, dass durch die fortlaufende Zusammenarbeit mit der «Power of One»-Kampagne von Malaria No More zwei Millionen Behandlungseinheiten ihres pädiatrischen Malariamedikaments in Sambia bereitstehen werden. Sambia ist das erste Land, das von der von Novartis geförderten ...
