Healthcare Services

DEERFIELD, Ill. - Baxter Healthcare Corporation announced today the kick-off of CAMP SUPERFLY™ II, its second annual nationwide competition to support summer camp programs for children affected by a bleeding or clotting disorder. Beginning April 1, members of all ag...

DEERFIELD, Ill. - Baxter International Inc. and The Baxter International Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Baxter, today announced their combined 2005 charitable giving, focused on increasing access to healthcare, helping underdeveloped nations and countries in cri...

DEERFIELD, Ill. - Baxter International Inc. announced today the donation of more than 280,000 doses of the company's NeisVac-C vaccine, a meningococcal group C vaccine, to International Health Partners (IHP), a charitable organization dedicated to providing donated me...

JACKSON, MS - The Foundation for the Mid South announced today its receipt of a grant from The Baxter International Foundation to establish a health recovery fund to aid disaster restoration efforts of community-based health organizations in the mid-south region of t...

CHICAGO - In recognition of its leadership, hospital and community partnerships and its high quality primary health care services, Venice Family Clinic of Venice, Calif. has won the 2005 Foster G. McGaw Prize for excellence in community service--one of the health care...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2006--The Medtronic Foundation today announced its founding sponsorship of Parent Heart Watch, a first-of-its-kind national network of families who have lost children to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) - the sudden, abrupt loss of he...

INDIANAPOLIS and DEERFIELD, Ill. - In recognition of her 30 years of research and practice relieving the side effects of cancer treatment, the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, announced this weekend the selection of Marylin J. Dodd, RN, PhD, F...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2005--Medtronic, Inc., announced today that it has been recognized as one of two "Minnesota Child Friendly Employers of the Year" in a program co-sponsored by Minnesota Business for Early Learning (MnBEL) and Minnesota Work Life ...

DARMSTADT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 2005--Examples of corporate responsibility in action abound in the second edition of the Corporate Responsibility Report of Merck KGaA. Reports and information on relief measures for the victims of natural catastrophes, pr...

DEERFIELD, Ill. - Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) announced today that it has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) and the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI North America), marking the seventh consecutive year that...