Manufacturing

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., U.S.A. - Merck & Co., Inc., (the parent company of MSD (Pty) Ltd. South Africa) announced today that it has signed an agreement to grant a non-exclusive patent license for the manufacture and sale of a generic version of efavirenz to Them...

BANGKOK, THAILAND - Abbott Laboratories and the Abbott Laboratories Fund today announced that program results and key learnings from the company's Global Care Initiatives would be highlighted in more than 30 presentations at the XV International AIDS Conference taking...

Bangkok, Thailand - Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), an international economic development firm, announced that it has completed a comprehensive review of the Abbott Laboratories Fund initiative Step Forward, a program to improve the lives of orphans and vu...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Ecolab Inc. ranked 10th on the 2004 "100 Best Corporate Citizens" as named by Business Ethics magazine. In addition, Ecolab is one of only 29 companies to be recognized for five consecutive years on the list, which was published in the Spring 2004 ed...

ABBOTT PARK, Il. - Abbott Laboratories issued its third annual global citizenship report, "Touching Lives." The report highlights Abbott's work to develop sustainable business solutions to address three major issues facing the global community: access to medicines, i...

NEW YORK - With Americans drinking more than 400 million cups of coffee per day, few other products have as much impact on the Earth. Coffee is the second most traded commodity, behind oil, and employs more than 25 million farmers. And, while many of us make food choices bas...

HOUSTON, USA and CONSTANTA, ROMANIA - Hundreds of Romanian children infected with HIV through unsafe medical practices in the 1980s and early 1990s are now receiving high-quality care and antiretroviral (ARV) treatment at the Romanian-American Children's Center (Centr...

LONDON - GlaxoSmithKline [LSE: GSK] today reinforced its commitment to responsible management of ethical, social and environmental concerns and, in particular, to play a leading role in supporting healthcare in the developing world. The publication of GSK's "Corpor...

LONDON - A Youth Forum in Bucharest today has provided a unique opportunity for young people living with HIV/AIDS to come together with a common purpose. Young people from Italy, Portugal, Romania, Russia and Spain are meeting to share experiences ...

NEW YORK,NY - First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles (FAME), the oldest black congregation in the city of Los Angeles, has joined forces with pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer Inc, to host "Fighting HIV through R&B", a novel HIV testing program that of...