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11-11-11
Public health officials at the 21st Inter-American Conference on Onchocerciasis in Bogota, Colombia announced that Colombia has eliminated onchocerciasis (river blindness) within its borders, making it the first country suffering from river blindness in the Americas to reach this goal. It also wa...
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11-04-11
Scrip, a leading global pharmaceutical and biotech news organisation, honored Abbott and its philanthropic foundation, the Abbott Fund, with a 2011 Scrip Award for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Scrip's seventh annual awards ceremony in Lo...
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11-03-11
PATH, Abbott and the Abbott Fund today announced a partnership to address malnutrition by advancing the rice fortification market in India. Currently, 200 million people suffer from hunger and malnutrition in India, more than any other country in the world. Rice is the staple food for 65 percent ...
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11-01-11
/PRNewswire/ - Merz Aesthetics, Inc., the exclusive distributor of Asclera® (polidocanol) Injection in the U.S., today announced the launch of the "STAND AND DELIVER" program. In partnership with an advisory panel of three women who were selected for their significant abilities to STAND AND DELI...
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10-31-11
In October 2011, the Health Secretary of Barranqilla with support from Novo Nordisk launched the "Vida Nueva" (New Life) Project for Gestational Diabetes in Barranquilla, Colombia. Vida Nueva, a key activity in Novo Nordisk's Changing Diabetes® in Pregnancy programme, seeks to diagnose and treat ...
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10-20-11
(Marketwire) - Today Bombardier Inc. (TSX: BBD.A)(TSX: BBD.B) published its 2011 CSR Overview, entitled Connecting the Dots presenting an eight-page snapshot of the Company's CSR activities over the past year.
Connecting the Dots reflects on a year in which Bombardier has done things diffe...
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10-19-11
Celebrating 10 years of partnership with Susan G. Komen for the Cure® through its Specify for a Cure® cause marketing program,
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10-18-11
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10-11-11
Merck today announced the names of 10 outstanding high school seniors with asthma who have been selected as recipients of the 2011 Will to Win Scholarships. Each student has been awarded a $5,000 scholarship for excelling academically and in one of the five scholarship categories: performing arts...