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12-02-07
KAMPALA, UGANDA - December 1, 2007 - Abbott today made its new lower-strength lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) tablet, known as Aluvia® in developing countries and Kaletra® in developed countries, available to children living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda "“ a step the co...
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11-21-07
ABBOTT PARK, IL - November 21, 2007 "“ Abbott has received the annual Illinois Governor's Pollution Prevention Award for outstanding environmental excellence for the sixth time in the last seven years.
The 21st annual Governor's Pollution Prev...
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11-21-07
ABBOTT PARK, IL - November 21, 2007 - This holiday season, Abbott employees are reaching out to help their neighbors, providing more than $7.2 million in support for health and human service organizations in communities across the country. These employee contributions from ...
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11-21-07
PITTSBURGH - November 21, 2007 - The Bayer Foundation today announced it will award a total of $1.5 million in grants over the next few years to a number of nonprofit organizations and universities for programs that foster sustainable development, science and environmental e...
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11-19-07
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. - November 19, 2007 - The Merck Company Foundation announced today a $2.8 million commitment to establish two new immunization training centers in Uganda and Zambia and to expand the Foundation's support of two existing centers in Kenya and Mali as p...
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11-15-07
WHITEHOUSE STATION, NJ, USA, and QUITO, ECUADOR - November 15, 2007 - Public health officials gathering at the 17th Inter-American Conference on Onchocerciasis (IACO) in Quito, Ecuador, today announced that transmission of the tropical disease onchocerciasis (also known as r...
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11-12-07
PITTSBURGH - NOVEMBER 12, 2007 - Reaffirming its commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, today Bayer employee-volunteers and Chartiers Valley Intermediate School third-graders rolled up their sleeves, grabbed their spades and planted trees on the school's cam...
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11-09-07
NORTH CHICAGO, IL - November 9, 2007 - To help raise environmental awareness in Lake County, Abbott has donated a "Cool Globes" sculpture from a recent outdoor public art exhibit in Chicago to the Lake County Forest Preserves (LCFP) as a permanent display at the organizatio...
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11-06-07
ORANGEBURG, S.C., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- It's not every day that a chemical company gets cited for creating wetlands. But the
prestigious Wildlife Habitat Council now has recognized specialty chemicals maker Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) twice in as many ...
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10-31-07
ABBOTT PARK, IL - October 31, 2007 - Abbott recently was recognized as a leading company for diversity in two publications. Abbott was named an "Industry Sector Leader" in a special section on diversity in FORTUNE magazine, marking the 10th straight year that Abbott has bee...