IU Medical School, Merck take shot at vaccinating Kenyan kids
Half of the children born in sub-Saharan Africa each year do not receive routine vaccinations to protect them from debilitating or deadly diseases. An ambitious venture of the Indiana University School of Medicine and pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. seeks to reverse that trend in Kenya, where the School has had a strong presence for more than a decade. ... ...The Merck Vaccine Network-Africa has...Three Merck chemists win Heroes of Chemistry award for major asthma treatment advance
Three research chemists from Merck Research Laboratories have been named Heroes of Chemistry by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, for discovering and developing Singulair®, to help control asthma in adults and children as young as 12 months. Merck Research Laboratories is located in West Point, Pa....... The research team will be honored Sept. 7 at the Ame.... . .Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, April 22, 1999 - The Merck Manual of Diagnosis.and Therapy, the most widely used general medical textbook in the world,.celebrates its 100th birthday today with the publication of the new Centennial.Edition.. .The oldest continuously published medical textbook in the English language, 17.editions of The Merck Manual have been published since 1899 as a non-pr...