International Council of Nurses/ Merck Mobile Library Project: The Healing Power of Information
Many African nations lack a critical tool in the fight against AIDS, malaria and other diseases: nurses.
“In our country, we should have more than 22,000 nurses, but there are only 9,000 now,” says Banda Aaron, a teacher at the Lewanika School of Nursing in Mongu, Zambia. This shortage is particularly problematic because nurses are the primary health care providers for the vast majority of Zambians....
Health Literacy Month Spotlights Critical Need for Better Understanding of Health Information
October marks the fifth annual Health Literacy Month, a worldwide campaign to promote the importance of understandable health information. To mark the month, Merck had a discussion with Helen Osborne, M.Ed., OTRL, founder of Health Literacy Month and author of the new book Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message published by Jones and Bartlett....
Merck's Vaccine Expert Has Turned Dreams into Realities
Life was often rugged on the Montana farm in the Western Frontier where Dr. Maurice Hilleman, Director of the Merck Institute for Vaccinology, spent his boyhood. "It was during the economic...
Milestone Moments in Merck History
Sixty years ago, a small but important package left Merck's laboratory in Rahway, N.J., on its way to a hospital in New Haven, Conn. The package was carefully wrapped in brown paper and sealed with a bright red postal stamp that read "Special Delivery"
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