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Patient PerspectivesCreative ways to help kids understand rare diseases
Parents and doctors can help children understand rare diseases like TSC and SJIA with the help of cartoon dogs and comic book superheroes.
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Access to HealthcareText messages in Africa help to fight malaria
After 40 years of working in information technology, Jim Barrington took a partial retirement from his job as Novartis’ chief information officer and started looking for new ways to apply his skills.
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Access to HealthcareTalking to: Ann Aerts, Head of the Novartis Foundation
With extensive experience in public health management, having worked for the International Red Cross, among others, and as a doctor in emergency situations on the ground in Africa and Asia— Ann Aerts discusses the Novartis Foundation's new leprosy strategy.
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DiscoveryNovartis antibody increases muscle growth in mice and human cell cultures
An antibody that boosts muscle mass could mean independence for the frail and elderly. Learn how Novartis research aims to improve healthy aging.
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Access to HealthcareTelemedicine: Taking health care to the world's far corners
Ann Aerts has stared death in the eye. The head of the non-profit Novartis Foundation lost colleagues when she was serving as an emergency medicine physician on a medical mission in a dangerously unstable country.
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Access to HealthcareFighting malaria in Africa
The head of Public Affairs for the Novartis Malaria Initiative has a malaria story of her own to tell.
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Patient PerspectivesProtecting our tomorrows: Portraits of Meningococcal Disease
To raise awareness of the sudden and profound impact of meningococcal disease on families across the globe, world-renowned photographer Anne Geddes has joined forces with the Confederation of Meningitis Organizations (CoMO) and Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics for the Protecting Our Tomorrows: Portraits of Meningococcal Disease project.
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From Our LabsYoung talent & emerging technologies come together at BioCamp
University students majoring in the life sciences or business often have trouble imagining the direction of their careers.
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From Our LabsDisease pathways: A key to new drug discovery
Using new technologies, researchers have developed a deeper understanding of how cells function, changing conceptions of disease.
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DiscoveryTackling a rare disease: Working toward a treatment for SMA
Most people have never heard of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare genetic disease that affects approximately 1 in 6,000 babies born worldwide each year. Innovative research may produce treatments for patients suffering from SMA and other rare diseases.
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Access to HealthcareMaking healthcare sustainable in the developing world
Today, many companies are trying to solve global health challenges through philanthropy. However, it has become clear that philanthropy alone is no longer enough to make a lasting impact.
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From Our LabsSurfing the wave of big data analytics
The cause of a rare, inherited, often fatal kidney disease in many patients remained elusive for years, despite multiple attempts to solve the mystery. Then in 2012, a team of researchers cracked some of the unsolved cases in just six weeks.
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