Health & Healthcare

Building on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, there are significant opportunities to expand the use of rapid testing to address many health challenges around the world- from infectious diseases like malaria and HIV to non-infectious health needs like prenatal care.

United Airlines recently announced the five lucky grand prize winners of its "Your Shot to Fly" sweepstakes, who will each get to fly anywhere in the world United flies with a companion over the course of the next year.

There are nearly 7,000 types of rare diseases, and about 80 percent of them are caused by genetic mutations. “Compared with common diseases, rare diseases are difficult to diagnose from the very beginning,” says Yiou Wang, Founder of the Illness Challenge Foundation. “Diagnosis is the first step in the patient journey, but it’s a key step to identify the direction.”

Over the past 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases to center stage.

Beyond societal economic impact, Medtronic gains a competitive advantage through the diverse perspectives and innovation that supplier diversity provides.

Medtronic employees are using their skills and passions to create lasting change through community engagement.

In 2020, we conducted a refresh of the 2019 Materiality Assessment, in which we sought to confirm the continued relevance of the existing Material Topics and their relative positioning within the materiality matrix visuals for the company as a whole and broken out by region.

With attention focused squarely on the COVID pandemic, it is understandable that may have forgotten about the drug epidemic, which continues to impact lives across the country.

Forbes teamed up with market research company Statista to identify the companies most liked by new workforce entrants in their annual ranking, in which Merck was named #1 best employer for new graduates.

Thanks to a donation by International Paper, the Spanish Association of Parents of People with Autism will begin implementing Pediatric Autism Communication Therapy, a technique that helps autistic children develop their social communication skills.