Merck Congratulates Awardees of 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Discovery Leading to River Blindness Treatment Co-recipient Dr. William C. Campbell Conducted his Nobel Prize-winning ...

The former Merck scientist has spent a lifetime developing medicines that fight parasites. ... 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to N.J. scientist. Updated: Oct. 05, 2015, 11:28 a.m.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 has been awarded "one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections ...

"Merck has donated MECTIZAN for more than 20 years and will continue to do so until river blindness becomes a disease of the past," said Richard T. Clark, chairman and CEO of Merck. "We are inspired ...

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that the company, together with the Mectizan Donation Program, is donating $1 million to the END Fund in support ...

Merck says it has no estimate of how much the effort has cost, but the United Nations says river blindness may be eradicated by 2007. "Merck is really the pioneer," says Jordan Kassalow, former ...

Brian O. L. Duke, a tropical disease expert and early advocate for free drugs to treat river blindness, a vicious and preventable scourge that afflicts the world’s poor, died June 3 at home in ...

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Down by the Wanja River, naked boys swim through the swirling currents with whoops of joy. Women scrub clothes at the water's edge, and farmers, men and women, chop weeds ...

James Waya, 67, lives in North Liwa Village, Uganda. Waya suffers from leopard skin, which affects many people with river blindness. Thanks to The Carter Center and its partners, including the ...

Public Health Officials Confirm Significant Progress Toward the Goal of Elimination of River Blindness in Latin America by 2012 WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Public health officials at ...