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Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.
The Novartis Consumer Health Foundation sponsors scientists on a sabbatical leave, visiting the Faculty of Medicine or Sciences of the University of Geneva, the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne, the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, the Geneva-Lausanne School of Pharmacy and the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research. Novartis is a world leader in offering medicines to protect health, cure disease and improve well-being. Their goal is to discover, develop and successfully market innovative products to treat patients, ease suffering and to enhance the quality of life. They also seek to provide a return to shareholders that reflects their performance and to adequately reward those who invest ideas and resources in their company. Created in 1996 through the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz, Novartis is currently organized into three divisions: Pharmaceuticals, which comprises their activities in innovation-driven prescription medicines, Sandoz, which comprises their activities in generic prescription drugs, Consumer Health, which comprises activities in OTC, Animal Health, Medical Nutrition, Gerber formerly Infant & Baby and CIBA Vision. Their name derived from the Latin novae artes, means new skills and reflects their commitment to focus research and development to bring new health-care products to the patients and physicians that they serve. They want to discover, develop and successfully market innovative products to cure diseases, to ease suffering, and to enhance the quality of life. They also want to provide a shareholder return that reflects outstanding performance and to adequately reward those who invest ideas and work in their company. Novartis Animal Health is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health and welfare of animals, both pets and farm animals. They research, develop and commercialize leading animal treatments that meet the needs of pet owners, farmers and veterinarians. Novartis Animal Health is at the forefront of new and better treatments for the most common pet ailments, such as internal and external parasites, arthritic pain control, renal, heart and allergic diseases as well as insecticides for farm fly and pest control. For livestock and farmed fish diseases, they offer prevention through vaccination as well as therapeutic products to treat parasitic and bacterial infections.
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