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Business
Humanitarian Aid
by Marc Reisch And Vivien Marx
September 12, 2005
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 83, Issue 37
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
Pharmaceutical companies are contributing money, products, and services to Katrina's victims
DONATIONS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CASH | PRODUCTS/SERVICES | OTHER ACTIVITY | WEBSITE | |
| Abbott Laboratories | $2 million | Nutritional and medical products worth $2 million | Matching employee contributions 1:1 | www.abbott.com |
| Amgen | $2.5 million | Matching employee contributions 1:1 | www.amgen.com | |
| AstraZeneca | $1 million | www.astrazeneca.com | ||
| Baxter | $1 million | Emergency shipments of home dialysis products and logistics support for delivery | Matching employee contributions 2:1 | www.baxter.com |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | $1 million | Infant formula worth more than $500,000 | Matching employee contributions 1:1 | www.bms.com |
| GlaxoSmithKline | $1 million | Medicines and health care products | Matching employee contributions 1:1 | www.gsk.com |
| Johnson & Johnson | $5 million | Pain treatments and personal care and wound care products worth $250,000 | Matching employee and retiree contributions | www.jnj.com |
| Eli Lilly & Co. | $1 million | Insulin worth $1 million | Matching employee contributions 1:1 | www.lilly.com |
| Merck | $1 million | Vaccines worth $2.6 million and medicines worth $140,000 | Matching employee contributions 1:1 | www.merck.com |
| Nabi Biopharmaceuticals | $50,000 | Emergency supplies of medicines for persons with kidney disease and for dialysis patients | www.nabi.com | |
| Pfizer | $2 milliona | Medicine, consumer and animal health products, logistics support | Matching employee and retiree contributions | www.pfizer.com |
| Ranbaxy Laboratories | Anti-infectives and other medicines | www.ranbaxy.com | ||
| Schering-Plough | $500,000 | Medicines and products, including 100,000 units of sunscreen, worth $2 million | Matching employee contributions | www.schering-plough.com |
| Wyeth | $ 1 million | Free replacement supply for prescriptions | Matching employee contributions | www.wyeth.com |
NOTE: This list is representative of efforts in the industry but not comprehensive. a $1 million for rebuilding hospital and health care centers, $1 million for relief organizations.
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