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Flexible scheduling helps people with MS to manage their daily work more effectively

Flexibility helps

When you’re suddenly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), how does it affect your working life? The disease is not that uncommon: Statistically speaking, in a company with about 750 employees, one person will be affected by MS. Despite typical symptoms such as chronic fatigue, many people are still able to continue working. Openness and consideration can be a huge help.
Combining the strengths of two companies helps them to tackle big challenges

Cooperating for faster results

In the pharmaceutical industry, cooperating with partners can reduce the time needed to develop drugs, which means faster, more efficient help for patients. Such collaboration requires ideas — not only for the development of technologies, but also for cooperation involving very different partners. Here are some examples of Merck Serono’s experiences.
A meatless treat: In his cuisine, star chef Michael Hoffmann celebrates imaginative and delicious vegetable dishes

Back to the Roots

Meat consumption is considered an indicator of prosperity — the more, the better. However, gourmet chef Michael Hoffmann has dedicated himself to making new discoveries in the realm of vegetarian cuisine. He's moving fennel, Jerusalem artichoke, and celeriac from the edges to the middle of the plate. His recipes are the result of many experiments in the kitchen as well as the garden.
The classic cold treatment Nasivin® has been helping to treat stuffed noses since 1961

Golden anniversary for a great cold treatment

It’s 50 years old and still going strong: Nasivin® cold medicine from Merck first debuted on the market in 1961. The nose drops containing the active ingredient oxymetazoline have since grown into an entire product family that’s helping people to breathe more easily in over 60 countries.
No "shock absorber": If the protective cartilage is not sufficiently replicated, the bones rub against one another, causing considerable pain

Growth factor for new cartilage cells

Like a good spring mattress, healthy articular cartilage is firm and elastic. It cushions blows, carries the body’s weight, and protects the bone surface of joints. Osteoarthritis leads to the softening and eventual loss of this cartilage. Now, however, a new biologic that induces cartilage cell growth may well become the first therapy to treat the causes of this degenerative disease.

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