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PHILADELPHIA, Nov 17, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --
The physicians of the world renowned Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, will receive free access to MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com), Elsevier's premier electronic clinical decision support (CDS) tool, as the result of a special new Elsevier campaign.
As part of its "All You Need to Make a Difference" Campaign, Elsevier, a world leader in healthcare and medical publishing and online solutions, will donate a free subscription to MSF for each annual individual MD Consult subscription purchased between Nov. 16 and Dec. 18, 2009. Based on its projections, Elsevier estimates that the month-long campaign could provide 400 subscriptions to MSF's volunteer physicians. Based on average monthly sales, Elsevier estimates that the licenses donated to MSF's volunteer physicians could be worth as much as $140,000.
"We are extremely grateful to Elsevier for choosing to contribute MD Consult subscriptions and financial support to MSF," said Jennifer Tierney, Director of Development, MSF-USA. "Its generosity will help to provide essential emergency medical care to people caught in medical crisis at what could be the most vulnerable moment of their lives. Whether treating children for acute malnutrition, vaccinating against diseases like meningitis or providing aid to people suffering from a natural disaster, Elsevier's contribution will make a substantial difference to our programs around the world."
Both Elsevier and MSF share a commitment to advancing global healthcare through timely, accurate clinical knowledge and data. MSF aid workers operate programs in more than 60 countries, from Cambodia, Guatemala and Armenia, to Burundi, Brazil and Bosnia. Elsevier, in turn, has 7,000 employees working in more than 70 offices worldwide and a track record of partnership with global science and health communities in Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and the U.S. Clinicians in more than 139 countries throughout the world now use Elsevier's CDS tools.
"During this season of giving and compassion, Elsevier wanted to donate CDS tools that will surely enhance care and improve outcomes for patients living in troubled spots of the world," said Randy Charles, Managing Director, Global Clinical Reference, Elsevier. "By supporting MSF physicians through 'All You Need to Make a Difference,' Elsevier fulfills its global healthcare mission of building insight and breaking boundaries. Elsevier is dedicated to providing every clinician in the world with accurate, evidence-based, interactive answers to the most critical clinical questions."
MD Consult will also help volunteer physicians diagnose and treat conditions associated with armed conflict, malnutrition, natural disasters and lack of access to care, and other epidemics. With a world population of close to seven billion people, some 32.9 million have HIV/AIDS, 13,700,000 have tuberculosis and 247,000,000 have malaria, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's Global Health Facts.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.
A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
About Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF):
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides aid in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care or natural disasters. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols. In 1999, MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its work. For more information visit www.doctorswithoutborders.org.
Contact: Tom Reller
Vice President of Global Relations, Elsevier
212.462.1912
T.Reller@Elsevier.com
SOURCE Elsevier
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Companies: Elsevier N.V. (ENL), Reed International P.L.C. (RUK)
PITTSBURGH, Nov 12, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --
Mylan Inc. (Nasdaq: MYL) today announced that its subsidiary Mylan SA has received the prestigious 2009 Elsevier Galien Award for Best Generics Company in Spain. The award recognizes the company's outstanding development in the country during the last year and its introduction of new, high quality generic medicines that generate savings for the national health care system. In addition, Mylan Inc.'s efforts in fighting HIV/AIDS in the developing world and the development of a generic biologics strategy contributed to the decision to grant Mylan SA this honor.
The prize is awarded by Elsevier, a leading international science and health care media company, and is granted annually to a public or private institution that shows an outstanding commitment to improving and promoting public health.
Mylan SA ranks third in Spain's generics market with nearly 200 products. Based in Barcelona, the company also runs a logistics centre in Llica d'Amunt, from where it offers superior service to pharmacies, distributors and hospitals across the country.
Mylan Inc. ranks among the leading generic and specialty pharmaceutical companies in the world and provides products to customers in more than 140 countries and territories. The company maintains one of the industry's broadest and highest quality product portfolios supported by a robust product pipeline; operates the world's third largest active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer; and runs a specialty business focused on respiratory and allergy therapies. For more information, please visit www.mylan.com.
SOURCE Mylan Inc.
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Companies: Mylan Inc/PA (MYL)
Nov 11, 2009 (Hugin SAS via COMTEX) --
News Release
Issued on behalf of Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV
7.00am GMT 11 November 2009
Erik Engstrom appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Reed Elsevier
Reed Elsevier announces that Ian Smith has resigned as Chief Executive Officer by mutual agreement and has with effect from today stepped down from the Boards.
Erik Engstrom, currently CEO of Elsevier, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Reed Elsevier with immediate effect.
Anthony Habgood, Chairman, said:
"Ian has had the difficult task of leading Reed Elsevier during unprecedentedly turbulent economic times. The Boards and I would like to thank him for his contribution in this respect and wish him well for the future.
"Erik is a proven international executive with over 15 years management experience in the media sector in the US and Europe including five highly successful years developing our worldwide Elsevier business as its CEO. He is now well suited to lead Reed Elsevier, to create value for our shareholders and to deliver growth as economic conditions improve."
Erik Engstrom said:
"I am delighted to be leading Reed Elsevier. The business is strongly positioned in attractive markets and I am confident that we have the resources and ambition to be highly competitive. We have talented people across Reed Elsevier who are passionate about what they do and about serving our professional customers."
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About Reed Elsevier
Reed Elsevier is a world leading publisher and information provider targeting the science and medical, legal and risk management, and business to business sectors. We provide high value and flexible information solutions to professional users, with increasing emphasis on internet delivery.
Reed Elsevier employs 33,000 people, including approximately 18,000 in North America.
In February 2009, Reed Elsevier reported revenues for 2008 of GBP5,334/E6,721m.
Reed Elsevier Group plc is owned equally by two parent companies, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. Their shares are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RUK and ENL.
About Erik Engstrom
Mr Engstrom (46) has been a director of Reed Elsevier Group plc and Reed Elsevier PLC since 2004 and a Member of the Executive Board of Reed Elsevier NV since 2005.
Mr Engstrom has been CEO of Elsevier since joining Reed Elsevier in 2004 and under his stewardship sales and profits have grown every year creating a business with turnover of GBP1.7 billion in 2008.
Prior to joining Reed Elsevier, Mr Engstrom worked from 2001 to 2004 at General Atlantic Partners, a private equity firm, where he was a general partner leading their media and consumer investment sector. Prior to that, Mr Engstrom had extensive experience in the publishing sector from 1991 to 2001 as president and chief operating officer of Random House Inc. and, before its merger with Random House, as president and chief executive officer of Bantam Doubleday Dell North America. Mr Engstrom, a native of Sweden, began his business career as a consultant with McKinsey after gaining his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
Mr Engstrom has also been a director of a number of publicly quoted companies, including SCA, a Swedish-based paper products company with revenues of E12 billion in 2008.
Mr Engstrom will be paid an annual salary of GBP1,000,000 and will participate in Reed Elsevier's established bonus and long-term incentive schemes which would deliver an additional 3.5x salary at target.
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Companies: Elsevier N.V. (RDLSF)
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, November 11, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --
- Clinicians Benefit From Easy Access to the Authoritative Information Doctors Trust
Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today that physicians of any specialty will be able to access an entire library of quality medical content on their mobile devices with the launch of MD Consult Mobile. Because physicians frequently travel between medical facilities and hospitals and often are not able to use a computer as they do rounds or perform other tasks away from an office, having access to evidence-based clinical content at any time or in any location is becoming increasingly essential. Optimized for iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphone devices, MD Consult Mobile allows clinicians to consult the same MD Consult content available from a laptop or desktop computer.
"Being able to get to the kind of content I would normally only be able to see if I was sitting at a computer is a big advantage as I go through my day," said Neil W. Rawlins, MD, a Board Certified OB-GYN and Medical Information Officer for Kadlec Clinic in the state of Washington. "Hunting for an unoccupied computer in any medical facility is frustrating, so having access to MD Consult from the palm of my hand is a great leap forward for clinical decision support."
MD Consult Mobile provides a new interface that is optimized for a small screen, making an extensive collection of books, journal articles, Clinics, and guidelines easily accessed and read from a mobile device's web browser. MD Consult Mobile users can browse directly to content via Quick Reference links that cover a growing list of medical topics with pre-organized resources; search books, Clinics, journals/MEDLINE(R), and practice guidelines; view full-text chapters and journal articles plus images of all searchable content; and email content links, to themselves for later review, or to colleagues.
"Physicians require comprehensive access to current information as close to the point of patient care as possible," said Randy Charles, Managing Director, Global Clinical Reference, Elsevier. "The introduction of MD Consult Mobile is a direct result of the feedback of loyal MD Consult customers. Being able to consult this evidence-based clinical content from a mobile device will help our users find efficient clinical answers and make better patient treatment decisions no matter where they happen to be."
MD Consult Mobile is available at no additional charge to individual subscribers, as well as end-users at institutions with site license subscriptions.
"Everyone acquainted with MD Consult will recognize its authoritative sources, such as Cecil Medicine, Braunwald's Heart Disease, Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, the Harriet Lane Handbook, Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2010, the Clinics of North America, leading clinical journals, practice guidelines from professional medical societies, and many more," added Charles. "Now subscribers can access that content by simply opening their phone's Internet browser and typing in m.mdconsult.com."
For more information about MD Consult or MD Consult Mobile, visit http://www.mdconsult.com.
About MD Consult
MD Consult brings the leading medical resources together into one integrated online reference tool to help physicians efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions and make better treatment decisions. A service of Elsevier, a world leader in health care and medical science publishing, MD Consult combines leading medical reference books, medical journals, and The Clinics of North America with patient education handouts, drug information, medical news, and more!
MD Consult is trusted by more than 1,900 healthcare organizations, including 95% of U.S. medical schools. Physicians log over 1.5 million searches every month to find clinical answers and make better treatment decisions.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com) and Cell (http://www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), Scopus (http://www.scopus.com), Reaxys (http://www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (http://www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (http://www.scival.com) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review (http://www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.
A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (http://www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
Tom Reller
Director of Corp. Relations, Elsevier
+1-212-462-1912
T.Reller@Elsevier.com
SOURCE Elsevier
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Companies: Elsevier N.V. (ENL), Reed International P.L.C. (RUK)
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