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Chinese family embracing exercise and the outdoors
Patient Perspectives

AI Nurse evolving for health failure patients in China

Mosaic tile art
Discovery

Need for new heart disease medicines drives wave of potential therapies

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The inflammasome
Discovery

Breaking a vicious cycle of inflammation

Investigator leaving a hut in Kenya
Access to Healthcare

Novartis Access impact evaluation: progress update on our work with Boston University

Raphael, 24, got his blood pressure tested when he dropped into a local shop. Shopkeeper Dorothy has been trained to conduct the blood pressure screening.
Access to Healthcare

Improving lives through community-based care

Big data reveals new patterns
Discovery

Embracing big data to understand complex diseases

Novartis calls for end to gender inequality gaps in COPD care on International Women’s Day #PressforProgress
Access to Healthcare

Positive gains are needed to accelerate change for women with lung disease

B-cells mount an attack
Patient Perspectives

Targeting the roots of Sjögren’s syndrome

Scientist with gloves writing a number on a test tube
Patient Perspectives

Led by Steven Taylor, the Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation is raising awareness of a little-known autoimmune disease

Syrian refugees ponder an uncertain future: Zakiya, one of the daughters of Hamid, with her son Waleed, age 10, in their makeshift home.
Access to Healthcare

Helping Syrian refugees manage chronic diseases