Our mission is to provide superior medicines which enhance patients' quality of life. At MSD we employ the best people, exceptional ideas and breakthrough research to make world-leading products.

Today, MSD has more than 40 prescription products in key therapeutic areas, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, oncology, neuroscience, infectious disease, immunology and women's health.

MSD also publishes univadis^®, an online news and education resource exclusive for the medical community, designed to support physicians in the goal of improving patient outcomes. This non-promotional service abides by a strict code of practice and content is provided by independent, third parties ensuring it is completely impartial.

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy is one of the developed world's best known and most widely-used medical reference books. It is still published on a not-for-profit basis in 17 languages and available free of charge on the internet.