Merck to Participate at the Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Conference
September 8, 2014 4:00 pm ET
Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada,
announced today that Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and chief executive
officer; Adam H. Schechter, executive vice president and president,
Global Human Health; and Dr. Roy Baynes, senior vice president, Clinical
Development, Merck Research Laboratories, are scheduled to participate
at the Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Conference in New York on Sept.
9, 2014 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. Investors, analysts, members of the media and
the general public are invited to listen to live audio presentation of
the webcasts at http://www.merck.com/investors/events-and-presentations/home.html.
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