25 March 2002
AstraZeneca Officially "One of the Best Places to Work"
Competing for talented employees is a hot-topic with pharmaceutical companies.  More

22 March 2002
AstraZeneca appoints new Marketing Director
AstraZeneca has appointed Rob Wood as UK Marketing Director.  More

13 March 2002
Fifty Undergraduate Students at 23 Universities to Benefit from AstraZeneca Bursary Programme £200,000 Boost for Chemistry Education in United Kingdom
AstraZeneca announced today a bursary programme worth at least £200,000 for students working toward a first degree in chemistry. Financial support, in the amount of ach year, will be provided to 50 students starting their studies in October 2002 at universities across the UK. More

01 February 2002
AstraZeneca R&D Charnwood - achieves ISO 140001 Award
The New Year has started on a high note for the Safety, Health and Environment team at AstraZeneca's site in Loughborough. The international pharmaceutical company's R&D site covers about 70 acres and employs over 1200 people. Staff on site are applauding the success of the team in winning a prestigious international award for the quality and high standards of the management of the environmental impact of the site. The award, known as ISO 14001, is the strongest independent evidence obtainable to measure the success of the management of the environmental impact of the site, based on Bakewell Road, Loughborough. More

02 December 2002
Lego Robots come to Cheshire
Over 300 youngsters from thirteen schools in Cheshire attended the North West Regional Final of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO League Challenge. More

31 July 2002
Safety Theme Inspires 3,000 Primary School Children
Over 3,000 children from primary schools in the Macclesfield and Congleton Boroughs accepted AstraZeneca's invitation to enter the company's annual Calendar Competition this year. They were asked to submit a picture for each month of 2003, illustrating the theme of 'Safety: Any Time, Any Place, Anywhere'. More

20 June 2002
AstraZeneca Sponsors Local Hero Awards
For the fourth year 106.9 Silk FM are organising a Local Hero Awards scheme to recognise unsung 'local heroes' in East Cheshire. Once again AstraZeneca are sponsoring the event. More

20 June 2002
Students Awarded AstraZeneca Science Prize
The annual AstraZeneca Science Prize has been awarded to a team from Fallibroome High School in Macclesfield, Cheshire, as overall winners of the East Cheshire regional finals of the CREST (CREativity in Science and Technology) Science Awards. More

27 May 2002
Award for a caring bus driver
More than 2000 passenger journeys are made every month by the Kinch Bus service route 7 and keeping travellers happy for all those trips is no easy task. More

23 July 2002
Clegg sees science in action
East Midlands MEP Nick Clegg took time out from European affairs yesterday to see how staff at a hi-tech Leicestershire company are helping defeat diseases across the world.  More

27 May 2002
A new partnership with the Red Cross strengthens the fight against TB
AstraZeneca and the Red Cross have joined forces in the fight against tuberculosis - the single largest cause of adult death from infectious disease in the world. The company has committed £300,000 over the next three years to helping the charity deliver a programme designed to help combat TB in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan where over 9,400 new cases are diagnosed each year.  More

24 May 2002
Exercise initiative puts patients back on their feet
More than 1000 people who refuse to take disease and disability lying down have been given a new lease of life by a scheme aimed at treating ailments with physical activity. More

25 April 2002
St. Ann's Hospice Benefits From AstraZeneca Matched-funding Awards Scheme
Wilmslow Round Table has received a donation of £1,500 from AstraZeneca to acknowledge their fundraising for St Ann's Hospice in Cheadle. More

24 April 2002
MEPs fact finding at AstraZeneca
Two East Midlands members of the European Parliament were in Loughborough recently to find out all about the latest developments at AstraZeneca R&D Charnwood, the town's medicines research company. More

12 April 2002
Tree Planting at Local Primary School Celebrates AstraZeneca Recycling Success
Children attending Hurdsfield Community Primary School are now greeted by a newly-planted hornbeam tree, donated by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to celebrate the success of a waste recycling scheme at its Macclesfield manufacturing site. More

11 April 2002
Daffodils are blooming for AstraZeneca and Marie Curie Cancer Care
A spectacular Show Garden at this year's RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park has been designed by the award-winning team from Summers Gardens with major sponsorship by AstraZeneca and the benefiting charity being Marie Curie Cancer Care. More

11 April 2002
Local School Children go Outward Bounding
Forty-Eight youngsters from secondary schools in Macclesfield, Holmes Chapel, Wilmslow, Knutsford and Alderley Edge are next week (13-19th April) attending an Outward Bound Course at Ullswater in the Lake District, sponsored by AstraZeneca. More

11 April 2002
Lions carnival promises a fun day out
Loughborough Lions May Day Carnival, at Southfields Park on Monday 6 May, promises to be the best ever. More

25 March 2002
Joint effort helps asthma sufferers
A local Rotary Club has joined hands with Loughborough medicines research company to help asthma patients of a village health centre. More

19 February 2002
Company patronage helps local band
One of Loughborough's best known local companies has become a patron of Hathern Band, one of the best brass bands in the Midlands. More

11 February 2002
AstraZeneca's donation helps local charity
The workload of a vital local charity which gives help and advice to families with young children, has increased so much that it has had to move to larger premises on Derby Road. More

11 February 2002
AstraZeneca helps group to make Headway
Support for local people with a brain injury, their carers and families, is provided by Headway, a charity which is based in Leicester but which holds a fortnightly meeting for people in the Loughborough area. More

08 February 2002
Nick Baker, TV Presenter is to Launch 'Whose Water' Bringing Fun into Science 11.30am Wednesday 20th February 2002. Venue: Paignton Zoo
Nick Baker, popular Wildlife Television Presenter, will be launching 'Whose Water' Science Year project in the Green Room at the Education Centre in Paignton Zoo at 11.30am on Wednesday 20th February 2002. More

08 February 2002
Teachers get a glimpse into the discovery and development of new medicines when they visited Loughborough's Research Company AstraZeneca, as part of Science Week
The teachers, not all science specialists, came from secondary schools in the area. All were intent on finding out how AstraZeneca went about its quest to discover and develop new medicines to fight the many diseases which cause ill health - particularly treatment for asthma, bronchitis and arthritis. More

25 January 2002
College students discover the real world
Although a college course will give youngsters a good basis for their future employment there is nothing like finding out what it is really like in the outside workplace. More

03 October 2002
A new therapy offers relief to eight million
The world's largest selling medicine prescribed by doctors to treat one of the most common conditions to afflict mankind, is about to be overshadowed with the introduction of a better alternative, esomeprazole. The condition comes under a little-known name - gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). To most of us it is more familiar in such terms as heartburn (a burning feeling rising from the stomach or lower chest up towards the neck) and indigestion, but for sufferers it can have a marked effect on how they live day-to-day. This new medicine may allow sufferers to take back control of their symptoms and they may no longer have to be tied to a routine of taking a tablet every day, as esomeprazole has been shown to quickly and effectively control symptoms when heartburn occurs. In clinical studies of patients with GORD,* after six months treatment, approximately 90 per cent of patients were able to control symptoms effectively by taking a daily dose of esomeprazole 20 mg as and when needed for heartburn relief.  More