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When you’re living with a disease, all you want is to feel relief.
To feel improvement. To feel healthy.

As a medicine company that believes health is fundamental to our lives, those are the people we’re working for. The people who are counting on a breakthrough, desperately waiting for science to catch up.

For nearly 150 years, we've been turning science into medicine, taking on the toughest diseases to help improve lives in ways that have changed the course of human health. Today, we continue this pursuit in disease areas like Alzheimer's disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity to help as many people as possible live healthier lives. And we refuse to accept today’s medicine as good enough. We’re continually seeking people, partnerships within and across industries, and others who share our dedication to challenging the status quo in the name of improving health.

We will not stop working hard

...until you get better.
Health gives us the freedom to live the life we ​​want. Our mission is to create medicines that make this possible.

Two women in car

[Anticipatory music plays in the background]

0:02

[A clip of a teen in a pool reaching up and hugging his coach on the edge of the pool.]
Narrator: You'll get better

0:04

[A woman with obesity looks upset and is talking with another woman in a public restroom.]
Narrator: when you're not blamed

0:07

[A man looks in the mirror and buttons up his shirt.]
Narrator: for a condition you can't control.

0:08

[Two women sit in an older pickup truck, the woman with nasal cannula grabs the hand of the other woman in support.]

0:12

[The camera pans across a young Black girl who sits in a dimly lit bedroom.]
Narrator: You'll get better

0:13

[A doctor's office setting where the female doctor is speaking to two females across a desk. The two women listening to the doctor hold hands.]
Narrator: when your care

0:17

[The camera pans across an older Black man with white hair sitting at a table.]
Narrator: doesn't depend on your income.

0:20

[The camera is focused on a parallel bar with a woman's hand gripping it to walk, then pans up to her face marked with determination.]

0:24

[A physical therapist in wet gear coaches a young man on a water bicycle in a pool.]
Narrator: You'll get better

0:26

[Camera pans across a scene with a frustrated young man in a hospital bed with a woman by his side.]

0:27

[Camera shows a woman wearing a hospital gown and cap, then switches to her hand pushing the pain medication button, and a nurse pulling the curtain around her hospital bed.]
Narrator: when your pain isn't minimized, dismissed, forgotten.

0:34

[A Black mother and daughter sit on a couch side-by-side, the daughter looks at her mother supportively.]

0:37

[Camera returns to the woman walking with the parallel bars next to her physical therapist who is cheering her on.]

0:39

[Camera returns to the young man in the pool looking determined and talking to his coach, who is cradling the swimmer's neck in his hands.]
Narrator: We will never

0:41

[Camera returns to the woman in the hospital bed wearing the gown and cap, and she's smiling.]

0:42

[Close-up shot of a woman with her eyes closed and her hands clasped under her chin.]
Narrator: stop trying

0:43

[Red screen with "GET BETTER" letters cut out to show an image of a woman behind them.]
Narrator: to get better.

0:46

[Woman in lab puts on white Lilly lab coat and works with her back to camera.]
Narrator: Because when medicine gets better

0:50

[Flashes through scenes of previous people, they're all smiling and celebrating.]
Narrator: all of us

0:54

[Woman walking using parallel bars slowly removes her shaking hand from the bar to stand on her own, her physical therapist cheering in the background.]
Narrator: can get better.

0:57

[Lilly logo and "A Medicine Company" appear over the last scene.]

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Get better

With the Get better campaign, Lilly reminds
us that everyone has the right to be heard,
understood, and helped. Because everyone
has the right to feel better.
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