At the Company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on April 24, 2012, shareholders voted
on five proposals and cast their votes as follows:

1 Election of directors:

                                Shares
Name                        For      Withheld  Broker Non-Votes
Howard E. Cox, Jr.      295,804,507 8,873,209     37,645,187
Srikant M. Datar, Ph.D. 300,990,549 3,687,167     37,645,187
Roch Doliveux, DVM      296,828,568 7,849,148     37,645,187
Louise L. Francesconi   286,588,060 18,089,656    37,645,187
Allan C. Golston        303,678,300  999,416      37,645,187
Howard L. Lance         297,279,851 7,397,865     37,645,187
William U. Parfet       270,659,524 34,018,192    37,645,187
Ronda E. Stryker        288,885,722 15,791,994    37,645,187

2 Ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2012:

Shares
For Against Abstain
338,137,340 3,708,748 476,815

3 Approval of amendment to the Company's Restated Articles of Incorporation to implement a majority vote standard for uncontested elections of directors:

Shares
For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 303,085,368 763,679 828,669 37,645,187

4 Re-approval of the material terms of the performance goals under the Company's Executive Bonus Plan:

Shares
For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 296,736,777 6,580,359 1,360,580 37,645,187

5 Advisory vote to approve the Company's named executive officer compensation:

Shares
For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 257,340,189 44,608,268 2,729,259 37,645,187