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Research ensures 50 million vaccinated against deadly brain infection
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Research at the University of Liverpool has supported the vaccination of more than 50 million people against a zoonotic brain infection that affects thousands of children across Asia every year.
Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations Rewards Bold Ideas
May 06, 2009 |
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Even in troubled times, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recognize innovation for the betterment of mankind takes money. The Gates Foundation is providing $100,000 to 81 cutting edge health researcher ...
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Bill Gates quits Facebook over 'too many friends'
Jul 26, 2009 |
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced to give up on the social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his friend.
Bill Gates: Better data mean better schools
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The U.S. must improve its educational standing in the world by rewarding effective teaching and by developing better, universal measures of performance for students and teachers, Microsoft co-founder ...
Gates Foundation goes after TB
Sep 20, 2007 |
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Seattle, has announced $280 million in grants to fight a growing tuberculosis problem.
$15M allocated to AIDS vaccine research
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 02, 2007 |
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A U.S. scientist who co-discovered the virus that causes AIDS will use a $15 million grant to develop a potential vaccine.
Gates: $258 million for malaria research
Oct 31, 2005 |
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given $258 million in malaria research grants. The foundation says malaria kills an estimated 2,000 African children each day and takes the lives of more than 1 million people wor ...
Tobacco use will continue, possibly grow, during recession, expert says
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Even though tobacco use is expected to kill 6 million people worldwide and drain $500 billion from the global economy each year — according to a new report co-authored by a Georgia State University tobacco expert — the recession ...
How much is the world spending on neglected disease research and development?
Feb 04, 2009 |
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The first comprehensive survey of global spending on neglected disease R&D, published in this week's PLoS Medicine, finds that just over $US 2.5 billion was invested into R&D of new products in 2007, with three diseases—HIV/AIDS, TB, an ...
Drug-resistant TB may 'spiral out of control,' U.N. says
Apr 02, 2009 |
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The world is on the cusp of an explosion of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases that could deluge hospitals and leave physicians fighting a nearly untreatable malady with little help from modern drugs, global experts said Wednesday.
New fund promises low-cost malaria treatment
Apr 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A $225 million fund to provide low-price anti-malaria medicine around the world was launched in the Norwegian capital Friday to fight a disease that kills 2,000 children a day.
New digital map of Africa's depleted soils to offer insights critical for boosting food production
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Responding to sub-Saharan Africa's soil health crisis, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) announced today an ambitious new effort to produce the first-ever, detailed digital soil map for all 42 countries ...
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