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BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Jason Gale |
Bill Gates' Latest Challenge: Polio Bill Gates is brokering deals with drugmakers to make cheaper vaccines available. |
Fast Company November 2002 Chuck Salter |
Richard Klausner Spends to Save Lives At the wealthiest foundation on the planet, a brilliant scientist is giving away Bill Gates's money in pursuit of a lofty goal: solving the world's most pressing health problems. |
Smithsonian November 2005 |
35 Who Made a Difference: Bill Gates The king of software takes on his biggest challenge yet: his foundation is reshaping the landscape of deadly and debilitating diseases in the developing world. |
Salon.com December 15, 2000 Arthur Allen |
Warming to malaria With fears mounting that global climate change may cause the dreaded disease to spread, scientists turn their attention to vaccine research... |
Chemistry World September 16, 2015 Patrick Walter |
A shot in the arm It's heartening news that an Ebola vaccine has delivered outstanding results and that a malaria one shows early promise. |
AskMen.com David Alm |
Why Arguments Against Vaccination Are Wrong Christie and Paul say the issue comes down to personal choice, but whose choice are they protecting? |
InternetNews November 15, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Gates Talks Tech, Health and Education Bill Gates emphasizes American schools as the way to stay competitive in a global economy. |
Smithsonian November 2005 Robin Marantz Henig |
35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning. |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2007 Joanna Breitstein |
Net Effect Ripley Ballou may finally win approval for a vaccine he started testing as an army physician more than 25 years ago - an advance that could mark the beginning of a whole new phase in the battle against one of the world's great killers: malaria. |
InternetNews February 6, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston |
Gates Wants You Bitten by the Charity Bug This week's outrageous antics have a serious motive - to press for better healthcare for underdeveloped nations. |
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 |
Bill Gates' School Crusade Bill Gates' foundation is betting billions that a business approach can work wonders in the classroom. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 |
Is the Global Health System Broken Three points of view on how the global health system can be improved: Making Markets Work by Joe Cerrell... Finding a Unified Vision by Helen Gayle and J. Stephen Morrison... Targeting the Health MDGs by Tore Godal... |
Chemistry World April 2008 Victoria Gill |
Malaria no More? A fresh round of research funding could put an end to the killer disease. |
Bio-IT World Dec 2005/Jan 2006 Salvatore Salamone |
Gates, Clinton Address Global Health Summit The conference brought together leaders in business, government, medicine, public philanthropic groups, and the arts to address and develop solutions to the world's heath crises. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2005 Sarah Houlton |
Global Report: Wanted: Attention Bird flu is number one on the media's agenda. But other diseases need better immunization, too. WHO estimates that in 2002, 2.1 million people died from diseases that could have been prevented by vaccines that WHO currently recommends. |
American Family Physician October 1, 2006 |
Kawasaki Disease: What You Should Know A patient guide: What is Kawasaki disease?... What causes Kawasaki disease?... How can my doctor tell if my child has Kawasaki disease?... How is it treated?... etc. |
InternetNews January 20, 2010 |
First Tweeting, Bill Gates Now Gets His Own Site So what does the world's richest private person think about in his "spare" time? |
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
A Most Victorious Vaccine A review of Jeffrey Kluger's book Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, which chronicles polio epidemics in the first half of the 20th century, and scientific efforts by Salk and his colleagues to create a vaccine quickly. |
BusinessWeek January 29, 2007 Kerry Capell |
GlaxoSmithKline: Getting AIDS Drugs To More Sick People GlaxoSmithKline sells 90% of its vaccines, in volume terms, at not-for-profit prices to customers in the developing world. |
Fast Company September 2006 Tonya Garcia |
Miracle Microbes In the labs of Amyris Biotechnologies, molecular manipulation may yield cheap and effective malaria drugs. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Robert Koenig |
Collaborating Across an Ocean to Stop Malaria Two scholars, one from Mali and one from the United States team up to produce a vaccine for malaria. |
Chemistry World October 2010 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Healing the world Although the role of science has not been strongly emphasised in discourse surrounding the Millennium Development Goals, the work of scientists contributes towards making the world a better place. |
Reason January 2002 Brian Doherty |
WHO Cares? The World Health Organization cares more about its own life than the lives of the poor... |
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Einhorn & Kripalani |
Wanted: New Weapons Against An Old Killer Many of the new malaria medicines are in early stages of development. But with tsunami-hit countries receiving billions in aid there may finally be both the will and the means to tackle one of the world's most dangerous diseases. |
Managed Care October 2007 |
Second DMAA Report Issued The Disease Management Association of America has issued the second volume of the "Outcomes Guidelines Report." |
BusinessWeek July 10, 2006 William C. Symonds |
Grading The Gateses Whether by e-mail or snail mail, reader reaction to a cover story about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's efforts to fix failing high schools was passionate. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2004 Chris Rother |
Evaluating Technology's Role in the Classroom Teachers are using computers more than ever before for everything from instruction to handling administrative chores and communicating with parents. |
Scientific American October 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa One of the world s worst killers can be stopped soon if we make the investment. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2002 Mark Nixon |
How the Web Keeps Parents 'In the Know' As teachers and parents work together to assist students in their studies, the Web has emerged as a highly effective and informative communication tool to meet the needs of today's busy teachers and parents... |
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Kerry Capell |
Vaccinating The World's Poor GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals is betting it can combat Third World scourges -- and still make money. |
InternetNews October 12, 2009 |
Gates Foundation Pegs Public Broadband Costs Goal is to furnish thousands of public institutions with high-speed fiber optic connections. |
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Amy Barrett |
Jonas Salk: He Put An End To Polio In the '50s, Dr. Jonas Salk moved with lightning speed to develop and test a vaccine for polio. |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Pasternak et al. |
Vaccines: Market on the Rebound The vaccine business was safely inoculated against higher profits. But innovative therapies and looser government controls may spark an outbreak. Are pharmaceuticals ready for this opportunity? |
Scientific American September 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa One of the world's worst killers can be stopped soon if we make the investment. |
Fast Company January 2006 Wendy Zellner |
The Gates Effect The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to fix American high schools. Is it laying its enormous bets in the right places? |
Chemistry World November 26, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
Gates Foundation champions open access The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Washington, US, has adopted a new policy that requires free, unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research that the foundation funds |
The Motley Fool July 13, 2006 Carrie Crockett |
2 Bills Are Better Than 1 It remains to be seen exactly how closely Gates and Clinton will work together, but the current trend toward megaphilanthropy among corporate, political, and entertainment giants can only bring a surge of desperately needed help to the global community. |
AskMen.com Dustin Driver |
Most Contagious Diseases Super-contagious diseases spread like wildfire. The best way to battle any of these nasty bugs is to avoid them altogether. Keep your eyes open for these most-unwanted diseases, and stay healthy. |