First vaccine against kala azar ready for trial
February 22nd, 2012 - 5:54 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Feb 22 (IANS) The first ever vaccine to prevent kala azar, or visceral leishmaniasis (VL), the world's second largest parasitic killer after malaria, is entering dual clinical trials in ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Bill Gates contributes $750 million to global AIDS fund
January 26th, 2012 - 7:59 pm ICT by BNO News
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND (BNO NEWS) -- U.S. billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday announced his foundation will give $750 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria after ... Read more...
Posted in Technology Industry News |
Global warming could make chocolates expensive
December 27th, 2011 - 5:58 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 27 (IANS) Chocolates could be priced out of your reach - thanks to the impact of global warming as cocoa plantation yield could fall due to rise ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Electronic Nose can sniff tuberculosis
November 6th, 2011 - 3:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) It's a device that can sniff out tuberculosis. A group of researchers from India and the US is developing the hand-held 'Electronic Nose', which has ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
A potent new tool to smoke out mosquitoes
May 10th, 2011 - 4:59 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 10 (IANS) Imagine an insect repellent thousands of times more potent than DEET - the key ingredient in most commercial mosquito repellents - and which also works against ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Rajat Gupta quits Gates Foundation panel
March 29th, 2011 - 11:07 am ICT by IANS
Washington, March 29 (IANS) Rajat Gupta, a former Indian American director of Goldman Sachs Group accused of leaking insider information to Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, has resigned as an ... Read more...
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Azad meets Bill, Melinda Gates
March 22nd, 2011 - 7:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday met software billionaire Bill Gates and wife Melinda, and urged them to continue their support for the fourth phase ... Read more...
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Bill, Melinda Gates meet Health Minister Azad, discuss issues relating to polio vaccination
March 22nd, 2011 - 4:48 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar 22 (ANI): Software billionaire Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, who co-chair the international philanthropic organisation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, called on Union Health and Family Welfare Minister ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Melinda Gates pledges $500 mn more for world’s poor
November 18th, 2010 - 10:13 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Nov 18 (IANS) Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Thursday pledged another $500 million for the world's poor as she hailed a historic moment that will help ... Read more...
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Kudos to 38 US Billionaires who have promised to at least give half of their wealth away
October 21st, 2010 - 9:33 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Oct 21 (THAINDIAN NEWS) 38 billionaires in the United States have promised to give at least half of their fortune away. United States has the highest number of billionaires in ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Chinese billionaire to donate entire fortune
September 7th, 2010 - 5:05 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Sep 7 (IANS) A billionaire has pledged to donate his entire fortune to charity after his death, becoming the first in China to do so.
Chen Guangbiao, chairman of Jiangsu Huangpu ... Read more...
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New tuberculosis (TB) Vaccine could be ready by 2020
July 19th, 2010 - 4:07 pm ICT by admin
By Bobby Ramakant – CNSThe current tools are not enough to control tuberculosis epidemic. The 2009 World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Control Report says that the incidence of TB per capita ... Read more...
Posted in Feature |
Bill Gates signs health projects with Bihar government
May 12th, 2010 - 10:10 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, May 12 (IANS) Microsoft chief Bill Gates Wednesday signed a memorandum on behalf of his foundation with the Bihar government to work on health projects to eradicate polio, kalaazar and tuberculosis ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Latest Aids Pill Undergoing Trial Could Be The Next Medical Revolution
April 6th, 2010 - 8:29 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
April 6, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The 30-year-old conflict against AIDS has generated its share of remarkable triumphs. In America, behavioral transformations and an amalgamation of drug remedies diminished the AIDS-related ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Bill, Melinda Gates donate $10bn for vaccines in developing countries
January 30th, 2010 - 2:35 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 30 (ANI): The decision of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to devote 10 billion dollars to vaccine research, development and delivery in the next ten years has drawn a warm ... Read more...
Posted in World |
President Clinton thanks Israel for field hospital in Haiti
January 29th, 2010 - 1:44 am ICT by BNO News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) – Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday met with Israeli President Shimon Peres, thanked Israel for field hospital in Haiti.Peres arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos, ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Innovation is the key to removing human suffering: Bill Gates
January 26th, 2010 - 10:19 am ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, Jan 26 (IANS) Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Monday that innovation will remain the key to alleviating human suffering around the world.
He was speaking in his second open appraisal letter ... Read more...
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Obama tops world’s most powerful list, Manmohan at No. 36
November 12th, 2009 - 10:16 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, Nov 12 (IANS) After winning a surprise Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama has been ranked by the Forbes magazine as the world's most powerful person, with Prime ... Read more...
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World Bank rural finance scheme to help Indian farmers
June 9th, 2009 - 11:09 am ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, June 9 (IANS) With a $20 million Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation contribution, the World Bank will establish an Agriculture Finance Support Facility to support the expansion of rural ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Six Indians selected for prestigious Gates scholarships
May 6th, 2009 - 6:08 am ICT by IANS
London, May 6 (IANS) Six Indian students have won prestigious Gates scholarships to study at Cambridge - including one who wants to find out if the Harappan civilisation was brought down by ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Health organisations join to address premature, stillbirth
April 21st, 2009 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) With over three billion stillbirths and a billion premature deliveries reported around the world every year, global health organisations Tuesday came together to address the crises.
In ... Read more...
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$635 million effort to wipe out polio in India, Pakistan
January 22nd, 2009 - 11:25 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 22 (IANS) An international effort spearheaded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $635 million towards eradicating the crippling polio disease with focus on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and ... Read more...
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Group of think tanks to shape agriculture, trade debate
December 19th, 2008 - 6:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Global Development Network (GDN), an international associations of think tanks, has launched a four-year project to contribute to agricultural and trade policy debates in South Asia and ... Read more...
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