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More and more newborn babies are dying annually despite greater knowledge about what kills them, and cheap and simple measures to save them, a global conference in Johannesburg heard Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-experts-ramped-action-newborn.html Health Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:00:01 EST news285262174 A new strategy for ending polio worldwide aims to boost security for violence-plagued vaccine workers and halt polio outbreaks by the end of next year, global health authorities said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-endgame-strategy-aims-polio-outbreaks.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:45:27 EST news284121906 (Medical Xpress)—Life expectancy in the UK has improved over the last 20 years, but levels of ill health have not and the UK is now below average compared with 18 other countries on many important indicators. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-global-burden-disease-picture-uk.html Health Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:50:02 EST news282209824 Bill Gates on Wednesday urged the world to take a page from his corporate playbook and link aid to measurable results, saying a harder-nosed strategy could dramatically reduce disease and poverty. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bill-gates-aid-tied-results.html Other Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:07:32 EST news278744842 Polio cases worldwide reached historic lows in 2012, and for the first time there were no new outbreaks beyond countries already harboring the disease, leaving researchers confident that a massive and re-energized international campaign to eradicate polio is on a path to success, according to presentations today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-experts-polio-virus-pakistan.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:00:06 EST news272044348 (AP)—Shammo Khan walks into a dusty courtyard that reeks of garbage, searching for the fingerprint of a man exhausted by HIV, drug withdrawal and the tuberculosis lesions hijacking his lungs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-india-wages-hi-tech-war-ancient.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:52:17 EST news271867926 Rich nations and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said they had pledged more than 2.6 billion dollars towards family planning in developing countries at a summit in London Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-nations-bln-family.html Health Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:20:36 EST news261238817 Contraceptive use saves the lives of more than a quarter of million women each year, either from death in childbirth or unsafe abortions, according to estimates published on Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-contraception-year.html Health Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:30:06 EST news261116289 A scientist at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital's medical research unit said Wednesday that trials of a new antimalarial drug were encouraging and paved the way for licensing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-gabon-centre-antimalarial-drug.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:02:18 EST news254584932 Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and his wife are to give $220 million over five years to the non-profit biotech firm Aeras to develop vaccines to fight tuberculosis, a company statement said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-gates-foundation-mln-tb.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:20:01 EST news251006904 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a Canadian NGO announced Friday $32 million to fund research for the discovery and development of affordable tools for rapidly diagnosing diseases in developing nations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-gates-canadian-ngo-mn.html Other Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:50:01 EST news243253917 Fake or poor quality malaria drugs are boosting resistance in parts of southeast Asia, a problem that is likely to worsen unless tighter regulations are adopted, US experts said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-fake-malaria-drugs-problem-experts.html Medications Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:40:01 EST news242330965 Nearly a third of all nations in which malaria is endemic are working to eliminate the disease within a decade, according to a new report released Monday in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-malaria-nations.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:18:22 EST news238083493 Global deaths from malaria have fallen by a fifth over the past decade, reflecting an influx of funds to fight the disease with better drugs and mosquito nets, Roll Back Malaria said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-malaria-global-deaths-decade.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:00:06 EST news235064344 The man who reinvented computers and made PCs a household item in most wealthy nations, Microsoft tycoon turned philanthropist Bill Gates, is now focusing his attention on recasting the WC. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-pcs-bill-gates-reinvent-wcs.html Health Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:12:56 EST news230299966