Â£4bn to research killer diseases
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Britain's largest medical research charity pledges Â£4bn to investigate the world's killer diseases.
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Health chiefs are considering a new jab to protect babies against bacterial meningitis, septicaemia and pneumonia.
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Global health leaders meeting in  Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on  medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make  those now on the market available to the poor.
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A new research conducted at Monash University has revealed that primitive nerve cells, grown from stem cells in the lab, could reduce symptoms of an MS-type illness when injected into mice.
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An automated-screening initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health could finally provide the tools researchers need to turn knowledge of the genome into new drugs.
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Researchers win a grant to help produce a drug that could stop flu and other diseases from replicating in humans.
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More than 100,000 women will be asked today to join a huge investigation into the causes of breast cancer. The study, the first in the world of its kind, will cost Â£12 million
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Health experts and drugs companies on Friday urged rich countries to come up with public funding to spur development of a human vaccine against a pandemic strain of the bird flu virus that could kill millions of people around the world within months.
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Scientists and entrepreneurs call for the creation of a charitable foundation to promote and fund UK stem cell research.
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Â£300m is being invested to tackle the UK's sexual health crisis after figures show infection rates are rising unchecked.
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UK scientists uncover a vital clue to stopping cancers spreading around the body, according to research.
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Genes involved in the devastating disease Lupus, which affects 50,000 people in the UK, are identified.
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With doctors increasingly worried about "superbugs," deadly infections that can defeat most known drugs, a small Cambridge biotechnology firm has won $70 million in venture capital money to develop a powerful antibiotic from a microbe discovered in Haitian dirt.
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A World Health Organisation study of healthcare in Africa says disease can only be tackled by urgent investment.
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British scientists have supported the  use of primates in medical research to improve human health and  reduce deaths from disease but only if no alternatives were  available.
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Science & environment: Tens of thousands of children could be diagnosed earlier and more cheaply after pioneering research.
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Millions to be screened for the first time by NHS in attempt to wipe out one of England's killer conditions