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Two agreements were signed to this effect under the technical cooperation between Bangladesh and German.
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Germany's coalition government overcame  months of bickering on Thursday and agreed a compromise on  health care reform viewed as a test of Chancellor Angela  Merkel's leadership and her government's stability.
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German physicians have pioneered a way to create and transplant bone grafts from one part of a patient&#39;s body to another. The work of Patrick H. Warnke and associates at the University of Kiel is summarized
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(InfoWorld) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on politicians, business leaders, and researchers to cooperate more closely in helping the country secure a leading position in the global IT sector and pledged money to support collaborative efforts. Speaking at Germany's first-ever IT summit on Monday, Merkel said communications and telecommunications companies need to hook up with the country's traditional heavyweights such as the automotive and chemical sectors and collaborate more intensively in the area of software engineering. Already today more than half of the innovations in the automobile industry are based on software. The Chancellor pledged â¬1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) in grants over the next three years to support innovation in Germany's IT sector. The funds will come from the federal government's â¬15 billion high-tech investment program approved earlier this year. But Merkel was quick to add that in the future, industry grants should be carefully targeted and not simply "poured out of a watering can." Germany has seen its strong tradition of technological innovation steadily wane over the years, due in part to high labor costs that have deterred investment and declining university standards that have caused a brain drain. The country claims a number of IT achievements, including the Zuse, seen by some as the first freely programmable computer, and the MP3 audio compression algorithm. SAP Chief Executive OfficerÂ Henning Kagermann was blunt in his assessment of Germany's IT standing. Although the communications and telecommunications sectors combined employ around 800,000 people and generate annual revenue of around â¬150 billion, making it the country's largest industrial sector, "in a global comparison, we are not a leader and, even worse, we are falling behind," he said. In addition to funds, the government initiative calls for immigration policies designed to attract talented researchers from around the world, and grants to keep gifted students in the country.
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Health industry, tech firms, government agencies might collaborate to \
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new package of grants to fight tuberculosis, bringing to $740 million the amount it has spent or committed so far on the disease.
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A portion of sales goes to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.
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STRASBOURG, France  - Health patients in the   European Union should have the right to be reimbursed by their   national authorities for treatment taken anywhere in the bloc,   the EU's top health official said on Tuesday.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 29 (IPS) - The European Union's only directly elected  body is demanding increased aid for basic health and education in  poor countries before it approves next year's budget for the  27-nation bloc.
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The countries plan to raise at least $300 million next year to help pay for the treatment of children with AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday her conservative Christian Democrats and their Social Democrat coalition partners had agreed a compromise on health care reform regarded as vital for her government's ...Comment
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday that four grants totaling more than $68.2 million would go to fight three tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people each year in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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German health services lose up to 20 million euros (25.8 billion dollars) every year through fraud and corruption, a respected global watchdog said in a report.
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By Joe Orso, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Mar. 8--Great Rivers United Way will give out $50,000 in venture grants to nonprofit health and human service agencies in the area, officials said Wednesday.
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The Illinois Foundation for Health Care helps the flow of services funded by Medicare, the federal health-care program for seniors, to beneficiaries in Illinois.
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A health system starved by years of chronic under-funding got a significant cash injection today as Paul Martin announced a $41-billion âdeal for a decade.
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The Canadian government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced C$139 million ($118 million) in funding on Tuesday for a Canadian initiative in the search for an HIV/AIDS vaccine.