Gates Leads $1 Bln Cash Boost for Kids' Vaccines
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A campaign to get life-saving vaccines  to millions of children in poor countries received a $1 billion  cash boost from Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates and the  government of Norway on Tuesday.
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Cisco has donated $1 million as a company, and the Cisco Systems Foundation has pledged at least $1 million more to match donations already made by Cisco employees.
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The U.S. government on Tuesday awarded Sanofi-Aventis a contract worth up to &#36;41 million through 2008 to maintain a supply of eggs year-round that could be used in flu vaccine production.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on  Monday pledged $83.5 million to fight malaria by paying for  better controls, vaccine research and prevention of a disease  that kills more than a million people a year.
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Bulgarians have raised more than leva 1 million (some $690, 000) in a charity campaign for badly ill children initiated by President Georgi Parvanov, his press office said Monday.
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A vaccine against virulent bacterial meningitis could save the lives of nearly 3,000 people over the next decade, at the cost of more than $1 million a life.
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Research to fight the global tuberculosis epidemic got a shot in the arm on Tuesday with $280 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for work to develop more effective vaccines, diagnostic tests and drugs.
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A project to build a pioneering telescope in Chile got a $30 million boost Thursday with donations from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and former company executive Charles Simonyi.
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A biotech startup receives a pile of cash to develop a technology it says can prevent people from getting diseases.
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Google Inc. (GOOG) will have plenty to celebrate at its annual company summer picnic Friday - its debut as a public company gave it an immediate cash infusion of $1.16 billion, not to mention all the millionaires it made of employees and insiders.
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Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates contributed $400,000 to the campaign backing a California ballot measure that would make billions of dollars available for human embryonic
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For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection or death.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - Microsoft Corp   Chairman Bill Gates called on Thursday for a new "creative  capitalism" to help the world's 1 billion poorest who live on  less than $1 a day.
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Aventis Pasteur, the world&#39;s largest flu vaccine manufacturer and the sole supplier of flu shots to the USA this year, will begin preparing for year-round production under a $10
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Five rich countries led by Italy launched a $1.5 billion project on Friday to help develop vaccines they said could save millions of lives in poor nations, and called on others to join them.
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Bill Gates still No.1 after giving away $28 billion; Google founders make the list on company IPO. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Bill Gates can now breathe a sigh of relief.
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13/12/2004 - A non-profit pharmaceutical company, the Institute for OneWorld Health, has been awarded a $42.6 million (â¬32.1m)grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates to find a new way of producing a valuable drug for malaria, which kills more than a million