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A hormone treatment based on technology used in Pfizer Inc.’s failed inhalable insulin shows promise in fighting the leading cause of maternal mortality.
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Bill Gates is once again the world’s richest person.
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The Rockefeller Foundation marked the centennial of its founding with the announcement this morning of a $100 million global disaster-preparation fund aimed primarily at helping cities handle climate-related or man-made disasters.
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Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline Plc will cut the prices of their cervical cancer vaccines for some countries in the first large-scale effort to get the shots to millions of girls in the world’s poorest regions.
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Hedge-fund manager Paul Singer and hosiery tycoon Sara Blakely promised to donate at least half of their fortune to charity as part of the initiative started by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates.
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Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corp., is seeking a further $1.5 billion in donations to wipe out polio by 2018 and make it the first infectious disease eradicated since smallpox was wiped from the planet in 1979.
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The world’s 200 richest people added $44.6 billion to their collective net worth this week as the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 15,000 for the first time.
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When UBS AG wealth manager Abdallah Najia came to Switzerland from Dubai in March for a week of training, he was as stunned by the message as by the scenery.
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Roman Abramovich, Russia’s eighth- richest person, is the country’s most charitable billionaire.
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Mobile phones are creating opportunities for women in emerging markets to advance in business and society, even as they trail men in adoption of the devices, a panel of technology and philanthropy executives said.
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