But experts warn that drugs alone will not win it, after the pharmaceutical giants agree to work together on an ambitious project.
A research group says the mental and physical costs of misdiagnosis are simply too high.
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/ 20 January 2012
Counterfeit and substandard drugs threaten the fight against malaria in Africa.
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/ 17 January 2012
Scientists have called for measures to prevent the circulation of counterfeit and substandard malaria medicines that threaten millions of lives.
Around 40% of all cancers are caused by things we have the power to change.
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/ 23 December 2011
Nuns should be given the contraceptive pill to reduce the high death rates from breast, ovarian and uterine cancer a result of their childlessness.
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/ 9 December 2011
The HIV crisis shifted attention from the issues of unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions.
New portable technology shows promise in identifying patients who may not be in the vegetative state they were thought to be.
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/ 24 October 2011
Millions of children’s lives could be saved by a new vaccine that has been shown to halve the risk of malaria in the first large-scale trials.
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/ 11 September 2011
Chocolate may be good for the heart, scientists say, which is good news indeed.