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Giving Away $29 Billion Earned This Pair a Lifetime Philanthropy Award
Warren Buffett presented the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy to the couple who has given away more money than anyone in the...
Positive Breakthrough: New Antibiotic Discovered in Soil May Solve…
A serious threat to global public health is the increasing resistance to current drugs by the bacteria and viruses that cause infections, such as...
Sharp Decline in Maternal and Child Deaths Globally, New Data Shows
Since the start of an international effort to address maternal and child mortality, millions of lives have been saved globally, a new study shows.
In...
50-cent Paper Microscope Could Save Millions of Lives
Stanford bioengineering professor Manu Prakash was worried that because the developing world could not afford microscopes, they were prescribing malaria pills without identifying specific...
Today We Mark the Great Progress Toward Eradicating Poverty
The world is on track to cut the overall poverty rate in half by 2015, fulfilling a United Nations goal set in the summer...
Now You Can Invest Your Money in a Fund to Advance Vaccines
A new investment fund structured by JPMorgan Chase and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will, for the first time, allow individual and institutional...
Charlize Theron Crusades Against AIDS in South African Homeland
Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron has a starring role in her homeland of South Africa -- helping prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.
Despite...
Students Invent Soap That Saves Lives
An award-winning innovation by two African students could help reduce the devastating impact of the life-threatening disease malaria -- which is spread relentlessly by...
Students Earn $100K Prize for Health Gadgets for Developing World
College students at Rice University who were challenged to design solutions for doctors working in impoverished global communities have won a $100,000 award from...
Biotechnology Firm Run By Teens Wants to Use Mosquitoes to Carry Vaccines
Provita Pharmaceutical is working on a project (with funding from the Gates Foundation) to use mosquitoes to help carry vaccines against the West Nile...
Greeks Help Out in Africa: A Health Center and School Goes Up in Tanzania
When Costas went on safari in the late 90s, he knew he'd arrived in the land of his dreams. But he began to see...
Former Cowboy Flying Free Health Care to Those in Need
Several decades ago, Stan Brock nearly died when a horse kicked him in the head, while working on a ranch in the middle of...
Gates Foundation Gives $1.5 Billion for Women’s Health
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $1.5 billion on Monday in a joint push with the United Nations to improve the health of...
Gates Foundation Pledges $10 Billion For Vaccines in Developing Countries
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $10 billion over the next ten years to help research, develop and deliver vaccines for the world’s...
Time Calls it “The Decade From Hell”… NOT!
Time magazine named this "The Decade From Hell". The sensationalist headline ignores all the good things that happened, so we, at the Good News...
Send a Net, Save a Life and Get Two Tickets to an NBA Game
On Monday, the NBA and the United Nations Foundation launched a promotion that gets you two free tickets to an NBA game if you...
Black Friday Numbers – Good News for Charities? World Vision Gift Giving Up 30 Percent
The faltering U.S. economy is again forcing many U.S. adults to cut back on holiday gift spending this year, but one leading U.S. charity...
Climate Change Policies Will Improve Health, Say Doctors
Senior doctors and health professionals from around the world say major health improvements would result if world leaders tackle climate change. They’ve formed the...
Global Child Mortality Continues to Drop
UNICEF this week released new figures that show the rate of deaths of children under five years of age continued to decline in 2008....
Child Deaths Worldwide Drop by 28 Percent Over Seven Years
Deaths of children under five years of age have plummeted by almost one third since 1990, the United Nations World Health Organization said yesterday....