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In the annals of pharmaceutical fumbles--and there have been some real doozies--the flu-vaccine shortage of fall 2004 occupies a special place. That crisis began when California biotech company Chiron was forced to dump 48 million doses of its flu vaccine, nearly half the U.S. supply.
Reason: British health inspectors had detected bacterial contamination at Chiron's plant in Liverpool, England, and shuttered the facility. Grumpy lines formed at clinics across the U.S., and angry investors pounded the stock, while profits sank. As if that weren't bad enough, Chiron closed another plant in Germany last...
At first, Bill and Melinda focused their international giving on population control and reproductive health. But soon they learned that better health leads to smaller populations. In 1998, Bill Sr. came across a progress report from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a small nonprofit organization, based in New York City...
Each day, the Gates foundation receives about 140 requests for money or help. (It was a major sponsor of the TIME Global Health Summit, held in New York City in November.) Until now, the foundation has focused on education, libraries, global health and Seattle-area initiatives. But it may soon...
And so another alliance was born: unlikely, unsentimental, hard nosed, clear eyed and dead set on driving poverty into history. The rocker's job is to be raucous, grab our attention. The engineers' job is to make things work. 2005 is the year they turned the corner, when Bono charmed...