... accumulated through research. Fights with insurance companies can be frustrating and drawn out, so if you're also fighting disease, you might need to enlist a spouse or friends to make phone calls and write letters, to the insurer, to legal ...

... same day in Oslo. The science awards tend to be for breakthroughs that often pave the way for major advances in fighting disease and poverty. Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in medicine last year for discovering that the body uses nitric ...

... his country once bestowed upon him. Where others have devoted themselves to making money, he has spent 22 years fighting disease in Africa, solving disputes and building houses with Habitat for Humanity. As a former speechwriter, I stand in ...

... elections. He founded The Carter Center to institutionally continue good works and thankless tasks. "Waging peace, fighting disease, building hope," proclaims the center's web site. It's not hyperbole, it's fact. Then, a week ago ...

For those who missed cancer expert Dr. Judah Folkman's talk to a standing-room only crowd at a tissue engineering conference, here, in his own words, is the take-home message:

... The organization has total assets of $28.8 billion and spends about $1.4 billion a year on programs including fighting disease in poor countries, she said. Wielding that much money and power is a burden that never leaves her, Mathews said ...

... scientists believe man-made life forms will one day offer the potential for solving a variety of problems, from fighting diseases to locking up greenhouse gases to eating toxic waste. Bedau figures there are three major hurdles to creating synthetic ...

... these antioxidant nutrients can protect the immune cells from free radical damage, the immune system is stronger for fighting diseases and infections. The body constantly makes new white blood cells to fight off infections when you are sick. Good ...