Sirtris' raison d'etre was to create more potent versions that could combat myriad diseases of aging.

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And our Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will partner with their Indian counterparts to create a new disease detection center in India to combat infectious diseases and promote global health.

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But US President Bill Clinton and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said the targets set out at the Okinawa summit were not only to relieve Third World debt but to offer basic education to all the world's children within 15 years and set new targets to combat killer diseases.

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The largest coordinated effort to combat Neglected Tropical Diseases was announced at an event at the Royal College of Physicians in London.

BBC: Plan to cut burden of tropical disease

In the morning I had the privilege of joining Bill and Melinda Gates at the launch of a special program to combat Neglected Tropical Diseases.

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Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the scourges of our time, and one set of three related genes might be able to combat all those diseases.

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Such tools that measure our biological signals can help advance our understanding of our bodies and aid doctors and scientists in their efforts to combat illness and diseases.

CNN: How mobile tech can influence our brain

Many believe that if a way can be found to grow and harvest these cells, they can be used as replacement tissue to combat a variety of human diseases and ailments, from diabetes to organ failure.

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But Columbia University Professor Ian Lipkin, of the Mailman School of Public Health's Centre for Infection and Immunity, a scientific adviser on Contagion, is not convinced that crowdsourcing is an effective way to combat the spread of contagious diseases.

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