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Vaccines largely safe, U.S. expert panel finds

After a close review of more than 1,000 research studies, a federal panel of experts has concluded that vaccines cause very few side effects, and found no evidence that vaccines cause autism or type 1 diabetes.

The report, issued on Thursday by the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Sciences, is the first [...]

Gates Foundation gives $1.5 bln for women’s health

The program aims to cut across the “silos” of health initiatives focused on one thing — AIDS, for example, or nutrition — and get broader initiatives into place.

“That is in addition to grants that we already make in vaccines, diarrhea, malaria,” Melinda Gates told reporters.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he [...]