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(McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health) Grand Challenges Canada and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have teamed up on an unprecedented global effort to discover and develop affordable, easy-to-use tools to help developing country health workers rapidly diagnose diseases in rural communities.

The expected result: more timely and appropriate treatment of illnesses in poor countries, potentially saving countless lives.

(Seattle Children's) Seattle Children's receives $2.3 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to complete development of affordable respiratory support device.

(Delft University of Technology) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, the Netherlands) a grant to "Reinvent the toilet".

Aim of this project is to develop new technology for processing human waste without links to water, energy, or sewer lines, and at costs affordable to the poor in developing countries.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to help community colleges use technology to improve and go beyond basic online classes.

(Imperial College London) A new project that aims to help local farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and to provide healthy school meals for local children launches today.

The project, run by the Partnership for Child Development at Imperial College London, is supported in part by a $12 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The chief financial officers of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says he's leaving that post early next year to pursue other interests.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sold off almost all of its pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health-care investments in the quarter ended June 30.

(Burness Communications) The July-August issue of Health Affairs, supported by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is a thematic volume that addresses the challenges of global health care delivery.

The issue will be released at a briefing on July 14, at the Capital Hilton in Washington D.C.

Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's annual report says it brought in $10.4 million in individual donations in 2008, without making an effort at fundraising.