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The Healthcare Innovation Award contributes to an ambitious partnership between GSK and Save the Children, which aims to save the lives of a million of the world’s poorest children.

 GSK (http://www.gsk.com) and Save the Children today announced the launch of their second annual $1 million Healthcare Innovation Award at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health meeting in South Africa. The award was established to identify and reward innovations in healthcare that have proven...

CNNMoney | by Jillian Eugenios

Where are the wealthiest people on the planet? These economies boast the highest number of people whose net worth exceeds $1 billion, according to Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census 2013.

United States

No. of billionaires: 515

Total net worth (2013): $2,064 billion

Land of the free, home of the billionaires? Nearly a quarter of the world’s wealthiest — those with more than $1 billion in assets — are based in the U.S., according to 2013 data from Wealth-X and...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — More of the world’s children are surviving to their fifth birthday, but 6.3 million still died last year, mostly from preventable causes, the U.N. children’s agency said Tuesday.

That’s nearly 17,000 young children dying every day. And while death rates have been cut in half since 1990, the world still is short of meeting a goal of a two-thirds decrease in child mortality by next year, the report by the United Nations Children’s Fund...