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Here's a Reality Check on Mark Zuckerberg's $3B Plan to End Disease

Here's a Reality Check on Mark Zuckerberg's $3B Plan to End Disease

Play FacebookTwitterGoogle PlusEmbed Priscilla Chan on $3 billion giveaway, husband Mark Zuckerberg, daughter Max 4:52 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blogFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have made headlines and earned praise for their pledge to spend at least $3 billion over the next 10 years "to cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children's lifetime."Zuckerberg and Chan admit the task won't be easy.But that may be an understatement.The National Institutes of Health, which funds much of the same basic biomedical research that Zuckerberg and Chan's new initiative will, spends 10 times that much every year — and there is still plenty of disease to go around.


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Thousands Walk in Rochester to Help End Alzheimer's Disease

Thousands Walk in Rochester to Help End Alzheimer's Disease

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Thousands of people here in Rochester walked this morning as part of a nationwide fundraiser to end Alzheimer's disease.Organizers say the annual Walk to End Alzheimer's is the Alzheimer's Association's largest fundraiser of the year.More than 600 communities across the country are doing the walk to raise awareness and funds for local Alzheimer's care, support and research.Rochester's event kicked off at Monroe Community Hospital this morning with plenty of people supporting and representing those living with the disease and their caregivers.


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Zuckerberg and Chan Pledge $3B To Help End Disease

Zuckerberg and Chan Pledge $3B To Help End Disease

Zuckerberg and Chan Pledge $3B To Help End DiseaseFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a goal that's even more ambitious than connecting the entire world to the internet: He and his wife want to help eradicate all disease by the end of this century.Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are committing $3 billion over the next 10 years to accelerate basic scientific research, including the creation of research tools -- from software to hardware to yet-undiscovered techniques -- they hope will ultimately lead to scientific breakthroughs, the way the microscope and DNA sequencing have in generations past.The goal, which they are unlikely to live to see accomplished, is to "cure, prevent or manage all disease" in the next 80 or so years.They acknowledge that this might sound a crazy, but point to how far medicine and science have come in the last century -- with vaccines, statins for heart disease, chemotherapy, and so on -- following millennia with little progress.


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Jerika Bolen, Teen With Rare Disease Who Wanted to End Life, Dies

Jerika Bolen, Teen With Rare Disease Who Wanted to End Life, Dies

Jerika Bolen, a 14-year-old girl with spinal muscular atrophy type 2 (SMA), died on Thursday after entering hospice care to end her own life.With medical interventions, SMA – which causes muscle weakness, trouble breathing and feeding difficulties – is not fatal, although it is life-threatening.Bolen's wishes to end supportive care, and thus end her life, sparked controversy after her hometown of Appleton, Wisconsin, threw her "one last dance" in July.Disability rights advocates protested the teen's decision, trying to convince Bolen, her family and child protective services that Bolen should not be allowed to die.