Angelina Jolie, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton each stood-up and spoke-up at a dinner of the Global Business Coalition on HIV-AIDS, banning together to raise $1.3 million.

Volkswagen of South Africa, Getty Images, MAC Cosmetics, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Virgin United and DeBeers were honored for their work against AIDS

Health ministry officials announce Indonesia is suspected of having more than 50 cases of bird flu. While the announcement includes a reduction of the death rate from five to six, experts are weary of the possibility the H5N1 bird flu virus could set off a pandemic if it gains the ability to be passed easily among people.

Bird flu has killed 65 people in four Asian nations since late 2003 and has been found in birds throughout Russia and Europe. It has the ability to kill one out of every two infected people

A biotech firm that makes an inhaled flu vaccine is signing up with the U.S. government to try to create a version of its vaccine for avian flu.

Maryland-based MedImmune will work with top U.S. government flu experts to develop a new vaccine against the H5N1 avian flu, which has killed 65 people in Asia since 2003

A collaboration of 24 leading human geneticists will look at TB, heart disease, type 1 and 2 diabetes, arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, bipolar disorder and hypertension, in hopes to gain a better understanding of who is at risk, and the development of new treatments.

Researchers in the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC) will analyze over 19,000 DNA samples - 2,000 from patients with each disease, which will be compared with 3,000 samples from healthy people to identify the genetic differences between them

A collaboration of 24 leading human geneticists will look at TB, heart disease, type 1 and 2 diabetes, arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, bipolar disorder and hypertension, in hopes to gain a better understanding of who is at risk, and the development of new treatments.

Researchers in the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC) will analyze over 19,000 DNA samples - 2,000 from patients with each disease which will be compared with 3,000 samples from healthy people to identify the genetic differences between them