After a two night stint in the hospital, Chief Justice William Rehnquist is discharged Thursday after undergoing treatment for a fever.

Rehnquist, 80, was taken to the Virginia Hospital Center on Tuesday for tests and observation

An experimental treatment shows positive results for helping patients suffering from diabetes regain their ability to make insulin.

Such help would lessen the need for shots to regulate normal blood sugar levels

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The problems developed in women given the standard intravenous drug doxorubicin along with a newer drug called docetaxel. The two drugs are frequently used alone to treat breast cancer. Scientists have been exploring the effects of combining them, with mixed results

Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates pledged $250 million for a total of $450 million to a project he initiated in 2003 to get the world's top scientific minds to find remedies of the deadliest diseases.

He announced the contribution while delivering a speech as a featured speaker at the World Health Organization's annual assembly on Monday

According to a recent report on the situation in Angola, the death toll from the Marburg virus outbreak is now 292, out of the 336 known cases.

WHO spokesperson Aphaluck Bhatiasevi, in a phone interview with Reuters said, "We've seen new cases in new municipalities that don't have obvious links to earlier cases of Marburg. We are very concerned about the situation