Healthcare Triage
Low-Value Diagnostic Imaging: Examining Wasteful Spending in the Emergency Department
We’re constantly on the look out for ways to save money in the US health care system. Targeting waste is our best bet to do so. A new study in JAMA Pediatrics points out a contender – low-value diagnostic imaging in the emergency...
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UNUSED 7/9/80 DOCTORS IN CAPE TOWN SPEAK ABOUT RUGBY INJURIES
After deth of rugby player Chris Burger as a result of match injury and injury of William Lamont which ended in paralysis, doctors in Cape Town speak about rugby injuries, saying the nuber of serious injuries have increased in South...
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The device you swallow that could one day sense illnesses
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Scientists have developed a capsule packed with tiny electronics and millions of genetically engineered living cells that might someday be used to spot health problems from inside the gut.
The swallowed...
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Nanoknife treatment for cancer patients
An experimental procedure is being used on cancer patients who have exhausted all conventional forms of treatment.
The Nanoknife uses electricity to help destroy cancer in soft tissue, without harming other organs.
The procedure is...
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Smoking is one of Hungary''s biggest killers
AP Television
Budapest, Hungary - September 14, 2011
1. Wide of Andras Gulyas wheeling his chair into a mobile lung screening bus
2. Mid of Gulyas inside the X-ray bus, talking to staff
3. Mid of staff checking Gulyas''s health...
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Laughter may combat heart disease
AP Television
Baltimore, Maryland, US, August 17, 2011
1. Close of volunteer heart patient John Wallace laughing while connected to an ultrasound and blood pressure cuff
2. Mid of Wallace laughing on hospital next to sonographer
3....
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Claims row with west means some cancer patients can't be treated in Iran
AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately shut...
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For the first time since 2002, the government is releasing new guidelines for breast cancer screening, creating controversy among doctors.
HEADLINE: New mammogram advice causes controversy
CAPTION: For the first time since 2002, the government is releasing new guidelines for breast cancer screening, creating controversy among doctors. (Nov. 16)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
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Massages to lose inches without a workout
AP Television
London, UK, February 28, 2011
1. Wide pan of reflection of therapist and client to mid of therapist and client
2. Close of LPG Endermologie machine working on clients stomach
3. Close tilt down from therapist to client...
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3D printer makes live body parts
Cornell University, Ithaca New York State, USA - 13 February, 2013
1. Wide of rotating 3D scanner scanning grad student in darkened room
2. Tracking shot as laser scans woman's head
3.Close interior shot of 3D Scanner as low intensity...
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Hospital briefing on Sharon's condition
1. Director of Hadassah Hospital, Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef arriving to give statement
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, Director of Hadassah Hospital:
"The expert of the Hadassah medical organisation today evaluated all the...
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Preventing dementia: the game scientists say play ++EMBARGOED++
LEAD IN: Scientists are collaborating with professional gamers to launch a new on-screen adventure to accelerate research for dementia treatment.Vast servers will hold data from people playing Sea Hero Quest and scientists all over the...
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MRI and CT scanners, a pain rehabilitation centre and an underwater treadmill - that's just some of the state-of-the-art facilities pets can benefit from at a new animal hospital in the UK. (Nov. 20)
HEADLINE:Sick pets get high-tech health care
CAPTION:MRI and CT scanners, a pain rehabilitation center and an underwater treadmill - that's just some of the state-of-the-art facilities pets can benefit from at a new animal hospital in...
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Latest APTN cover from Camp X-ray
1. Camp X-ray
2. Prisoners being led by soldiers inside camp
3. Guard tower
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Terry L. Carrico, Commander of Joint Detention Operation Group:
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Just real quick, we have 220...
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Telemedicine- future proofing health care for the elderly
LEAD INA numbe rof elderly patients in rural Greece are taking parts in tests using the latest telemedicine technology. Its hoped the EU funded programme could make healthcare more accessible in remote locations and reduce the burden on...
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RR8146B JAPAN RHEUMATISM, A NEW AND CONTROVERSIAL TREATMENT
Background to Story: Rheumatism affects millions of people
around the world. Traditional treatment usually involves the
use of heat, rest and sometimes surgery and drugs. But a
Japanese doctor has pioneered a new and...
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Medical developers test smallest camera in the world
AP Television News
Omer, Southern Israel - 12 November 2009
1. Close up on plastic model stomach zoom out to developers inserting the camera
2. Close up on camera beside pen tip
3. Wide of man sitting next to computer
4. Wide of...
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Lone screening van fights uphill battle to tackle rising TB cases
How to fight the global epidemic of multi-drug resistant TB is at the centre of the World Health Organisation's meeting in London today (Wednesday 23rd October).
The UK capital has more cases of tuberculosis than any other country in...
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The development of orthopaedic surgery in WWI
AP Television
London, May 27, 2014
1. Close tilt down of old fracture plates used to hold together femur of WWI soldier
2. Close of envelope containing X-ray being taken from table
3. Close of old acetate X-ray being placed on light...