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Ex footballer's charity opens refugee rehab centre
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The Sir Bobby Charlton Centre for Rebuilding and Rehabilitation has opened in Amman.
The centre is the first of its kind in Jordan and will help Syrian refugees recover from physical and psychological...
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UK s Labour accuses govt of secret trade talks with US
The leader of Britain’s main opposition party, Jeremy Corbyn, accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of secretly negotiating the basis of a trade deal with the United States ahead of the country’s departure with the European Union -...
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ONLY ON AP Cheap morphine eases Rwanda pain crisis
On the rolling hills of Rwanda, a nurse is on an urgent mission, by foot, to bring relief to a patient suffering from severe pain. In her bag she carries liquid morphine.
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ONLY ON AP Cheap morphine eases Rwanda pain crisis
On the rolling hills of Rwanda, a nurse is on an urgent mission, by foot, to bring relief to a patient suffering from severe pain. In her bag she carries liquid morphine.
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Some people turn to herbal medicine for virus without proof
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USA: CALIFORNIA: FIGHT TO LEGALISE CANNABIS FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES
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The U-S state of California has become the latest battleground in the fight to legalise cannabis for medical purposes.
24 cannabis clubs in the state are being threatened with closure after a recent decision by the U-S...
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Sick child allowed through Gaza blockade for liver transplant
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Erez checkpoint, Gaza strip - 18 December 2009
1. Wide of Erez crossing
2. Medium of Ahmad Hamoudeh, father of a child sick with cancer approaching terminal
3. Ahmad Hamoudeh taking his sick baby boy from the hands of...
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Discreet, all-in-one HIV test to be made available in South Africa
More than forty million people suffer from HIV/Aids and, according to the World Health Organisation, most of them are here.
Sub Saharan Africa bears the greatest burden, around seventy per cent of the disease worldwide.
Here in South...
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Megann Prevatt, an emergency room nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, describes what it was like treating the wounded from last week's twin bombings at the Boston Marathon.
HEADLINE: First Person: Treating the wounded in Boston
CAPTION: Megann Prevatt, an emergency room nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, describes what it was like treating the wounded from last week's twin bombings at the Boston...
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Medical officials from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital confirm they are treating a patient with the Ebola virus, the first case found in the US. (Sept. 30
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A patient at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the United States, federal health officials announced Tuesday.
The patient was...
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Desperate Indonesians turn to rail ''therapy''
HEADLINE: Desperate Indonesians turn to rail ''therapy''
CAPTION: Sick, poor and desperate Indonesians have been lying down on train rails to give themselves electric track "therapy," despite warnings from authorities. (02 August...
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JAPAN: ROBOT THERAPY (V)
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VOICED BY: Louise Bates
They say a dog is man's best friend, but it seems robots could be a child's best medicine.
A team of Japanese researchers claim the physical interaction between people and pet robots could...
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Conjoined twins in Cairo prepared for Texas operation
1. Pan across ward at Abu el-Reesh Hospital
2. Various, twins
3. Various, medic attending to twins
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Naseer Abdel Al, Head of the Neonatal Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Abu el-Reesh Hospital:
"This case is of a...
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70 hour operation to seperate siamese twins appears to be successful
00:00-00:07 Still parents and children
00:08-00:16 Close-up still of twins
00:17-00:24 Set up shot of M.N. Swami
00:25-00:27 Cutaway of statue
00:28-00:43 SOUNDBITE: (English) M.N. Swami, Nepalese Honorary Consul General in...
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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is studying the popular Music and Memory program to see if music, which helps improve the mood of Alzheimer's patients, can also reduce the use of prescription drugs for those suffering from dementia. (Oct. 30)
(Nats singing)
SOUNDBITE (English): Barb Knutson, daughter of Mike Knutson.
"We feel as though we have been blessed with this whole new experience with dad. We are able to connect in a completely different way, in a very genuine...
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USA: DR BLOBEL WINS NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICINE (2)
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The Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded Monday to Dr. Guenter Blobel of The Rockefeller University in New York City. Blobel who is 63 and a native of Germany, was awarded the prize for his research on proteins -- research...
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Heroin use in Kenya is on the increase
1. Various shots of the Coastal beach.
2. Various shots of drug addict injecting heroin
3. Various shots of recovered drug addicts playing football at rehabilitation centre.
4.SOUNDBITE: (English) Nishaz Walji, Recovered Drug...
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Nine-year-old back home after multi-organ transplant
1. Mid of Alannah Shevenell and her grandfather Jamie Skolas
2. Close up of Alannah
3. Close up of Alannah's hand, playing with magnetic toy
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alannah Shevenell, transplant patient:
(Describing her condition) "It's...
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Sick children arrive for treatment by Israeli medics
1. Italian plane on tarmac
2. Officials on tarmac
3. People getting off plane
4. Various people on tarmac
5. People walking to bus
6. Various children on bus
7. Bus pulling away
8. Wide shot press conference
9. SOUNDBITE: (English)
"new...
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UK: 5 DAY OLD BABY BECOMES WORLD'S YOUNGEST TRANSPLANT PATIENT
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A five-day-old Irish baby has become the world's youngest ever transplant patient, it was revealed on Monday.
Little Baebhen Schuttke, who is now five months old, was given the lifesaving liver transplant operation by...
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The more than 400 children taken from a ranch run by a polygamous sect will stay in state custody and be subject to genetic testing to sort out family relationships that have confounded welfare authorities, a judge ruled.
HEADLINE: FLDS children to undergo genetic testing Monday
CAPTION: The more than 400 children taken from a ranch run by a polygamous sect will stay in state custody and be subject to genetic testing to sort out family relationships that...