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Two miniature horses named Mystery and Lunar are bringing comfort and joy to sick children at a Chicago hospital. Animal therapy, usually using dogs, is a growing trend in hospitals that may help in the healing process. (Dec. 4)
"I want one...."
SOUNDBITE: Emily Pietsch, epilespy patient
"They don't judge, and they're so sweet."
SOUNDBITE: Jodie Diegel, Owner, Mane in Heaven
"We have been in nursing homes and homes for the disabled.//This is our very first...
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About 100 workers in Oakland, California's medical marijuana industry voted to join the Retail, Statewide Agriculture, Food Processing and Community Patient Care Union. It's believed to be the first case of cannabis workers unionizing in the country.
HEADLINE: California marijuana workers vote to unionize
CAPTION: About 100 workers in Oakland, California's medical marijuana industry voted to join the Retail, Statewide Agriculture, Food Processing and Community Patient Care Union....
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Hagel looks at military's latest prosthetics technology and Boston Dynamics robot
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel was given hands-on demonstrations on Tuesday of some of the newest research from DARPA, the military's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency programme.
Fred Downs Junior, an old friend of Hagel's who...
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Clinton announces agreement to cut prices of HIV and AIDS treatments for children
1. Wide of former US President Bill Clinton and Chief of the governing Congress party Sonia Gandhi lighting traditional lamp to inaugurate the event (AUDIO: Applause)
2. Wide side view of Clinton and Gandhi lighting lamp, audience in...
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Mother treated after giving birth at height of floods, aerials, makeshift health facility
Army and private doctors have set up scores of roadside hospitals and camps to treat flood victims in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir.
The flooding has killed 200 people in India, where anger and resentment is mounting over what...
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MEXICO: MEXICO CITY: FIRST ARTIFICIAL HEART TRANSPLANT PATIENT
Spanish/Nat
A 21-year-old student who was only given a few days to live, has become Mexico's first artificial heart transplant patient.
Martin Ramirez was suffering from an infection that weakened his heart and endangered his other vital...
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Slovakian spa helps people literally chill out by putting them in a chamber at -120 degrees C
1. Men in cryotherapy cooling chamber
2. Wide people waiting for cryotherapy
3. Nurse distributes leaflets about the therapy
4. People read description
5. SOUNDBITE: (Slovak) Radovan Mahacek, first time visitor to the centre:
"I hope...
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Inquest into Iranian conjoined twins'' failed operation
13 February 2004
1. Exterior Inquest Court
2. Flag of Singapore
3. Iranian conjoined twins at news conference
13 February, 2004
4. Various exteriors of inquest court, Keith Goh walking out
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Keith Goh, lead...
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S.Africa - Spread Of Aids Prevention
The spread of Aids in southern Africa will be one of the major
issues confronting Pope John Paul II on his current visit to the
continent. Reports suggest that at least 12 per cent of South
Africa's population will be HIV-positive by the...
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Curvaceous figures celebrated with dance craze
Abidjan - March, 2008
1. Medium shot of DJ Kedjevara dancing with his dancers, a female dancer shaking her bottom
2. Close up of the boy watching
3. Close up of dancer shaking her bottom
4. Audience applauding
5. Various mid shots of...
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Incense, massage and mud baths for pampered pets
AP Television
Singapore - October 10, 2011
1. Petopia owner Marcus Khoo dries , Japanese Spitz called Cupcake
2. Tight pan of jars of mineral clay powder
3. Tight shot of mixed clay being scooped up
4. Tight shot of clay being applied...
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Making blood in a laboratory
Andrews Air Force Base, US, April 20, 2010
1. Pan of injured US soldiers being transferred from a military plane to an ambulance
Kandalay, Afghanistan, September 22, 2011
2. Mid shot of American soldier firing rifle
3. Mid of soldier...
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INDIA: TRADITIONAL HERBALIST CLAIMS AN AIDS ANTIDOTE
Hindi/English/Nat
As medical science struggles to find a cure for AIDS, some traditional therapists in India claim they have found it already.
The latest herbal specialist to claim an AIDS antidote says his medicine can reverse the...
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The woman who underwent the nation's first face transplant at the Cleveland Clinic is now speaking out to encourage people to become organ donors.
HEADLINE: First face transplant patient, organ donor champion
CAPTION: The woman who underwent the nation's first face transplant at the Cleveland Clinic is now speaking out to encourage people to become organ donors. (Sept. 15)
After...
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INDIA: CONFERENCE ON HYPOSPADIA
English/Nat
An international workshop on children suffering from hypospadia, a condition which leaves them with an undetermined sex, is being held in Delhi in order to create awareness about the subject in the medical fraternity as...
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Patrick Swayze diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
AP Entertainment - File
20th August 1997
1. Various Patrick Swayze gets star on Walk of Fame
AP Entertainment - File
LA, 7th April 2004
2. Various Patrick Swayze at Kill Bill Vol 2 US premiere
AP Entertainment
LA, 24th February...
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The number of people living with HIV beyond middle age offers new medical challenges
HEADLINE: HIV patients living longer, aging faster
CAPTION: With modern medicine helping people with HIV to live longer, growing evidence is suggesting that those who have spent decades battling the virus may be aging prematurely. This...
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2 boys injured in Iraq bombing leave for UK treatment
1. Various of Ali Abbas (in white shirt and red tie) sitting next to Kuwaiti health minister Mohammed al-Jarrallah on bus at airport waiting to board plane to take him and other injured boy to UK for treatment
2. Close up other injured...
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Supporters of Fernandez hold overnight vigil ahead of her surgery
1. Wide of supporters of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez gathered in front of hospital where she will have surgery
2. Various of people gathered
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Guillermo Cogle, supporter of President Cristina...
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WRAP Treatment of displaced people fleeing violence, ADDS refugees in Mozambique
Maputo province, 25 kilometres south of the capital Maputo, Mozambique - 27 May 2008
1. Wide of Transit Centre
2. Cutaway Red Cross flag
3. Mid of tents
4. Various family members seated on ground
5. Close up bandaged foot
6. Mid of...
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Hospital overwhelmed with hundreds needing eye treatment
Kabul, 30 July 2011
1. Wide exterior of Noor Eye Hospital
2. Close of sign reading (in various languages) ''Noor Eye Hospital''
3. Wide of patients in waiting area
4. Mid of women in full burqas in waiting area
5. Various of child who...
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Protests outside Chinese embassy, local patient care
Pretoria - 1 December 2010
1. Wide of AIDS activists gathered outside the Chinese Embassy
2. Chinese flag flying above the Embassy
3. Wide shot demonstrators, line of police
4. Set up shot Nonkosi Khumalo, AIDS activist with the...
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Various - Jordanian Hea Shaan Seeks Transplant
A young Jordanian girl crossed the River Jordan on Wednesday
(2/11) and handed samples of her own blood to the Israelis who
will test it hoping to find a transplant donor to save her life.
Heba Shaban, a 12-year-old Jordanian who...
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Whoopi writes about using medical marijuana in debut newspaper column
Whoopi Goldberg says she's in love with her marijuana-vaporizing pen.
In her new column for The Denver Post's Cannabist website, the Oscar-winning entertainer writes that her "vape pen" relieves the devastating glaucoma headaches she...