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A car crash victim gets a rare transplant operation
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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Russia - Yeltsin's heart condition
The skills of Russia's top surgeons will be under the spotlight in the planned heart bypass operation on President Boris Yeltsin. The surgeon expected to lead the team performing the operation is Dr Renat Akchurin, who on Tuesday (24/9)...
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Naples drug lab working on possible Ebola vaccine
The solution to the recent Ebola outbreak could come from a vaccine developed in the CEINGE laboratories, in the southern Italian city of Naples.
The vaccine - so far a successful product of Italian scientific research - has...
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Disease impact, Gilani and US CentCom chief, food relief, aerials
Sohna Hilaya Dam, Thatta, Sindh province
1. Pan of labourers and local residents using rocks to fill embankment of Sohna Hilaya Dam
2. Various of men moving rocks
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Manzoor Sheikh, engineer:
"During this high flood,...
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HONG KONG: BLACK BEARS & BEAR FARMING
English/Nat
The Hong Kong-based Animals Asia Foundation signed an unprecedented agreement with the Chinese authorities on Monday to release 5-hundred Asiatic Black Bears from primitive bear farms.
Thousands of farmed bears suffer from...
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Amputee tests 'bionic' thought-controlled artificial arm
Dayton, Tennessee 20 July, 2006
1. Various of Jesse Sullivan using artificial limbs
2. Jesse Sullivan sitting down
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jesse Sullivan, "Electronic" Arm Recipient:
"That's when he told me that if they moved the nerves...
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NORTH KOREA: RED CROSS ANNOUNCE SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN AID UPDATE
English/Nat
The Red Cross has announced a fivefold increase in its aid programme to North Korea - as the crisis in the country becomes ever more apparent.
A two week mission by the aid agency found that one in six children are suffering...
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GNS Conjoined twins separated successfully
1. Exterior Gemelli Hospital
2. People at hospital entrance
3. News conference
4. Media
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Concezio Di Rocco, addressing news conference in Italian:
"The cranial membranes developed together in the first...
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A student-designed robotic arm has the potential to prevent injuries in workers whose jobs require repetitive heavy lifting. It could also help rehab patients undergoing physical therapy. (Dec. 10)
SOUNDBITE: Nick McGill, student
"I was talking to some person, and she mentioned that it was difficult to lift up her grandchildren - it actually can lead to, often times, injuries because a 20-pound child at arm's length - it's a lot of...
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Former president visits Aids patients to promote treatment
1. Former US president Bill Clinton walking in to meet hospital staff and patients
2. Close-up Clinton''s hand signing guest book
3. Clinton signing his autobiography "My Life"
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Clinton, Former US president:
"I...
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INDIA: TRANSPLANT OPERATIONS
India's lucrative trade in human organs is flourishing despite a new law effectively banning the practice.
For years, people have travelled to India for transplant operations ... now the Indian government wants to end the...
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Doctors struggle to treat influx of earthquake victims
1. Wide exterior of Nasagi hospital
2. Victim with burned leg
3. Close up leg
4. Child with burned face
5. Wide child and father
6. Close up medical drip
7. Tilt from drip to injured women
8. Wide shot woman with her relatives
9. Two...
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CUBA: US MEDICS COMPLETE GROUND BREAKING HEART OPERATION
Eng/Spanish/Nat
A team of U-S medics has just completed a ground-breaking heart operation in Cuba that could benefit millions.
The group, which includes Milwaukee-based Doctor Dudley Johnson, flew into Havana last month to join Cuban...
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Chinese authorities reject Falun Gong allegations of organ harvesting
1. Various of news release from Falun Gong''s information centre
2. Wide shot of press conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Zheng Bin, Vice Director, Sujiatun District of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province
"These lies are not only defaming...
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TURKEY: EARTHQUAKE DISASTER: US WARSHIP BRINGS MEDICINE (2)
Italian/Eng/Nat
U-S Marines from a Navy amphibious assault group has sailed into the Sea of Marmara in Turkey's earthquake-stricken northwest.
But they have found little to do except ferry international aid piling up at Istanbul...
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USA: BREAKTHROUGH IN TREATING MULTIPLE MYELOMA CANCER
English/Nat
The diagnosis of multiple myeloma is a death sentence for those who receive it.
It is a cancer of the bone marrow which causes severe pain, bone fractures and usually death within four years.
More than fifty thousand people...
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TAIWAN: TAIPEI: PEOPLE ARE BECOMING IMMUNE TO ANTIBIOTICS
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
Taiwanese are taking so many antibiotics that they are becoming immune to their effects and run the risk of succumbing to even the most basic infection
Taiwan spends more than 200 million U-S dollars a year on...
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Health Ministry briefing on AIDS, HIV, prevention and treatment
FILE: November 2004
1. Mid of doctor talking to patient with AIDS in hospital ward
2. Close of patient, tilt up to doctor talking to patient with AIDS medication in his hands
3. Close medication in doctor's hand
4. Mid of nurse carrying...
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Doctors working round the clock to treat those injured during Israel's offensive
Hospitals in Gaza have seen a devastating rise in admissions in recent days as Palestinian officials reported intensified Israeli air strikes, shelling and numerous civilian casualties.
Doctors are working around the clock at Shifa...
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Expert on radiation comments on the effects of polonium in humans
1. Doctor Colin Hill, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at University of Southern California, looking at X-rays
2. Close of Doctor Hill
3. Close-up of X-ray on display board
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Doctor Colin Hill, Associate...
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India provides specialist medical treatment to Iraqi children
New Delhi - July 13, 2007
1. Various of Mahmood Sabar sleeping on a hospital bed
2. Close-up of Mahmood's mother's face
3. Mid shot back of boy sleeping
4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Maida Nasser, Mahmood's Mother:
"The treatment for...
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ONLY ON AP - Psychiatric hospital battles lack of resources to provide mental healthcare
Years of conflict and instability in Somalia have had a profound impact on the mental health of many of its citizens.
One in three Somalis are affected by some form of psychological disorder, a prevalence which is higher than in other...
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Ganja Future Growers and Producers Assoc launches bid to influence law
A group of influential Jamaicans gathered on Saturday to launch an association of supposed future marijuana cultivators, as momentum builds toward loosening laws prohibiting pot on the Caribbean island.
Some 300 people, including medical...
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Kylie Minogue gives emotional first TV interview since breast cancer diagnosis
AP Entertainment
Paris, 6th July 2006
1. GVs Kylie arrival for Chanel catwalk show
2. WS Kylie and Karl Lagerfeld backstage
3. MS Kylie leaving
(Q.Reporter - "what did you think of the show today?")
SOUNDBITE Kylie:
"It was...