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PM Singh opens Aids awareness convention
1. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh walking to podium at youth convention on HIV/AIDS
2. Delegates sitting at convention
3. Poster saying "We, the representatives of the Indian youth, promise to take charge and fight HIV/AIDS"
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Sherrie Cramer of Sacramento, California returned to the Chinese province where she adopted her now 16-year-old daughter. She hopes to find a match for the bone marrow donation the girl needs to survive.
HEADLINE: Calif. mom goes to China to save daughter's life
CAPTION: Sherrie Cramer of Sacramento, California returned to the Chinese province where she adopted her now 16-year-old daughter. She hopes to find a match for the bone...
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WTO takes up global trade rules for medicine
1. World Trade Organisation sign and group of protesters in front of building
2. Various of demonstrators carrying coffin covered by black flag
3. Police in body armour
4. Director of WTO, Mike Moore, leaving building
5. Various of...
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First came marijuana as medicine. Now comes legal pot for the people. Colorado and Washington have become the first states to allow pot for recreational use. (Nov. 7)
HEADLINE:Advocate: 'historic' vote on legalizing pot
CAPTION: First came marijuana as medicine. Now comes legal pot for the people. Colorado and Washington have become the first states to allow pot for recreational use. (Nov. 7)
Denver -...
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French parliament approves measure against anorexic models
SHOTLIST(including transcript):-AP Television+FILE++ 1. Exterior GVs of French National Assembly AP EntertainmentParis, France, 3rd April 2015 2. Wide shot of French MP Olivier Veran walking inside National Assembly3. Mid of French MP...
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Lance Mackey is gunning for his fourth consecutive win in the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. But this time, he said he's staying away from using medical marijuana on the trail because the Iditarod is testing mushers for the first time. It's a policy Mackey believes is directed at him
HEADLINE: Iditarod Champ Mackey defends drug use
CAPTION: Lance Mackey is gunning for his fourth consecutive win in the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. But this time, he said he's staying away from using medical marijuana on...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Released From Johns Hopkins Hospital
She was admitted on Friday night after experiencing chills and a fever.
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President Barack Obama says if he doesn't improve the education system and drive down the cost of health care that the economy won't grow at either his rate of 2.6 percent, or the congressional budget analysts' rate of 2.2 percent
HEADLINE: Obama addresses deficit critics
CAPTION: President Barack Obama says if he doesn't improve the education system and drive down the cost of health care that the economy won't grow at either his rate of 2.6 percent, or the...
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President Barack Obama says he recognizes the heavy price tag of revamping the health care system but that it would be much more costly to do nothing
HEADLINE: Obama: 'Not too soon' to move on health care
CAPTION: President Barack Obama says he recognizes the heavy price tag of revamping the health care system but that it would be much more costly to do nothing. (July 1)
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Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona says Republican ideas for allowing Americans access to health care don't require massive spending or a government takeover
HEADLINE: GOP critical of Democrats' health plan
CAPTION: Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona says Republican ideas for allowing Americans access to health care don't require massive spending or a government takeover. (July 18)
Jon...
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President Barack Obama defended the new health care law during his State of the Union address. He says he knows there's opposition, but he's not willing to go back to insurance companies denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.
HEADLINE: Obama on health care: Fix and 'move forward'
CAPTION: President Barack Obama defended the new health care law during his State of the Union address. He says he knows there's opposition, but he's not willing to go back to...
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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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Kaiser Permanente Colorado is offering adults in Colorado up to $150 every three months to lose weight and keep it off as a way to combat obesity through its Weigh and Win program. Such programs have been used by companies for years to help cut health care costs among their employees, but Kaiser's effort that extends the offer to any adult is one of the first of its kind in the nation.
HEADLINE: Insurance company offers Coloradans cash for losing weight
CAPTION: Kaiser Permanente Colorado is offering adults in Colorado up to $150 every three months to lose weight and keep it off as a way to combat obesity through its...
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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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The father of the youngest victim of the Arizona massacre says some of her organs have been donated to a young girl in the Boston area.
HEADLINE: Young Ariz. victim's dad: Boston girl received organs
CAPTION: The father of the youngest victim of the Arizona massacre says some of her organs have been donated to a young girl in the Boston area. (Jan. 16)
The father of...
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A new service offers patients a doctor at their doorstep within two hours of requesting one. It's a convenient, but expensive, type of health care, and shows the changing nature of the physician house call. (July 17)
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SOUNDBITE: Maggie Barnes, House call patient
"It's convenient to me because I don't drive and someone would have to carry me."
SOUNDBITE: Dr. George Taler, House Call Program, Medstar...
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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...
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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...
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Raising awareness ahead of World Diabetes day on Nov 14
Tehran, Iran, 21 October 2009
1. Wide shot Tehran street and buildings
2. Close up of sign reading (Farsi) "Iranian Diabetes Society"
3. Wide of the Diabetes Society building entrance
4. Tilt up of diabetes patients in class about...
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Thousands of health workers protest austerity measures
1. Wide of crowd of protesters in Madrid street marching against privatisation of hospitals and health centres
2. Close of woman with whistle
3. Wide of march
4. Close of women holding banner and chanting
5. Wide of protesters
6. Mid of...
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A marijuana plant is the central exhibit at an art show in California
1. Marijuana leaf
2. Gallery exterior
3. Frey Norris Gallery sign
4. Gallery workers discuss plant
5. Medical marijuana pamphlet
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michele Pred, Artist:
"So I decided the best way of presenting this event was...
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Californians debate new right to die law
LEAD IN:California will soon become the fifth state in the US to allow doctors to provide life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients. The new law was inspired by the story of young Californian Brittany Maynard - a 29-year-old terminal...
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Sweeping health care legislation has cleared its first hurdle with a 60-39 vote in the Senate. The measure is designed to extend coverage to roughly 31 million who lack it. (Nov. 21)
HEADLINE: Health care measure passes key Senate hurdle
CAPTION: Sweeping health care legislation has cleared its first hurdle with a 60-39 vote in the Senate. The measure is designed to extend coverage to roughly 31 million who lack it....
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President Barack Obama is keeping up the drumroll for health insurance change, saying new government figures paint a grim picture of 6 million Americans losing their coverage.
HEADLINE: Obama: Statistics show need for health overhaul
CAPTION: Trumpeting nurses' support for health care reform and a grimmer accounting of the nation's uninsured, President Barack Obama kept up the pressure for congressional action...