FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus061941VOICEOVER SCRIPT: THESE DIALYSIS MACHINES KEEP ZAHRA HAJIKARIMI ALIVE, REMOVING HARMFUL WASTE FROM HER BLOOD BECAUSE HER KIDNEYS CAN'T.UNLIKE IN THE US, WHERE THERE'S A CRITICAL NEED FOR...

HEADLINE: California cuts health care services CAPTION: California health programs will lose more than a billion dollars under the state's new budget. The cuts could eliminate thousands of children, seniors and the disabled from health...

Newsy’s Maura Sirianni spoke to one woman who considers herself “pro-life,” and another who considers herself “pro-choice." Both have had abortions.

HEADLINE: House Dems unveil health bill CAPTION: House Democrats rolled out landmark legislation Thursday to extend health care to tens of millions who lack coverage, impose new restrictions on private insurers and create a...

1. Protesters shouting slogans against Swiss drug company Novartis 2. Mid of protesters near the Novartis office headquarters 3. Close of the poster holding sign reading (English) "Novartis: Making a killing in profits" 4. Wide of police...

Las Vegas, US, January 8, 2013 1. Wide exterior of HealthSpot kiosk 2. Tracking shot of woman walking into kiosk and sitting down 3. Mid shot of woman typing in information and query 4. Mid shot of HealthSpot attendant putting a blood...

Split Soundtrack Poverty in the Philippines has led to a rise in the number of people willing to sell one of their kidneys for money. In one seaside squatter colony in the capital, Manila, close to 100 men have sold a kidney through a...

HEADLINE: Feds to stop medical marijuana prosecution CAPTION: Federal drug agents won't pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by...

Manila - 29 April 2008 1. Exterior of Department of Health building 2. Department of Health seal 3. News conference 4. Cameraman 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Francisco Duque, Philippines Health Secretary: "In consonance with the presidential...

New York state is set to allow a limited use of medical marijuana, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday. It is expected join 20 other states that already allow medial use. In an election-year State of the State speech in...

HEADLINE Windfall for consumers as drug patents expire CAPTION: The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of Americans every day is about to plummet. The next 15 months will bring generic versions of seven of the world's 20...

1. Wide shot meeting 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tommy Thompson, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary "Today I'm very happy to be able to announce that we've developed a faster, a new expedited FDA (Federal Drug Administration)...

Beijing, China - 15 May 2003 1. Mid shot of life insurance company front desk 2. Close up of a sign with an anti-SARS logo 3. Wide shot of the insurance company business hall 4. Mid shot of customers talking to sales representatives 5....

English/Nat A Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian group has called on the European Union (E-U) to ensure new treatments are developed for neglected diseases that kill millions of people in developing nations each year. The group Doctors...

1. White House weekly address logo 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President: "I recently heard from a small business owner from New Jersey who wrote that he employs eight people and provides health insurance for all of them....

Jan.06 -- The diversity and accuracy of connected health devices continues to grow year-over-year, as a trend that was once relegated to smart scales and pulse oximeters matures into a medical-grade movement for improved consumer health...

Eng/Span/Nat The plight of the migrant worker in the United States is often forgotten. Working long hours for low wages, these people put the food on the tables of America. But for many migrant workers, affordable health care is neither...

1. Exterior shot of 'Jaslok Hospital', taxi entering the complex 2. Kidney patient Dayal Bhanushali and his kidney donor Sayeed Mohammed and husband of Shameem Begum 3. Damyanti Bhanushali (Wife of Dayal Bhanushali and kidney donor to...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said members of both parties need to go on record about where they stand on abortion rights.

1. Wide, exterior of HealthSpot kiosk 2. Tracking shot of woman walking into kiosk and sitting down 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Cashman, CEO, HealthSpot: "So HealthSpot's mission is to create access to high quality and affordable...

London - 2 December 2008 1. Various of Consultant Oncologist Surgeon scanning demonstration breast for cancer 2. Various of demonstration showing surgeon taking biopsy from sentinel lymph node 3. Various of consultant putting sample of...

Retirement Age Rise will Affect People's Health

HEADLINE: NJ church shooting victim aids lung transplant CAPTION: Thanks to a set of transplanted lungs from a man killed in a NJ church shooting, John Muscarella can breathe easier. The cystic fibrosis patient was given the lungs...

These lungs are being kept alive by the team of scientists in this laboratory. The team is hoping the medical progress they make here will benefit the many thousands of people who hope their lives will be transformed by a...