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NYU Doctor: Independently Vet Candidates' Health
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus062880Hillary Clinton made an early departure from a 9/11 memorial event Sunday, then staggered and eventually slumped forward as she was helped into a van. Her campaign later said she had...
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No more organs from the executed says China
China is stepping up its efforts to convince the international medical community that it has stopped using executed prisoners as organ donors.Beijing has sent a high-level delegation to a Vatican conference on organ trafficking amid...
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Price: US Republicans must collaborate on health
US Health secretary Tom Price prodded divided Republicans on Friday to "get together and collaborate" on a health care overhaul as GOP leaders hoped to push the legislation through the House next week.Even as Price spoke to reporters...
Bloomberg
Hilton CEO Expects Historic Summer Leisure Demand
Jun.24 -- Hilton Worldwide President and CEO Christopher Nassetta sees a huge uptick in demand and says the U.S. business travel rebound is already in progress. He speaks with Bloomberg's Guy Johnson and Alix Steel on "Bloomberg Markets."
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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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Owners of tanning salons are upset over a new tax that targets them as a way to help pay for the new health care overhaul that was recently signed into law.
HEADLINE: Tanning salons feel burned by new tax
CAPTION: Owners of tanning salons are upset over a new tax that targets them as a way to help pay for the new health care overhaul that was recently signed into law. (March 24)
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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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Rural areas become a top priority for Chinese Communist Party agenda
Gu Shi Gou Men - 10 October 2007
1. Farmers ploughing field with mules
2. Close-up of plough pulled by mule
3. Farmer guiding mule ploughing field
4. Wide pan of Gu Shi Men Gou on the outskirts of Beijing in the Huairou District
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Defenders and protesters rally outside the Supreme Court as Justices tackle a case that allows businesses to object to health law's birth control coverage. (March 25)
Supreme Court justices are weighing whether corporations have religious rights that exempt them from part of the new health care law that requires coverage of birth control for employees at no extra charge.
The case being argued at the...
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Czechs can't access medical marijuana half year after legalisation
Just three years ago, the only thing that Zdenek Majzlik knew about cannabis was that it's good stuff for making rope.
Today, the 67-year-old retired nuclear power plant employee is an experienced grower who cultivates pot for his...
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A California entrepreneur is marketing a new line of medical marijuana soft drinks. Canna Cola contains THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, and will only be sold in legal pot clubs.
HEADLINE: Pot Meets Pop in New Marijuana Soda
CAPTION: A California entrepreneur is marketing a new line of medical marijuana soft drinks. Canna Cola contains THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, and will only be sold in legal...
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Unlike the federal health care exchange, the one operated by the state of Kentucky appears to be working without any significant problems. Governor Steve Beshear says thousands have used it to sign up for coverage. (Oct. 25)
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SOUNDBITE (Eng), Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, "We've had sort of a perfect rollout in Kentucky, that's not to say that next week something might not go wrong, and so we're going to stay vigilant, we're going to stay on top of...
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Author hopes Michael Jackson's death brings awareness
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FILE: London, 5 March 2009
1. Medium of Jackson on stage
2. Pan of crowds
AP Television
New York, 15 October 2009
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Deepak Chopra/Author, on what good could come of Michael Jackson's death:
"Bringing awareness...
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As House Speaker John Boehner prepares for the annual House GOP retreat later this month, he says his party is focused on setting its election-year agenda. He says he expects to come up with proposals to replace Obamacare and create more jobs. (Jan. 16)
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As House Speaker John Boehner prepares for a retreat with other GOP House members later this month, he says Republicans are focused on setting their agenda for the rest of the year.
"I think...
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Sick Syrian refugees are dying because of lack of funds to treat them
The sheer volume of Syrian refugees desperate for medical care is straining Lebanon's health systems to breaking point and UN organisations claim they're unable to help.
The United Nations says it can't afford to pay for more than the...
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Thousands Puff for Legal Pot at SF Pot Party
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus053733Thousands of people descended on San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to smoke pot for the annual 4/20 celebration, in what may be the last year marijuana is illegal in California.Fans of the...
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CLEAN : Kenya extradites four drug smuggling suspects to the US
Kenya has handed over to the United States four men suspected of trying to smuggle large quantities of heroin more than two years after their arrest
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More and more older people are turning to marijuana for medicinal purposes and urging legislators to legalize pot use for patients. In North Carolina, a bill to do just that is working its way through the General Assembly.
HEADLINE: Older patients turn to marijuana for relief
CAPTION: More and more older people are turning to marijuana for medicinal purposes and urging legislators to legalize pot use for patients. In North Carolina, a bill to do just that...
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ZAIRE: KINSHASA: AID AGENCIES CALL FOR SET UP OF HEALTH PROGRAMMES
Eng/French/Nat
While President Mobutu's army and Laurent Kabila's rebels continue to battle for control, the people of Zaire are dying - from diseases that can easily be prevented and treated.
Aid agencies have called for the setting...
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President Barack Obama says creative employers have found ways to both lower their health care costs while also improving the lives of their workers.
HEADLINE: Obama, business leaders discuss health costs
CAPTION: President Barack Obama says creative employers have found ways to both lower their health care costs while also improving the lives of their workers. (May 12)
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Shortly after the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans, President Obama said, "we proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things."
HEADLINE: Obama: ''We can still tackle big things''
CAPTION: Shortly after the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans, President Obama said, "we...
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Americans given first opportunity to shop for health insurance; Obama comments
The online insurance marketplaces that are at the heart of US President Barack Obama's health care programme, which is expanding access for those without coverage, struggled to handle the wave of eager new consumers on Tuesday.
It was...
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A leading council of the nation's largest doctors' group wants video game addiction to be officially classified as a psychiatric disorder, to raise awareness and enable sufferers to get insurance coverage for treatment.
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HEADLINE: AMA report takes aim at video game addiction
CAPTION: A panel of the American Medical Association, the nation's largest doctors' grobup,...
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Demo against drug companies and Bush
1. Wide of protesters walking along road holding banners and chanting
2. Protesters walking past convention centre
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Lugg, HIV/AIDS activist:
"In particular George Bush who says that he's the world leader on...