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Roche Expects Deliveries of Covid-19 Antibody in First Quarter
Nov.20 -- Roche Holding AG Chief Executive Officer Severin Schwan said the firm will be able to make the first deliveries of its Covid-19 antibody treatments in the first quarter of next year. U.S. biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc....
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CDC Chief Says Racism Is 'Serious Public Health Threat'
She said the CDC will study the impact of how racism affects health and implement solutions to address it.
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Descendants of Syphilis Study Still Fight Stigma
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLISTASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLYTuskegee, Alabama – 3 April 2017 1.Various of relatives of medical experiment at annual meetingU.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVE Date/location unknown 2. Photo...
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Scientists create monthly birth control pill
Birth control pills work great if women remember to take them every day but missing doses can mean a surprise pregnancy.
Bloomberg
Coronavirus Can Cause Damaging Blood Clots From Brain to Toes
May.05 -- Another threat from the lung virus that causes Covid-19 has emerged that may cause swift, sometimes fatal damage: blood clots. Doctors around the world are noting a raft of clotting-related disorders -- from benign skin lesions...
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Father, Son Die After Virus Spreads Through Family
Ohio family with 12 members positive for COVID pleads for people not to celebrate holidays in large groups.
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H.K.-Singapore Travel Bubble Is Major Milestone: Tourism Board's Cheng
Oct.20 -- Dane Cheng, executive director at the Hong Kong Tourism Board, discusses how coronavirus has impacted Hong Kong tourism, the Hong Kong-Singapore travel bubble and promoting domestic tourism within the city. He speaks...
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AIDS exacerbating food crisis, says AIDS council
1. Various of cemetery showing freshly dug graves
2. Various of people digging grave
3. Night shots of sex workers on streets
4. Sex workers with clients
5. Female sex worker at home (disguised)
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sex...
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Scientists make progress in search for vaccine
1. Pan exterior of Robert Koch Institute
2. Medium shot Robert Koch Institute
3. Reinhard Kurt, Frans van den Boom and Jan van Lunzen entering
4. Auditorium
5. SOUNDBITE (German) Jan van Lunzen, University Hospital of Hamburg...
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Descendants of Syphilis Study Still Fight Stigma
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLISTASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLYTuskegee, Alabama – 3 April 2017 1.Various of relatives of medical experiment at annual meetingU.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVE Date/location unknown 2. Photo...
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Yoga helps victims of genocide and sexual violence
LEADINAlternative therapies such as yoga are being used increasingly in Rwanda to help those still traumatised by the genocide of the 1990s.The classes are also a source of therapy and comfort to those suffering from HIV and...
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Health officials held a news conference Thursday at the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) urging people to get vaccinated for the flu this year as coverage among 18-64 year-olds has yet to top 40 percent. (Sept. 18)
Health officials held a news conference Thursday at the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) urging people to get vaccinated for the flu this year as coverage among 18-64 year-olds has yet to top 40 percent.
Studies show...
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Presser on the anti-AIDS gel and female prevention
1. Wide shot news conference introducing study on anti-HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) gel
2. Journalist
3. Mid shot, delegates on podium (people from left to right) Henry Gabelnich, executive director of CONRAD; Dr Salim Abdool...
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ROVING REPORT: RR0111/A KENYA: AIDS
AIDS has become the scourge of Africa less than 20 years after being identified. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome hit Africans first and hardest. But one of the countries worst affected, Kenya, has provided what could be a...
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Should the U.S. Brace for an Ebola Epidemic?
Oct. 2 -- Stephan Monroe, deputy director for infectious diseases at the CDC, and Bloomberg QuickTake's Lisa Beyer discuss protecting U.S. borders from Ebola with Trish Regan on ""Street Smart."" (Source: Bloomberg)
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Stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, contradicting a popular theory that a sexually transmitted disease debilitated the former Soviet Union leader, a UCLA neurologist said Friday.
HEADLINE Neurologist: Syphilis likely didn't kill Lenin
CAPTION: Stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, contradicting a popular theory that a sexually transmitted disease debilitated...
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To commemorate World AIDS Day, New York City launched the 'End AIDS NY 2020' campaign at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that new cases of HIV in the city are at a historic low. (Dec. 1)
The number of new HIV diagnoses in New York City has reached an all-time low.
The city's Department of Health released the good news on Monday, which is World AIDS Day.
New York City also officials launched the 'End AIDS NY 2020'...
Bloomberg
Ebola Panic Level: High! But Why?
Oct. 16 -- Lots of people are freaking out about ebola in the United States, but come on, it's not like the country is going to hell in a hand basket... (Source: Bloomberg)
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Kenya Is Safe and Open for Business: Kandie
Nov. 4 ""Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for East African Affairs Phyllis Kandie discusses Kenya's declining tourism, the misconceptions about the country and how Ebola and Terrorism have impacted the economy with Bloomberg's Manus Cranny on...
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CDC Hosts Zika Action Plan Summit in Atlanta
The CDC hosted hundreds of state and local officials and experts for the Zika Action Plan Summit on Friday to provide information and tools to improve preparedness and response to the Zika virus. Speakers including CDC Director Dr. Tom...
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CDC Hosts Zika Action Plan Summit in Atlanta
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus052244The CDC hosted hundreds of state and local officials and experts for the Zika Action Plan Summit on Friday to provide information and tools to improve preparedness and response to the Zika...
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South Africa trials new apporoach to TB treatment
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Khayelitsha, Cape Town, 2nd October 2008
1. Wide of Khayelitsha street
2. Medium of Khayelitsha street
3. Medium of Ubuntu Clinic waiting room
4. Ubuntu Clinic patient with mask on
5. Set up Nondumiso Zulu, patient with...
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Health officials detailed the measures they've been taking in recent months to prepare in the event that an infected person comes to the nation's most populous city. (Oct. 7)
Health officials say they've received calls from New York City physicians about 88 potential Ebola cases since August but the disease was never detected. They also said they're well prepared in the event a case emerges in New York.
Dr....
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Alternative strategy for vaccination developed
1. Epstein and Burke walk up to podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Donald Burke, Professor of International Health and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health:
"So what we have said is that you can take advantage of...