Bloomberg
Trump Can Leave Hospital, Not 'Out of Woods': Doctor
Oct.05 -- White House physician Sean Conley says President Donald Trump has "met or exceeded all hospital discharge criteria" after being treated for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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Medical pot shrinks with legalization
When states legalize pot for all adults, long-standing medical marijuana programs take a big hit, in some cases losing more than half their registered patients in just a few years, according to a data analysis by The Associated Press.
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Mother pleads for ‘urgent assistance’ to obtain medicinal cannabis for daughter
A mother who was forced to sell her home in order to pay for life changing medicinal cannabis to treat her severely epileptic daughter protests outside Downing Street Elaine Levy, who is part of the campaign group End Our Pain, said many...
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Medical supplies prepared for victims of typhoon, Obama comment
US medical aid organisation AmeriCares was on Thursday preparing to send one (m) million dollars in medical supplies to typhoon-damaged ares of the Philippines.
The shipment was set to leave the US on Thursday night.
"Arriving today are...
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Ban Ki-moon in talks with Calderon
1. Mexican President Felipe Calderon and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon walking down step to microphones
2. Wide of assembled media
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
"I wholeheartedly...
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Actor Dennis Quaid told Congress on Wednesday of a harrowing, near-fatal drug mixup in which his newborn twins were administered 1,000 times the normal dose of a blood thinner.
HEADLINE: Dennis Quaid details his twin's drug mix up
CAPTION: Actor Dennis Quaid told Congress on Wednesday of a harrowing, near-fatal drug mixup in which his newborn twins were administered 1,000 times the normal dose of a blood...
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USA: LEGISLATION UNVEILED CALLING FOR END OF EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA
Spanish/Eng/Nat
A bipartisan group of congressmen on Wednesday unveiled legislation in Washington DC calling for an end to the U-S embargo on food and medicine to Cuba.
The move came as other congressmen debated legislative amendments...
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Chechnya - Chemical Weapons Suspected
There is evidence that chemical weapons have been used in the war
in Chechnya. Some 200 people in the village of Autay have been
sent to hospital with symptoms that point to the use of chemical
weapons. Eyewitnesses say that one...
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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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Clinton announces agreement to cut prices of HIV and AIDS treatments for children
1. Wide of former US President Bill Clinton and Chief of the governing Congress party Sonia Gandhi lighting traditional lamp to inaugurate the event (AUDIO: Applause)
2. Wide side view of Clinton and Gandhi lighting lamp, audience in...
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Mother treated after giving birth at height of floods, aerials, makeshift health facility
Army and private doctors have set up scores of roadside hospitals and camps to treat flood victims in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir.
The flooding has killed 200 people in India, where anger and resentment is mounting over what...
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Curvaceous figures celebrated with dance craze
Abidjan - March, 2008
1. Medium shot of DJ Kedjevara dancing with his dancers, a female dancer shaking her bottom
2. Close up of the boy watching
3. Close up of dancer shaking her bottom
4. Audience applauding
5. Various mid shots of...
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Making blood in a laboratory
Andrews Air Force Base, US, April 20, 2010
1. Pan of injured US soldiers being transferred from a military plane to an ambulance
Kandalay, Afghanistan, September 22, 2011
2. Mid shot of American soldier firing rifle
3. Mid of soldier...
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INDIA: TRADITIONAL HERBALIST CLAIMS AN AIDS ANTIDOTE
Hindi/English/Nat
As medical science struggles to find a cure for AIDS, some traditional therapists in India claim they have found it already.
The latest herbal specialist to claim an AIDS antidote says his medicine can reverse the...
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The number of people living with HIV beyond middle age offers new medical challenges
HEADLINE: HIV patients living longer, aging faster
CAPTION: With modern medicine helping people with HIV to live longer, growing evidence is suggesting that those who have spent decades battling the virus may be aging prematurely. This...
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Various - Jordanian Hea Shaan Seeks Transplant
A young Jordanian girl crossed the River Jordan on Wednesday
(2/11) and handed samples of her own blood to the Israelis who
will test it hoping to find a transplant donor to save her life.
Heba Shaban, a 12-year-old Jordanian who...
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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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AmeriCares, a medical aid group in Stamford, Connecticut is sending one million dollars in medical supplies to typhoon-damaged ares of the Philippines. Another shipment from Amsterdam arrived Thursday. (Nov. 14)
AmeriCares, a medical aid group in Stamford Connecticut is sending one million dollars in medical supplies to typhoon-damaged ares of the Philippines.
The shipment leaves the states on Thursday.
The group's Amsterdam, Netherlands...
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SOUTH AFRICA: DURBAN: INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE (2)
English/Nat
At the start of an international AIDS conference in Durban South African President Thabo Mbeki has defended his government's AIDS policy.
Mbeki told thousands of AIDS experts gathered from around the world that he is simply...
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The fight against Aids in Iran
Tehran - 08 , February, 2007
1. Wide exterior of HIV patients centre
2. Close of sign reading (English) "Iranian Research Centre for HIV / AIDS Tehran University of Medical Sciences"
3. Wide interior of HIV patients centre
4. PAN from...
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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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SARS outbreak prompts surge in sales of herbal medicine
1. Low shot of tea kettles boiling
2. Wide shot of shop
3. Doctor writing prescription for customer
4. Doctor writing
5. Close up on prescription as being written
6. Certification on wall
7. SOUNDBITE: (Cantonese) Dr. Luk Shun-chiu,...
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NGOs vital in treating SAfrica's HIV epidemic
Non-profit organisations and local hospices in South Africa play a vital role in after-hospital care for people living with HIV and AIDS. In Gugulethu, a township outside Cape Town, St Luke's hospice care for 171 patients including 140...