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Scientists reported Wednesday they were able to "see" pain on brain scans and, for the first time, measure its intensity and tell if a drug was relieving it. The research is in its early stages, but it opens the door to a host of possibilities.
HEADLINE: Doctors use brain scans to 'see' pain
CAPTION: Scientists reported Wednesday they were able to "see" pain on brain scans and, for the first time, measure its intensity and tell if a drug was relieving it. The research is in its...
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Reax to plans for making over the counter drugs more widely available
1. Interior of Giannangeli Pharmacy in Rome
2. Close up of pharmacist putting medicine into bag, and taking money
3. Mid of pharmacist pulling out drawers of medicine
4. Mid of pharmacist searching for medicine
5. Various of medicines...
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USA: OVER THE COUNTER & PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
English/Nat
Dozens of well known over-the-counter cold medicines and diet drugs may soon be available only on prescription.
A panel of scientific experts in the U-S said on Friday that one of the ingredients, phenylpropanolamine, or...
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A French drug company says their morning-after pill, Norlevo, doesn't work for overweight and obese women. The key active ingredient is in similar emergency contraception widely available in the U.S., but doctors say there are alternatives. (Nov. 26)
(SUPER = Dr. Anjali Martinez, Asst. Prof. of OB/GYN, George Washington University)
"Some theories may be that the way the medicine is absorbed or metabolized may be impacted by the body weight."
(SUPER = Washington)
(SUPER = Dr. Anjali...
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Heath officials in the Czech Republic are joining in the search for passengers who may have sat near a man infected with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis
HEADLINE: Czech officials seek airline passengers exposed to TB (tuberculosis-infection)
CAPTION: Heath officials in the Czech Republic are joining in the search for passengers who may have sat near a man infected with a drug-resistant...
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A second baby born with HIV may be in remission and possibly cured due to very early treatment. The baby was born last year near Los Angeles and given medications within hours. The first baby was born in Mississippi and is now 3 1/2 years old. (March 5)
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A second baby born with the AIDS virus may have had her infection put into remission and possibly cured by very early treatment.
In this instance, medications were administered four hours...
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Scientists create DNA-testing microscope for smartphones
LEADIN:Scientists have created a simple, 3D-printed microscope, which - when attached to a smartphone - can be used to analyse DNA.It's claimed the technology can be used to diagnose cancerous tumors or infections like...
Bloomberg
Udacity's Thrun: Immigration Is U.S.'s Strongest Element
Nov. 15 -- Sebastian Thrun, Udacity co-founder and the first head of the Google car project, comments on immigration and innovation during an interview with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker at the MiSK Global Forum in Riyadh.
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UK: POSSIBLE LINK FOUND BETWEEN OVERUSE OF ANTIBIOTICS AND MENINGITIS
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As leading medical experts from more than 60 countries meet in South Africa for the World Medical Association General Assembly Tuesday, a group of doctors in Gloucestershire in England will be closely watching...
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Pot purveyors wary of plan To enforce US federal law
The Trump administration threw the burgeoning movement to legalise marijuana into uncertainty, on Thursday, as it lifted an Obama-era policy that kept federal authorities from cracking down on the pot trade in states where the drug is...
Bloomberg
Wendy Williams Reveals She's Taking a 3-Week Hiatus for Her Graves' Disease | THR News
“What I want to say to women, more than men, is: Stop putting everyone first because if we’re not good, they’re not good," the talk-show host told viewers while revealing she has the autoimmune disease Wednesday.
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Scientists create DNA-testing microscope for smartphones
LEADIN:Scientists have created a simple, 3D-printed microscope, which - when attached to a smartphone - can be used to analyse DNA.It's claimed the technology can be used to diagnose cancerous tumors or infections like...
Press Association
Lead scientist on discovery of group of people with naturally-controlled HIV
Interview with Dr Mary Rodgers, head of the Global Viral Surveillance Program at Abbott, regarding the discovery of a large group of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo who have naturally-controlled HIV without the need for drugs.
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Diane Rehm On The 'Right-To-Die' Movement And Her New Book
Rehm's new book captures both sides of the aid in dying debate, including interviews with physicians, terminally ill patients and ethicists.
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Focus on SAfrica, Zimbawe, Kenya as 25th anniv of virus discovery approaches
Tembisa township, Johannesburg, South Africa, Recent
1.Wide shot of Tembisa township
2.Mid shot of Anna Nonkwelo who is HIV positive AIDS worker walking to her home in Tembisa
3.Anna opening door the door to her home
4. Anna taking out ...
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China - Alternative medicine revival
Xi Yuan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Beijing does
not look like a clinic on the leading edge of modern medicine. But here, and increasingly around the world, people are putting their health in the hands of...
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Reaction to US scientists winning Nobel Prize for Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
1. Craig Mello, Joint winner of the 2006 Nobel Laureate for Medicine arriving at news conference
2. Students clapping
3. Wide of Mello with people surrounding him clapping
4. People clapping
5. SOUNDBITE...
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HRT medicine to be sold without prescription for the first time
A medicine for menopausal woman is to be sold without a prescription for the first time in the UK. Boots said that it is the first to sell a hormone replacement therapy over the counter, as well as selling online. Interviews with: Dr....
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Adds protests at Roche, update
Barcelona, July 8, 2002
0000 Various exteriors of building where conference is being held
0013 Setup shot of Tom Francis, Co-founder of VAXGEN
0018 SOUNDBITE: (English)Tom Francis, Co-founder of VaxGen
0030 Various of press briefings...
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STORY: Trials have begun of a drug that promises a rapid cure for leprosy,
which affects between five and six-million people worldwide.
Existing treatments take up to four years to cure the disease. But
researchers believe the new drug,...
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Scott Janis had a massive stroke just one month after signing up for health insurance. But when the bills piled up the insurance company not only dropped him but voided his contract completely.
HEADLINE: Stroke victim's insurance rescinded
Insured Until Stroke, Man's Health Care Limbo
Is Scott Janis a tale of Health Care past?
After stroke, dropped from health care
Jobless and Hospitalized, Case of the Past?
CAPTION: Scott...
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Abortion Medicine May Be Safely Prescribed Virtually
With Roe’s reversal, it could mean patients driving across a state border for a virtual appointment, or having the pills mailed to a P.O. box.
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CROATIA: ZAGREB: OUTDATED DONATED DRUGS MAY BE A HEALTH RISK
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Drugs donated to Croatia during the war years may pose a serious threat to public health.
Hundreds of tons of outdated medicines lie scattered around hospitals in Croatia.
With no furnace advanced enough to dispose of the...
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Campaign to take the shame out of TB
AP Television
Alexandra township, Johannesburg, South Africa, 13th October 2010
1. Wide top shot pan across the shacks of Alexandra township
2. Mid woman sweeping the pavement in Alexandra township
3. Wide pan from street scene to...