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INDIA: PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES RACE TO PRODUCE A VIAGRA CLONE
Hindi/English/Nat
Viagra may have made a sensational debut on the Western market but a different kind of competition awaits the anti-impotence pill in India.
Favourable patent laws have spurred a race among the Indian pharmaceutical...
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USA: LOS ANGELES: MEDICAL USE OF CANNABIS
English/Nat
New guidelines are about to take place for the study of cannabis for medical use in the United States.
Although initially applauded by some medical groups and advocates in favour of using cannabis for medicinal purposes,...
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AP investigation discovers water supplies contaminated with drugs
AP Television
Lake Mead, Nevada - November 2007
1. Mid view of a boat's motor on Lake Mead
2. Mid view of hydrologist piloting boat
3. Wide view of Hoover Dam
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Chuck Fisher, Hydrologist:
"It's a pretty important...
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A herbal medicine programme cut the Brazilian drugs bill
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 July 2008
1. Mid shot pan off men in laboratory coats harvesting leaves
2. Close up of leaves in container
3. Wide pan off passing van to Atlantic Forest Campus, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
4 Wide of agronomists...
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FRANCE/USA: TREATMENT OF AIDS
Eng/Nat
World leaders met in Paris yesterday Thursday to coordinate the political campaign against AIDS.
While politicians debate ways of limiting the crisis, doctors continue their struggle to find the medical means to attack the...
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AFGHANISTAN: EXTREME POVERTY (V)
Voice and effects
One (m) million Afghans face the possibility of starvation this winter because of the worst drought in years, which destroyed 75 percent of the country's crops and about 50 percent of the livestock.
Word of fresh U-N...
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In Calif. medical marijuana doctors, operating without official scrutiny, have helped make the drug available to nearly anyone who wants it. Tuesday voters will decide if marijuana should be legal for recreational use.
HEADLINE: Medical Marijuana may not be just for the sick
CAPTION: In Calif. medical marijuana doctors, operating without official scrutiny, have helped make the drug available to nearly anyone who wants it. Tuesday voters will decide...
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Naples drug lab working on possible Ebola vaccine
The solution to the recent Ebola outbreak could come from a vaccine developed in the CEINGE laboratories, in the southern Italian city of Naples.
The vaccine - so far a successful product of Italian scientific research - has...
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Disease impact, Gilani and US CentCom chief, food relief, aerials
Sohna Hilaya Dam, Thatta, Sindh province
1. Pan of labourers and local residents using rocks to fill embankment of Sohna Hilaya Dam
2. Various of men moving rocks
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Manzoor Sheikh, engineer:
"During this high flood,...
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NORTH KOREA: RED CROSS ANNOUNCE SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN AID UPDATE
English/Nat
The Red Cross has announced a fivefold increase in its aid programme to North Korea - as the crisis in the country becomes ever more apparent.
A two week mission by the aid agency found that one in six children are suffering...
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Ghazni province governor, tribal elders on their way to meet with kidnappers
1. Wide of Ghazni city
2. Exterior of Governor's office
3. Cutaway of photographer
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Merajuddin Pathan, Ghazni Governor:
"The negotiation still continues but today we have made a decision to send a delegation of the...
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Thailand stocks up on anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu
1. Various of boxes containing Tamiflu
2. Close up of sign on box reading: 'Tamiflu'
3. Close up of Tamiflu capsules and packages
4. Wide of Public Health Ministry official talking to a reporter next to Tamiflu boxes
5. Close of hands...
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TURKEY: EARTHQUAKE DISASTER: US WARSHIP BRINGS MEDICINE (2)
Italian/Eng/Nat
U-S Marines from a Navy amphibious assault group has sailed into the Sea of Marmara in Turkey's earthquake-stricken northwest.
But they have found little to do except ferry international aid piling up at Istanbul...
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TAIWAN: TAIPEI: PEOPLE ARE BECOMING IMMUNE TO ANTIBIOTICS
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
Taiwanese are taking so many antibiotics that they are becoming immune to their effects and run the risk of succumbing to even the most basic infection
Taiwan spends more than 200 million U-S dollars a year on...
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Health Ministry briefing on AIDS, HIV, prevention and treatment
FILE: November 2004
1. Mid of doctor talking to patient with AIDS in hospital ward
2. Close of patient, tilt up to doctor talking to patient with AIDS medication in his hands
3. Close medication in doctor's hand
4. Mid of nurse carrying...
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ONLY ON AP - Psychiatric hospital battles lack of resources to provide mental healthcare
Years of conflict and instability in Somalia have had a profound impact on the mental health of many of its citizens.
One in three Somalis are affected by some form of psychological disorder, a prevalence which is higher than in other...
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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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WRAP Mobile clinic set up to help flood victims in Nepal; Medical camp in India for victims
Nepalgunj, Nepal
1. Sign for free mobile clinic, run by Adventist Development and Relief Agency, international aid agency, to help flood victims
2. Women and children standing in line for health check-up
3. Close up of small girl with...
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First Lady announces a donation of one million kits to treat mosquito-borne virus
Haiti has received a large shipment of treatment packets on Wednesday to help it deal with an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus known as chikungunya.
The delivery came amid a rainy season expected to result in a surge of new cases in...
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Realistic medical training device
AP Television
New York City, 8 March 2010
1. Zoom out of Dr. Laith Jazrawi, head of sports medicine at NYU Langone Medical Centre, during surgery UPSOUND (English): "We''re going to localise our other portal with an eighteen-gauge spinal...
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Cuban school of medicine receives US students
1. Wide of Medical School
2. Sign saying "Medical School"
3. US students getting out of bus
4. Reverend Lucius Walker, Pastors for Peace, arriving
5. More US students arriving, getting out of bus
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Luis López,...
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Myanmar holds its first international tuberculosis symposium
Experts from across the globe gathered in Yangon this week for a two-day symposium aimed at finding ways to tackle drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB).
Myanmar has three times the global average rate of TB, with an estimated 9000 new cases...
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Look at what life is like living with HIV in collapsing economy
Harare - 27 November 2008
1. Wide of HIV positive patient Mary Volkwayn lying on a sofa
2. Pan from hands to face
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mary Volkwayn, HIV positive patient
"I had that thrush, so l was supposed to be given that...
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FEARS ANTI-BAILOUT VOTE WILL WORSEN HEALTH CARE CRISIS
Greece's healthcare system is on life support and depending on what the outcome of Sunday's elections is, many Greeks feel the plug could be pulled.
For Golfo Gemistou, vice-president of the Hellenic Diabetes Association and a diabetes...