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US doctors embroiled in sudden legal uncertainty over abortions
AFP, Published on 18/07/2022
» WASHINGTON - Days after the US state of Ohio banned abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, doctor Mae Winchester had a patient who needed to terminate her pregnancy to save her life.
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Nicaraguan plantation workers 'poisoned' by pesticides fight for justice
AFP, Published on 13/05/2022
» TONALA (NICARAGUA) - Hundreds of Nicaraguan plantation workers left sick or sterile after working with a noxious pesticide in the 1970s were dealt a blow this week when a French court ruled against their claims for compensation.
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Children pay the price in Pakistan's mass HIV outbreak
AFP, Published on 14/06/2021
» RATO DERO, Pakistan: Since his son was diagnosed with HIV during a mass outbreak in Pakistan among babies and children, hard-up Shahzado Shar has often been forced to choose between food and medicine.
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Maradona's medical team face manslaughter probe over star's death: source
AFP, Published on 21/05/2021
» BUENOS AIRES: Seven people have been placed under formal investigation for manslaughter in Argentina over the death last year of footballing legend Diego Maradona, AFP has learned from a judicial source.
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George Floyd died from 'low level of oxygen': doctor
AFP, Published on 09/04/2021
» MINNEAPOLIS - A respiratory doctor testified Thursday that George Floyd died from a lack of oxygen and that police officer Derek Chauvin's knee was on his neck almost all the time he was facedown in the street with his hands cuffed behind his back.
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COVID-19 research scandal: Unwanted diversion during pandemic
AFP, Published on 06/06/2020
» WASHINGTON - The first research scandal of the coronavirus pandemic has created unnecessary distraction around the politically divisive drug hydroxychloroquine, scientists say, as questions swirl around the tiny health care company at the center of the affair.
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HIV outbreak sparks panic in southern Pakistan
AFP, Published on 16/05/2019
» RATO DERO, Pakistan: Parents nervously watch as their children wait to be tested for HIV in a village in southern Pakistan, where hundreds of people have been allegedly infected by a doctor using a contaminated syringe.
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Child deaths at Indian hospital reach 60
Associated Press, Published on 12/08/2017
» MUMBAI: Sixty children have died at a hospital in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh this week, with some reports blaming many of the deaths on a lack of oxygen supplies arsing from a dispute over payments to the supplier.
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Chinese cosmetic tourists reap regret in South Korea
AFP, Published on 18/02/2015
» BEIJING - Chinese businesswoman Chen Yili paid a South Korean hospital thousands of dollars to reshape her face in the hope she would look more like the glamourous stars she saw on television.
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S. Korea cracks down on foreign-focused plastic surgery clinics
AFP, Published on 13/02/2015
» SEOUL - South Korea on Friday announced a crackdown on illegal brokers and unregistered clinics in a bid to protect medical tourists, especially those drawn by the country's booming plastic surgery industry.
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