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Lawsuit by chloroquine side-effect victims

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - A group of victims who suffer side effects from the drug chloroquine rally in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district on Dec. 22, 1975, while holding a banner reading, "Give us back light." The plaintiffs lodged a damages suit later in the day for the state's alleged failure to warn patients of the danger of chloroquine, which was used to treat kidney disease. Patients were not informed that it could damage to the eyes, leading gradually to permanent blindness.(Kyodo)

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Ethiopia Tigray in Crisis

Tigist, 40, speaks from her bed at an IDP centre in Mekele, Ethiopia on March 27, 2025. Forced to flee her home in Humera in 2020, she now suffers from kidney disease and cannot afford the 700 birr (€4.95) monthly medication. “I wouldn’t ask Trump for aid, just to help me return home,” she says. Photo by Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Acute water shortage forces Gazans to seek seawater as alternative

STORY: Acute water shortage forces Gazans to seek seawater as alternative SHOOTING TIME: Recent footage/March 21, 2024 DATELINE: March 22, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:58 LOCATION: GAZA, Palestine CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Gazans fetching water 2. various of streets in Gaza 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): OM OSAMA, Gaza resident 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): SAEED MAHMOUD, Displaced Palestinian in Gaza 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): ABU MAHDI, Gaza resident with kidney disease 6. various of damaged buildings near Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza 7. STANDUP (English): OHOOD AL-JAGHOUB, Xinhua reporter in Ramallah STORYLINE: The Israeli attacks have dragged the coastal enclave of the Gaza Strip into the abyss of lasting humanitarian disaster. On the occasion of World Water Day which falls on March 22, a joint statement from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics and the Palestinian Water Authority said that the Palestinian per capita share of water in the Gaza Strip declined by 97 pct during the Hamas-Israel conflict. T

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Tripoli medical facility short of medicine

TRIPOLI, Libya - Men receive renal dialysis at a center for kidney disease patients in central Tripoli, Libya, on Aug. 28, 2011. The facility has been suffering from a shortage of medicine.

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Former TV personality Ai Iijima found dead in Tokyo condominium

TOKYO, Japan - Former television personality Ai Iijima (file photo) was found dead at a condominium in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Dec. 24, less than two years after she announced her retirement from show business, police said. In 2006, she made public that her health condition was not good due to kidney disease and other problems. She announced her retirement in March last year.

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CT photos of kidney disease patient before and after therapy

TOKYO, Japan - A CT photo, above, of the abdomen of a polycystic kidney disease patient before undergoing transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) shows marked enlargement of both kidneys (dark parts). The photo below, which was taken after undergoing the TAE therapy, shows a decrease in size of both kidneys. The photos were provided Oct. 23 by Yoshifumi Ubara, a doctor at Toranomon Hospital's branch clinic in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo.

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China-aided hospital in Sri Lanka completes 1st organ transplant

STORY: China-aided hospital in Sri Lanka completes 1st organ transplant DATELINE: March 19, 2022 LENGTH: 0:00:52 LOCATION: Colombo CATEGORY: HEALTH/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1 various of the hospital 2 various of the surgery 3 various of the hospital STORYLINE: The China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital has successfully performed a kidney transplant surgery from a living donor recently. It's the first of its kind since the operation of the hospital in 2021. The recipient of the transplant is a 28-year-old woman who had been suffering from kidney disease for 10 years and the kidney donator is her mother. The mother and daughter are in stable condition after the surgery, and both the medical staff and the patient are very satisfied with the results of the operation. The specialized nephrology hospital was built with the assistance of the Chinese government. It has an area of 25,000 square meters, featuring 200 general inpatient beds and 100 hemodialysis beds. Xinhua News Agency correspondent

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Former TV personality Ai Iijima found dead in Tokyo condominium

TOKYO, Japan - Former television personality Ai Iijima (file photo) was found dead at a condominium in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Dec. 24, less than two years after she announced her retirement from show business, police said. In 2006, she made public that her health condition was not good due to kidney disease and other problems. She announced her retirement in March last year. (Kyodo)

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Tripoli medical facility short of medicine

TRIPOLI, Libya - Men receive renal dialysis at a center for kidney disease patients in central Tripoli, Libya, on Aug. 28, 2011. The facility has been suffering from a shortage of medicine. (Kyodo)

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CT photos of kidney disease patient before and after therapy

TOKYO, Japan - A CT photo, above, of the abdomen of a polycystic kidney disease patient before undergoing transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) shows marked enlargement of both kidneys (dark parts). The photo below, which was taken after undergoing the TAE therapy, shows a decrease in size of both kidneys. The photos were provided Oct. 23 by Yoshifumi Ubara, a doctor at Toranomon Hospital's branch clinic in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo.