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Court ruling on selective reduction

OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 7 Kyodo - Yahiro Netsu, a medical doctor who runs a maternity clinic in Nagano Prefecture, attends a press conference in Osaka on Jan. 28, 2020, after the Osaka District Court dismissed earlier in the day a damages lawsuit filed by a husband and wife who claimed that errors in selective reduction procedure carried out at an Osaka clinic when the woman was pregnant with quintuplets had led to her miscarriage, leaving her without any children. Netsu, who sides with the couple, calls for the central government to establish legal rules on multiple pregnancy to ensure selective reduction, or the practice of reducing the number of fetuses in a multiple pregnancy, is conducted safely.(Kyodo)

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Surrogate arrangement for babies

TOKYO, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Undated combined photo shows TV personality Aki Mukai and medical doctor Yahiro Netsu. Mukai's twin babies were born through a surrogate mother in the United States in 2003. Netsu said in 2001 his maternity clinic had made a surrogacy arrangement for a woman, becoming the first Japanese medical institution to officially announce such a procedure.(Kyodo)

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A man stands by a damaged car near a private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district affected by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - Debris covers the premises of a private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - Debris covers the premises of a private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Private womens health clinic damaged during Russias second attack on Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8, 2024 - A private maternity clinic in the Dniprovskyi district is damaged by the second attack of Russian troops in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Seven people died and seven others were injured at the medical institution.

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Duty to work led midwife to put others' safety 1st in tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 19, 2013 shows part of a page of the business diary at maternity hospital Ikeno Clinic in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, where midwife Yukie Aoyama works as a chief nurse. Written in the section of March 11, 2011 were encircled characters meaning a big earthquake. (Photo by Yohei Kanasashi)

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Kirin's latest Free beer campaign targets baby-raising women

TOKYO, Japan - A nurse (R) presents a woman with a can of Kirin Brewery Co.'s nonalcoholic beer named Free when she leaves the Ogawa maternity clinic in Yokohama's Totsuka Ward on April 28, 2010. The beverage company is offering the beer-like drink to women raising newborn babies to win over such mothers refraining from drinking real beer out of health concerns for their children.

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, speaks to reporters on Feb. 29 about the eighth surrogate birth at the clinic. Netsu said a woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandson through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb.

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - A nurse at the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, holds a surrogate-born baby boy at the clinic on Feb. 29. A woman in her 50s gave birth to the boy, who is her grandson, through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb.

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Woman in 50s gives birth to own grandchild

TOKYO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, explains a surrogate birth at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 15. A woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandchild last year at his clinic in a host surrogacy on behalf of her daughter in her 30s, who had had her uterus removed for cancer.

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2 babies born at reopened clinic in quake-hit Niigata

NIIGATA, Japan - Two women have given birth at a freshly reopened maternity clinic in Ojiya, one of the communities in Niigata Prefecture worst hit by the devastating earthquakes of Oct. 23. Kumiko Suzuki (L), a 30-year-old local government employee in the town of Oguni, gave birth to a boy on Nov. 5 while Izumi Wada, a 29-year-old housewife in the town of Koshiji, gave birth to a girl two days later.

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Doctor says produced 1st surrogate birth in Japan

NAGANO, Japan - Suwa Maternity Clinic Director Yahiro Netsu meets the press on May 19 to announce he has helped a woman become the first surrogate mother in Japan. The woman successfully gave birth at the clinic in the town of Shimosuwa in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, this spring for her sister, who had undergone a hysterectomy.

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CHINA-SHANGHAI-EMERGENCY TREATMENT (CN)

(220402) -- SHANGHAI, April 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Nurses help a pregnant woman register for epidemiological investigation before hospitalization at the International Peace Maternity & Child Health Hospital of China welfare institute in east China's Shanghai, April 1, 2022. The emergency clinic of the hospital has scaled up efforts to ensure pregnant women can timeously get medical help. Around 40 babies were delivered Friday at the hospital. (Xinhua/Yuan Quan)

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CHINA-SHANGHAI-EMERGENCY TREATMENT (CN)

(220402) -- SHANGHAI, April 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A nurse enquires about a pregnant woman's information from her relative at the emergency clinic of the International Peace Maternity & Child Health Hospital of China welfare institute in east China's Shanghai, April 1, 2022. The emergency clinic of the hospital has scaled up efforts to ensure pregnant women can timeously get medical help. Around 40 babies were delivered Friday at the hospital. (Xinhua/Yuan Quan)

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CHINA-SHANGHAI-EMERGENCY TREATMENT (CN)

(220402) -- SHANGHAI, April 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A doctor prescribes medicine for a patient at the emergency clinic of the International Peace Maternity & Child Health Hospital of China welfare institute in east China's Shanghai, April 1, 2022. The emergency clinic of the hospital has scaled up efforts to ensure pregnant women can timeously get medical help. Around 40 babies were delivered Friday at the hospital. (Xinhua/Yuan Quan)

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CHINA-SHANGHAI-EMERGENCY TREATMENT (CN)

(220402) -- SHANGHAI, April 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A nurse is on night shift at the emergency clinic of the International Peace Maternity & Child Health Hospital of China welfare institute in east China's Shanghai, April 1, 2022. The emergency clinic of the hospital has scaled up efforts to ensure pregnant women can timeously get medical help. Around 40 babies were delivered Friday at the hospital. (Xinhua/Yuan Quan)

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CHINA-SHANGHAI-EMERGENCY TREATMENT (CN)

(220402) -- SHANGHAI, April 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Nurses learn about a pregnant woman's health condition at the emergency clinic of the International Peace Maternity & Child Health Hospital of China welfare institute in east China's Shanghai, April 1, 2022. The emergency clinic of the hospital has scaled up efforts to ensure pregnant women can timeously get medical help. Around 40 babies were delivered Friday at the hospital. (Xinhua/Yuan Quan)

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CHINA-SHANGHAI-EMERGENCY TREATMENT (CN)

(220402) -- SHANGHAI, April 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A nurse examines a pregnant woman at the emergency clinic of the International Peace Maternity & Child Health Hospital of China welfare institute in east China's Shanghai, April 1, 2022. The emergency clinic of the hospital has scaled up efforts to ensure pregnant women can timeously get medical help. Around 40 babies were delivered Friday at the hospital. (Xinhua/Yuan Quan)

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CHINA-SHANGHAI-EMERGENCY TREATMENT (CN)

(220402) -- SHANGHAI, April 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Doctors check medical records of the patients at the emergency clinic of the International Peace Maternity & Child Health Hospital of China welfare institute in east China's Shanghai, April 1, 2022. The emergency clinic of the hospital has scaled up efforts to ensure pregnant women can timeously get medical help. Around 40 babies were delivered Friday at the hospital. (Xinhua/Yuan Quan)

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CHINA-SHANGHAI-EMERGENCY TREATMENT (CN)

(220402) -- SHANGHAI, April 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A pregnant woman gets unloaded from an ambulance outside the emergency clinic of the International Peace Maternity & Child Health Hospital of China welfare institute in east China's Shanghai, April 1, 2022. The emergency clinic of the hospital has scaled up efforts to ensure pregnant women can timeously get medical help. Around 40 babies were delivered Friday at the hospital. (Xinhua/Yuan Quan)

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CHINA-SHANGHAI-EMERGENCY TREATMENT (CN)

(220402) -- SHANGHAI, April 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A nurse waits for an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman at the International Peace Maternity & Child Health Hospital of China welfare institute in east China's Shanghai, April 1, 2022. The emergency clinic of the hospital has scaled up efforts to ensure pregnant women can timeously get medical help. Around 40 babies were delivered Friday at the hospital. (Xinhua/Yuan Quan)

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, speaks to reporters on Feb. 29 about the eighth surrogate birth at the clinic. Netsu said a woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandson through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb. (Kyodo)

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2 babies born at reopened clinic in quake-hit Niigata

NIIGATA, Japan - Two women have given birth at a freshly reopened maternity clinic in Ojiya, one of the communities in Niigata Prefecture worst hit by the devastating earthquakes of Oct. 23. Kumiko Suzuki (L), a 30-year-old local government employee in the town of Oguni, gave birth to a boy on Nov. 5 while Izumi Wada, a 29-year-old housewife in the town of Koshiji, gave birth to a girl two days later. (Kyodo)

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Woman in 50s gives birth to own grandchild

TOKYO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, explains a surrogate birth at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 15. A woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandchild last year at his clinic in a host surrogacy on behalf of her daughter in her 30s, who had had her uterus removed for cancer. (Kyodo)

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Kirin's latest Free beer campaign targets baby-raising women

TOKYO, Japan - A nurse (R) presents a woman with a can of Kirin Brewery Co.'s nonalcoholic beer named Free when she leaves the Ogawa maternity clinic in Yokohama's Totsuka Ward on April 28, 2010. The beverage company is offering the beer-like drink to women raising newborn babies to win over such mothers refraining from drinking real beer out of health concerns for their children. (Kyodo)

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New coronavirus

Photo taken at maternity hospital Wise Ladies' Clinic in Satte, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 10, 2020, shows a newborn baby wearing a face shield. Such shield has been introduced at the hospital to protect newborn babies from coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Photo taken at maternity hospital Wise Ladies' Clinic in Satte, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 10, 2020, shows a newborn baby wearing a face shield. Such shield has been introduced at the hospital to protect newborn babies from coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Photo taken at maternity hospital Wise Ladies' Clinic in Satte, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 10, 2020, shows a newborn baby wearing a face shield. Such shield has been introduced at the hospital to protect newborn babies from coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Photo taken at maternity hospital Wise Ladies' Clinic in Satte, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 10, 2020, shows Mika Chiba and her newborn baby wearing a face shield. Such shield has been introduced at the hospital to protect newborn babies from coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Yushi Segawa, head of Wise Ladies' Clinic in Satte, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, explains on May 10, 2020, a face shield introduced at the maternity hospital for newborn babies to protect them from coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doctor says produced 1st surrogate birth in Japan

NAGANO, Japan - Suwa Maternity Clinic Director Yahiro Netsu meets the press on May 19 to announce he has helped a woman become the first surrogate mother in Japan. The woman successfully gave birth at the clinic in the town of Shimosuwa in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, this spring for her sister, who had undergone a hysterectomy.