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Hotel-Dieu Hospital Healthcare Workers Protest - Paris

Christophe Prudhomme, spokesperson for emergency physicians, during the rally organized by the USAP CGT and the CGT Hôtel-Dieu Unions as part of the protests against austerity and in defense of Social Security, at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital, Paris, France, on Decemeber 2, 2025. Hôtel-Dieu hospital is once again threatened by real estate developers. Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hotel-Dieu Hospital Healthcare Workers Protest - Paris

Christophe Prudhomme, spokesperson for emergency physicians, during the rally organized by the USAP CGT and the CGT Hôtel-Dieu Unions as part of the protests against austerity and in defense of Social Security, at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital, Paris, France, on Decemeber 2, 2025. Hôtel-Dieu hospital is once again threatened by real estate developers. Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Welcomes Gemelli Hospital Physicians And Staff - Vatican

Pope Francis receives a group of doctors and staff from Rome's Gemelli Hospital, along with members of its affiliated university and structures, in the Vatican on April 16, 2025, and thanks them, during the 20 minute encounter, for their good work. This Holy Week, Pope Francis has shown his gratitude to physicians and staff at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where he received medical care for 38 days for a polymicrobial respiratory infection that resulted in bilateral pneumonia. The Holy Father was released from the Hospital with ‘protected discharge’ on Sunday, 23 March. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Welcomes Gemelli Hospital Physicians And Staff - Vatican

Pope Francis receives a group of doctors and staff from Rome's Gemelli Hospital, along with members of its affiliated university and structures, in the Vatican on April 16, 2025, and thanks them, during the 20 minute encounter, for their good work. This Holy Week, Pope Francis has shown his gratitude to physicians and staff at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where he received medical care for 38 days for a polymicrobial respiratory infection that resulted in bilateral pneumonia. The Holy Father was released from the Hospital with ‘protected discharge’ on Sunday, 23 March. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Welcomes Gemelli Hospital Physicians And Staff - Vatican

Pope Francis receives a group of doctors and staff from Rome's Gemelli Hospital, along with members of its affiliated university and structures, in the Vatican on April 16, 2025, and thanks them, during the 20 minute encounter, for their good work. This Holy Week, Pope Francis has shown his gratitude to physicians and staff at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where he received medical care for 38 days for a polymicrobial respiratory infection that resulted in bilateral pneumonia. The Holy Father was released from the Hospital with ‘protected discharge’ on Sunday, 23 March. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Various Senate Committee Hearings - Washington

R. Shawn Martin, Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, American Academy of Family Physicians, appears before a Senate Committee on Finance hearing to examine consolidation and corporate ownership in health care, focusing on trends and impacts on access, quality, and costs, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Various Senate Committee Hearings - Washington

R. Shawn Martin, Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, American Academy of Family Physicians, appears before a Senate Committee on Finance hearing to examine consolidation and corporate ownership in health care, focusing on trends and impacts on access, quality, and costs, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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New study tallies excess physician deaths in U.S. during early pandemic

STORY: New study tallies excess physician deaths in U.S. during early pandemic DATELINE: Feb. 10, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:32 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of hospitals 3. various of the U.S. streets STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent "A total of 4,511 U.S. physicians died during the early phase of COVID-19. These were 622 more deaths than would have occurred, had the pandemic not happened. According to a research letter published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), excess physician deaths peaked at 70 in December 2020. There was a rapid drop in 2021 when safe and effective vaccines became available, said the study 'Excess Mortality Among Physicians During The COVID-19 Pandemic.' No excess deaths among physicians occurred after April 2021, which coincided with the widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines. This meant that nearly 50 U.S. doctors more than expected died each mo

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U.S. doctors demoralized by nation's health system

STORY: U.S. doctors demoralized by nation's health system DATELINE: Feb. 7, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:31 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent "American physicians are now increasingly suffering from demoralization, which is not a reaction to a medical condition, but rather to the diseased systems they work for. 'For decades, at least tens of thousands of preventable deaths have occurred each year because health care here is so expensive,' said an article published on The New York Times on Feb. 5. The United States is the only large high-income nation that doesn't provide universal health care to its citizens. Instead, it maintains a lucrative system of for-profit medicine. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequences of this policy choice have intensified. One study estimates at least 338,000 COVID deaths in this country could have been prevented by universal health care. In the wake o

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Violence-curbing tech for women

NEW YORK, United States - Karen Naimer, the program director for Physicians for Human Rights, speaks on using mobile technology to prevent sexual violence against women and girls in developing countries, at an event organized by the Japanese Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York on July 15, 2013.

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IPPNW congress opens in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A world congress of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, or IPPNW, opens in Hiroshima on Aug. 24, 2012. The congress will run through Aug. 26.

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Using mobile network to check evacuees' blood pressure

MORIOKA, Japan - Photo taken at Iwate Medical University in Morioka shows a device to transmit blood pressure data by mobile phone. The university will launch a service for evacuees living in temporary housing in the prefecture following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, allowing them to transmit their blood pressure data to the university using such a device for medical checkups, university officials said June 27, 2012. If any problems are found, doctors at the university will report to the evacuees' primary physicians.

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Aichi governor in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam - Japan's Aichi Prefecture Gov. Hideaki Omura (L) and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung shake hands in Hanoi on April 16, 2012. The governor offered assistance to train Vietnamese physicians and nurses.

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IPPNW conference opens in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Ronald McCoy from Malaysia, who serves as co-chairman of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), delivers a lecture at its fifth north Asian regional conference which opened in Hiroshima on Aug. 20.

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5 killed in hospital campus shooting

STORY: 5 killed in hospital campus shooting DATELINE: June 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:56 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of views in U.S. 2. STANDUP (English): XIE E, Xinhua correspondent 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): ANTONIO GONZALEZ PLESSMAN, Human rights activist in Venezuela 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): ISMAIL, Lebanese lawyer 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): STEPHEN NDEGWA, United States International University (USIU-Africa) in Kenya STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): XIE E, Xinhua correspondent "At least four people were killed in a hospital campus shooting on Wednesday evening in Tulsa, the second-largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, authorities said. The gunman is also dead, police said. The shooter was reportedly armed with a rifle at the Natalie Medical Building, a physicians' office building on the St. Francis Hospital campus, Tulsa Police Department said on social media. More than 17,000 people have died in gun-related episodes across the U.S. over the past five months, including

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U.S. vice president tests positive for COVID-19

STORY: U.S. vice president tests positive for COVID-19 DATELINE: April 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:04 LOCATION: Washington, D.C. CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. file of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris STORYLINE: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19 on rapid and PCR tests on Tuesday, her spokesperson said. "She has exhibited no symptoms, will isolate and continue to work from the vice president's residence," the spokesperson said in a statement. Harris, 57, has not been a close contact to U.S. President Joe Biden or the first lady "due to their respective recent travel schedules," the statement said. The vice president will follow CDC guidelines and the advice of her physicians and will return to the White House when she tests negative, it added. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Washington, D.C. (XHTV)

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Japan urged to expand kids' thyroid checks after Fukushima crisis

Alex Rosen of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War calls on Japan at a press conference in Berlin on March 3, 2015, to widen health checks for children for possible thyroid gland cancer following the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima Prefecture. Medical checkups for the purpose have so far been limited to children in Fukushima, but the German pediatrician urged Japan to expand them to adjacent prefectures. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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IPPNW conference opens in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Ronald McCoy from Malaysia, who serves as co-chairman of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), delivers a lecture at its fifth north Asian regional conference which opened in Hiroshima on Aug. 20. (Kyodo)

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Doctor taking a patient's pulse

A physician is checking the pulse of a woman wearing a dotera (heavy quilt in the shape of kimono). Japanese physicians of the Edo and early Meiji Period shaved heir heads. The sword, tobacco tray and a tobacco pipe, and tea chest have probably been set up to produce this coloured photograph as a souvenir for foreigners.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number77‐46‐0]

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Aichi governor in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam - Japan's Aichi Prefecture Gov. Hideaki Omura (L) and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung shake hands in Hanoi on April 16, 2012. The governor offered assistance to train Vietnamese physicians and nurses. (Kyodo)

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Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

Beatrice Fihn (R), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, speaks at a press conference in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 9, 2017, alongside Tilman Ruff (C), co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor Setsuko Thurlow, ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Antinuclear park in Belgium

Photo taken in October 2017 shows a monument to Pierre Pierart at Parc Hibakusha in Mons, Belgium, which was named after the survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The late professor at the University of Mons led a local antinuclear movement as a member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doctors' group aims to ensure dignified end-of-life care

Photo taken Aug. 10, 2016, in Tokyo shows Japan Medical Association President Yoshitake Yokokura. Yokokura said the physicians' organization will soon launch an expert panel to discuss how to ensure dignified end-of-life care for elderly people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doctors' group aims to ensure dignified end-of-life care

Photo taken Aug. 10, 2016, in Tokyo shows Japan Medical Association President Yoshitake Yokokura. Yokokura said the physicians' organization will soon launch an expert panel to discuss how to ensure dignified end-of-life care for elderly people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo