China stresses reinforcing healthcare system as foundation for rural revitalization

STORY: China stresses reinforcing healthcare system as foundation for rural revitalization SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 15, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:50 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: HEALTH/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): REN XIYUE, Deputy head of the Department of Finance of the National Health Commission STORYLINE: At a press conference on Friday, China's National Health Commission introduced the progress made in exploring and advancing the development of a healthy countryside, and stressed the role of this initiative for the all-around rural revitalization. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): REN XIYUE, Deputy head of the Department of Finance of the National Health Commission "On the one hand, consolidating and expanding the achievements made in providing healthcare support to the previously impoverished is the foundation for the revitalization of rural areas. We should continue to improve the monitoring mechanism for preventing a relapse to poverty due to illness, improve the assistance mechanism fo

Workbooks used for treatment of drug dependence

Workbooks used for treatment of drug dependence

TOKYO, Japan - Workbooks are used for the treatment of drug dependence in Japan. The two books on the right side are from the Serigaya Methamphetamine Relapse Prevention Program (SMARPP), while those on the left are from the Life series of textbooks of the Saitama prefectural psychiatric hospital.

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Juliana Harkki (right) and Jukka Planman from Aalto University present hentoTouch, a discreet neuromodulating device for alcohol relapse prevention, at the Slush 2022 Startup Event in Helsinki, Finland on November 18, 2022. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Aalto University presenting hentoTouch, a discreet neuromodulating device for alcohol relapse prevention at the Slush 2022 Startup Event in Helsinki, Finland on November 18, 2022. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Aalto University presenting hentoTouch, a discreet neuromodulating device for alcohol relapse prevention at the Slush 2022 Startup Event in Helsinki, Finland on November 18, 2022. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Aalto University presenting hentoTouch, a discreet neuromodulating device for alcohol relapse prevention at the Slush 2022 Startup Event in Helsinki, Finland on November 18, 2022. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Aalto University presenting hentoTouch, a discreet neuromodulating device for alcohol relapse prevention at the Slush 2022 Startup Event in Helsinki, Finland on November 18, 2022. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Aalto University presenting hentoTouch, a discreet neuromodulating device for alcohol relapse prevention at the Slush 2022 Startup Event in Helsinki, Finland on November 18, 2022. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Slush 2022 Startup Event - Helsinki, Finland

Aalto University presenting hentoTouch, a discreet neuromodulating device for alcohol relapse prevention at the Slush 2022 Startup Event in Helsinki, Finland on November 18, 2022. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

Japan's top court clears way for damages in hepatitis B relapse case

Japan's top court overturned Monday a lower court ruling that denied damages to chronic hepatitis B sufferers who contracted the disease in a state-run vaccination rollout, recovered and then relapsed, saying the plaintiffs have the right to claim damages.

Drug dependence needs to be seen as disease requiring long-term care

Drug dependence needs to be seen as disease requiring long-term care

Toshihiko Matsumoto, a doctor who developed a treatment program for substance dependence, called the Serigaya Methamphetamine Relapse Prevention Program, gives an interview at the National Institute of Mental Health in the city of Kodaira, Tokyo, on June 8, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Court orders state to pay compensation in hepatitis B relapse cases

Court orders state to pay compensation in hepatitis B relapse cases

Lawyers representing two chronic hepatitis B sufferers in a lawsuit over reduced state benefit for relapse cases hold up signs in front of the Fukuoka District Court in southwestern Japan on Dec. 11, 2017, showing the court's decision ordering the government to pay compensation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Court orders state to pay compensation in hepatitis B relapse cases

Court orders state to pay compensation in hepatitis B relapse cases

Lawyers representing two chronic hepatitis B sufferers in a lawsuit over reduced state benefit for relapse cases hold up signs in front of the Fukuoka District Court in southwestern Japan on Dec. 11, 2017, showing the court's decision ordering the government to pay compensation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Nishikori drops out of Madrid Open

Nishikori drops out of Madrid Open

Japan's Kei Nishikori attends a press conference in Madrid on May 12, 2017, announcing he is dropping out of the Madrid Open tennis tournament before his quarterfinal with No. 2 seed Novak Djokovic. Nishikori suffered a relapse of right wrist pain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo