1.   In the face of desperate medicine shortages, nearly a dozen private and public international health organizations are now collaborating with Russian experts to regain control of the disease.

2.   Authorities say thousands of children have died because of medicine shortages caused by the sanctions.

3.   It said medicine shortages and lack of pain killers for some amputees meant that amputations often brought on serious infection, death or suicide.

4.   Mitsumasa Nakanishi, manager of the Kobe City Medical Department, Health Division, said the medicine shortages have been solved.

5.   The head of a French humanitarian group on Wednesday urged other nations to help Iraq combat widespread medicine shortages and a breakdown in public sanitation.

6.   The head of a French humanitarian group urged other nations Wednesday to help Iraq combat widespread medicine shortages and a breakdown in public sanitation.

7.   But residents said medicine shortages was also a problem.

8.   The Argentine government Wednesday declared a public health emergency to combat medicine shortages.

9.   The Ibn al-Haytham opthalmological hospital in Baghdad is one of the places where the medicine shortage is felt most.