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After Flint, Helping Doctors Recognize Chemical Exposure

Rachel Cernansky

November 21, 2017 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

The Flint crisis displayed the deficiency of knowledge by medical doctors to environmental health concerns. In response, the national medical community is bringing more awarenesses and education to current and future doctors about the importance of long-term effects of the environment on health. More research in this area is necessary as well as more classes in medical schools. Universities across the U.S. are now developing such courses to change the future of patient care and crisis prevention.

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Staging Bird Murders to Save a Species

Ashley Braun

November 09, 2017 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: Puerto Rico

To reintroduce captive birds into their native lands, wildlife biologists are implementing rather unconventional methods of behavioral conditioning to train species how to behave when approached by a predator.

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This gender-sensitive data tool could revolutionise the fight against poverty

Odette Chalaby

November 08, 2017 |

Apolitical |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Australia

Currently poverty is assessed on a household basis, however individuals within the same house can experience poverty differently. The Individual Deprivation Measure will be the first gender-sensitive tool that will be able to help better inform policy and understandings of poverty.

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Sickle Cell Patients Suffer Discrimination, Poor Care — And Shorter Lives

Jenny Gold

November 06, 2017 |

KFF Health News |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

The prognosis for sickle cell patients has decreased over the past few decades due to the rise of the opioid crisis, lack of information, and race disparities in health care. Vichinsky's center, on the other hand, is a specialty clinic that is providing proper care based on proper testing and interventions

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A prosecutor meets the juvenile lifer he locked up for 40 years - and apologizes

Samantha Melamed

October 26, 2017 |

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A Philadelphia man imprisoned for 40 years for a crime he did not commit was finally freed when the prosecutor who helped put him behind bars realized he made a mistake and worked to get him out. The U.S. Supreme Court found automatic life sentences for juveniles unconstitutional, but despite that and the previous prosecutor's change of heart, Ronald Brinkley has not been exonerated and the current district attorney stands by the case. However, the former prosecutor has offered to help Brinkley as he transitions back to the outside world.

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With storms intensifying and oceans on the rise, Boston weighs strategies for staying dry

Eric Bender

October 24, 2017 |

Ensia |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Boston and other flood-vulnerable areas are having to build for the future to prevent water damage from hurricanes and other natural disasters, especially as climate change makes storms stronger and bigger. Boston is researching the feasibility of a seawall as well as building other barriers at critical points, attention is being paid to preventive efforts in order to minimize future damages.

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Should health agencies in the Mahoning Valley give needles to addicts?

Tim Rudell

October 22, 2017 |

The Vindicator |

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Response Location: United States, Youngstown, Ohio

As the opioid crisis continues to impact all areas of the United States, local governments are starting to try solutions they previously had dismissed. In Ohio, this means implementing needle exchange programs with the aim of reducing the spread of communicable diseases.

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Why Cities Shouldn't Bend Over Backwards for Corporations

Rick Paulas

October 18, 2017 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Kansas

Flirting with a corporation can end badly. In exchange for city-wide wireless broadband, Kansas City gave Google near-free rein including fast permitting, free office space, low fees, and taxpayer funds. A few years later, Google restructured to become Alphabet and started cancelling hundreds of hook-ups.

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Israel's radical new approach to psychological first aid

Abigail Klein Leichman

October 08, 2017 |

Israel21c |

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Response Location: Israel

In Israel, approaches to help traumatized IDF soldiers were emotionally focused and did not succeed in restoring well-being. The Six C’s model presents a cognitive approach by Dr. Farchi, which involves stimulating the individual through mental and physical action—such as giving them tasks to complete or make complex decisions.

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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty, Two Generations at a Time

Dwyer Gunn

October 04, 2017 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Career Advance, and the Warren Village, are two anti-poverty programs built on the “two-generation model,” which “focuses on providing coordinated, high-quality services to both children and their parents under the umbrella of one program.” Prior efforts only focused on children. The approach seems to be a successful study. The Career Advance program found that sixty-one percent of participants earned a post-secondary credential after one year in the program, compared to just 3 percent of those in the control group.”

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