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  • Rwanda avoids US-style opioids crisis by making own morphine

    December 25, 2019 |

    Associated Press |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Rwanda, Bushekeli

    The Rwandan government is on a mission to get palliative care to everyone who needs it by creating their own morphine instead of being beholden to pharmaceutical companies driven by profit. Using Uganda's simple recipe for morphine, the government partnered with nonprofits to produce and distribute morphine for free and under close watch. The drug costs pennies to make and is hand-delivered by community workers to those who need it, no matter how far. Although fear and uncertainty remain over the possibility of opioid addiction, many patients are greatly relieved to now live pain-free.

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  • Water for wildlife: Catchments prove lifesavers across Arizona

    December 24, 2019 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Peoria, Arizona

    Catchments are a manmade way to make water more easily accessible for animals. In Arizona, the Game & Fish Department oversees about 3,000 water catchments. Since 1940, the technology has vastly improved, leading to over 1.5 million gallons of water delivered to catchments since 2018 alone, which makes a significant impact in “providing life-sustaining water.”

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  • A Brand New Maito: Renovated PHC caters to community health needs in Niger State

    December 23, 2019 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

    Maito, a village in Niger state, was long lacking a health care center, so when the state government began work on revitalizing a building, improvements were made to build on what hadn't worked well before. Although enhancements included additional waiting room spaces, gender, and age-specific wards, and a solar-powered system, there's still room to grow and improve.

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  • Flint's Water Crisis Spurs Other Cities To Remove Lead Pipes

    December 23, 2019 |

    WBEZ |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    As cities and states across the United States begin to remove lead water pipes, some communities are looking for cost-effective ways to fix them because of the risk of contaminated drinking water. Three cities in the Midwest have started the process and have used innovative ways to raise the funds to replace the aging service lines, which could be a model for other cities like Chicago to follow.

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  • The Cost of Regulating Pain

    December 20, 2019 |

    Secret Structures |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    The CDC's 2016 guidelines on prescribing opioids for chronic pain attempted to address the opioid-addiction crisis by restricting the supply of the drugs at their source. The guidelines discouraged their use when possible and suggested strategies to taper patients off of them. Since then, thousands of people have lost access to necessary medications and to their doctors, thanks to overreactions to the CDC guidelines that unintentionally led to deaths by street drugs or withdrawal.

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  • How a landmark UCLA dementia program could ease burdens in Rochester communities of color

    December 20, 2019 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care program at UCLA in California is offering a new kind of patient-centered care that has helped bring relief to families in the region. The program, which creates a care plan "that builds in medical needs, solutions for caregiver stress and cultural traditions unique to each person and their family," has resulted in decreased stress and symptoms for patients and increased confidence and support for caregivers.

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  • Penn Medicine-created texting tool may save hundreds of new moms' lives in Philly and beyond

    December 19, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    After deducing that preeclampsia was "the number one cause of maternal hospital readmissions and maternal mortality," doctors at Penn Medical began sending new mothers home with a blood pressure cuff and then texting them for readings. Proving to be a successful intervention methodology, this practice has expanded to other hospitals in the state and may soon scale nationally.

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  • Volunteers step in to keep asylum seekers healthy on border

    December 18, 2019 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Tijuana

    In Tijuana, many asylum seekers are left without access to health care while they await a decision on their cases so medical professionals are volunteering their time to try to help those that need it. Although they are faced with a myriad of barriers, their pop-up clinics that promote “border-less medicine,” have grown to hundreds of volunteers who have seen more than 9,000 patients.

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  • Fixing the caregiver shortage: Why these health aides are twice as likely to stay on the job

    December 18, 2019 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A partnership between a nonprofit health organization and a community health service program has helped provide enhanced training and more robust mentorship opportunities for home health aids in the New York City area. Results show that those who are a part of the program, many of whom are women and people of color, are more likely to stay in the profession due to the "program's focus on supporting them and helping to frame their work as a long-term career."

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  • California works to reverse high maternal mortality rates

    December 16, 2019 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Palo Alto, California

    To reduce the rates of maternal mortality in California, medical researchers joined with hospitals to study the causes of the death in order to better understand how to move forward. After identifying interventions that could have saved lives in the majority of cases, the collaborative created toolkits and has since worked with participating hospitals to implement better protocols for dealing with cardiovascular disease, hemorrhage, preeclampsia, and reducing cesarean births.

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