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  • HealthCare.gov is busted. These four state exchanges aren't.

    Sarah Kliff

    October 25, 2013 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    Accessible affordable health care is needed for millions of uninsured Americans. The Affordable Care Act is a viable solution that helps the uninsured. Although the launching of the website had some glitches, many states designed their own insurance marketplace and have successfully signed up people for coverage.

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  • Who Will Heal the Doctors?

    David Bornstein

    October 02, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Bureaucracy in the health care system causes burnout among doctors. A new medical course, the Healer's Art, is being offered across the nation, which helps doctors reconnect to the humanity of their work and maintain their commitment for it.

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  • Syria's refugee children haunted by horrors of war

    Stephanie Capper

    September 22, 2013 |

    ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Kilis

    Child Friendly Spaces in Kilis, a city with a huge Syrian refugee population, and UNICEF’s art program in Jordan’s refugee camp, try to address the mental health of refugees, who are often dealing with great trauma. “If we think these refugees only need food, clothes or medicine, we are looking at them like animals.” Organizers that run these programs say these programs are critical and needed to address the psychological effects of war.

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  • Medicine's Search for Meaning

    David Bornstein

    September 18, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Medicine is in crisis; doctors face early burnout. Medical education contributes: it creates doctors who don’t show emotion. But The Healer’s Art, a medical school course delivered in an unconventional manner, reminds doctors that they and their patients are above all, human.

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  • The Amazing People Who Are Changing How Low-Income Moms Give Birth

    Catherine Pearson

    September 12, 2013 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    One of the most vexing problems in U.S. maternity care is that low-income women, who have among the worst reproductive health outcomes in this country, also have limited access to outside birthing support. A new government-funded program provides expecting mothers with doulas, trained assistants who offer much needed physical, emotional and informational support before, during and after birth.

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  • It really does take a village: How Memphis is fixing healthcare

    Alex Halperin

    September 03, 2013 |

    Salon |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    Preventing and treating chronic disease for low-income patients is one of the most vexing and expensive public health problems in this country - the healthcare system in Memphis, Tennessee, is not immune. But in the middle of the last decade, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis’s largest hospital system, began teaming up with churches to address the city’s abysmal health situation and reduce the cost of care.

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  • The Cure for the $1,000 Toothbrush

    Tina Rosenberg

    August 13, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Why do hospitals charge such outrageous prices for health care? Because they can – especially because they have the complicity of your insurance company. But some pioneering insurers are holding down costs.

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  • Making a Medicine as Easy to Find as a Can of Coke

    Sarika Bansal

    July 03, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Zambia

    A project to take advantage of Coca-Cola’s famous global reach designed a kit of basic medicines that fit in between Coke bottles. But it turned out that what it needed to be copying wasn’t Coke’s package delivery, but it’s investment in the people in its supply chain.

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  • California Caps What Patients Pay For Pricey Drugs. Will Other States Follow?

    April Dembosky

    June 24, 2013 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Few people can afford the cost of medications for chronic illnesses. California administrators of federal health care have limited the amount a person can be charged per month for high-end medicine.

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  • HPV Vaccine Is Credited in Fall of Teenagers' Infection Rate

    Sabrina Tavernise

    June 19, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    The human papillomavirus is a primary cause of cervical cancer. The HPV vaccine has reduced the rate of infection by half in recent years among teenagers. However, the vaccine has still encountered resistance by some social conservatives.

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