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A New Way to Detect Breast Cancer

Sophie Cousins

August 28, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India

Mammograms are expensive and invasive, but a new device screens for breast cancer without radiation. The iBreastExam is lowering barriers to screening for poorer women in India and the solution is spreading across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Mexico.

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Computer predictions 'control' cholera

Pallab Ghosh

August 27, 2018 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Yemen

Cholera cases are dramatically reduced in areas that use the technology to predict where cholera cases are most likely to occur by monitoring rainfall. Health workers use this information to head off the disease and arrive first with sanitation supplies and education about prevention. In 2017 there were 50,000 cases in a week, this year there are only 2,500.

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How to know, address an aging loved one's deteriorating driving skills

Noah Jones

August 23, 2018 |

Richland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Ohio

As our loved ones age, their driving skills can change. Through expert opinions from the Area Agency on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association, several measures can improve this transition for caregivers and their loved ones. These steps include how to approach them and where to find educational driving materials. Moreover, the necessity of having a plan in place is emphasized to ensure seniors have a means of transportation in order to prevent depression and other ailments.

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Traumatic Brain Injury and Incarceration: Ending a Vicious Cycle

Casey Leins

August 22, 2018 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

The Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado works to connect traumatic brain injury survivors with resources for reintegrating into society—even if they have been incarcerated. Their work connect formerly incarcerated people is aimed at reducing recidivism. Over half of Colorado inmates have a history of serious brain injury. So far, only a little research has been completed, but other states are looking to the Colorado studies and programs as potential models.

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Take a Look at These Unusual Strategies for Fighting Dementia

Christopher F. Schuetze

August 22, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Netherlands

The Netherlands is trying an alternative strategy to hospitalization for dementia patients. Instead of home care and hospitalization, patients live in group care facilities, which use stress-reduction techniques and calming cues to reduce the negative symptoms of dementia. There’s no cure for dementia, but their methods are effective in reducing the medication and restraints necessary for patients.

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The last mile: On the frontlines of polio eradication in Kano State

Bashar Abubakar

August 20, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

The poliovirus has plagued Nigeria for years, but the country is approaching near-eradication thanks to community public health workers' efforts to increase education, immunization and reporting. Throughout the country workers known as Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers are trained to recognize the symptoms of polio so the cases can be reported and addressed immediately. Coupled with the efforts of community informants, this approach has already resulted in parts of Nigeria becoming polio-free.

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Cool Ways of Keeping Things Cool

Tom Colls, Harriet Noble

August 20, 2018 |

BBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United Kingdom

Inventors have come up with energy-efficient refrigeration options. A fridge uses water and ice to protect vaccines in places with irregular access to electricity. An engine that runs on liquid nitrogen reduces fossil fuel dependence in food shipping.

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Mass treatment helps Uganda to eliminate trachoma

Lillian Namusoke Magezi

August 14, 2018 |

New Vision |

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Response Location: Uganda

Trachoma is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness, but mass antibiotic treatment helped rural Ugandans reduce trachoma cases. By instituting a treatment plan that met rural residents where they live, educating people about the importance of hygiene, and encouraging the use of latrines instead of open defecation, many Ugandan villages are mostly trachoma-free.

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Planting Trees to Help Dallas Breathe

Katelyn Newman

August 07, 2018 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

In 2016, the Texas Trees Foundation and federal Trust for Public Land partnered to use GIS technology in greening Dallas, Texas, and plant some 1,000 trees to start. Not only does the initiative reduce respiratory problems like asthma--over the next 40 years, the new tree cover is expected to create about $2.9 million in environmental benefits, sucking around 250 tons of CO2 from the air and capturing around 4 million gallons of stormwater.

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Lessons for Bida: Three approaches that may solve Niger state's public sanitation dilemma

Bashar Abubakar

August 07, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria

In order to improve community health and maintain defenses against communicable diseases in Nigeria, thousands of sanitation workers have been recruited, trained, and deployed. Additionally, neighboring countries have increased inspections of homes, vendors, and markets as well as created communal cleaning days.

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