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  • Repurposing Drugs to Fight Cancer

    Sophie Cousins

    February 25, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Studies have shown that some medications prescribed to help treat one ailment can also be used in combination with other drug therapies to treat additional or separate illnesses. Although there are barriers to enacting drug repurposing clinical trials, medical experts say that the benefit of using existing drugs is undoubtedly more efficient and "off-label prescribing is entirely legal."

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  • How Rwanda could be the first country to wipe out cervical cancer

    Sophie Cousins

    May 07, 2019 |

    Mosaic Science |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Rwanda has launched a community and health driven campaign in order to put a stop to the spread of cervical cancer by educating women about the HPV vaccine. Driven largely by dispelling myths and providing accurate information focused on the vaccine's role in mitigating against cancer, the country has now achieved over 90 percent vaccination rates for girls.

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  • A New Way to Detect Breast Cancer

    Sophie Cousins

    August 28, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    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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  • Injections and Implants Could Revolutionize HIV Prevention for Women

    Sophie Cousins

    July 26, 2017 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Injections and implants preventing HIV could be an important breakthrough especially for individuals who can not travel regularly to a health clinic, have trouble remembering to take a pill, or who want to secretly protect themselves.

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  • The Tasmanian Hep C Buyers' Club

    Sophie Cousins

    July 25, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

    A man named Greg Jefferys runs a sort of online buyers club for the life-saving oral treatment for Hepatitis C. There are myriad reasons why patients are unable to obtain the drugs on their own, a few being high costs imposed by the pharmaceutical companies, and lack of governmental approval for the drug. Jefferys charges a $200 fee to get patients the 12-week course of oral pills from India that cure Hepatitis C completely.

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  • Healing India's Traditional Healers

    Sophie Cousins

    March 09, 2016 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: India, Suri, West Bengal

    India has an estimated 2.5 million medical “quacks.” Can they be trained to do no harm?

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