Health

Sisters encourage Masai mothers to turn to medically assisted deliveries

https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/people/ministry/news/sisters-encourage-masai-mothers-turn-medically-assisted-deliveries?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker

Doreen Ajiambo

Global Sisters Report

13 January 2020

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To reduce maternal mortality in the Masai region of Tanzania, Catholic nuns with Sisters of Notre Dame are building hospitals and educating local women about the importance of giving birth in a medical setting. Although this goes against the community's use of a "traditional birth attendant," delivering in a hospital allows for emergency situations to be better addressed and is receiving positive feedback from women in the region.

These two Bibb County schools have a solution to bad behavior: breathing and meditation

https://www.macon.com/news/local/education/article238200689.html?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker

Debbie Blankenship

The Telegraph

10 January 2020

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In Georgia’s Bibb county, students at two schools are learning deep breathing and mindfulness from the organization, On the Same Breath. The practice, introduced by the organization and then led by teachers, gives students the opportunity to complete this practice every day for 40 days in the hopes that it will address behavioral issues and stress. It’s currently in the pilot stage for Bibb county, but the Atlantic public school system has been using it for years.

In Reversal, Counties and States Help Inmates Keep Medicaid

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/01/08/in-reversal-counties-and-states-help-inmates-keep-medicaid?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker

Max Blau

Stateline

8 January 2020

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If incarcerated, low-income individuals that are reliant on Medicaid typically lose access to their benefits which accelerates the difficulty of reentry. To help close the gap, the National Association of Counties and the National Sheriffs’ Association have joined together to implement stopgap measures to help inmates either retain their benefits or have them only suspended instead of terminated.

Reduce Health Costs By Nurturing The Sickest? A Much-Touted Idea Disappoints

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/08/794063152/reduce-health-costs-by-nurturing-the-sickest-a-much-touted-idea-disappoints?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker

Dan Gorenstein

Leslie Walker

NPR

8 January 2020

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Researchers in New Jersey have been testing the idea that an increased specialized care model directed towards the sickest and most expensive patients would help reduce costs and improve health, but the trials have been less than promising. However, it was in the failures of the approach, that researchers learned that creating broader partnerships and addressing underlying issues for the patients may have been the missing key.

Art, theatre and clowns: creative cures for dementia

https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/wellbeing/art-theatre-and-clowns-creative-cures-for-dementia-1.960772?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker

Priti Salian

The National

7 January 2020

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Connecting with art enriches the lives of patients struggling with dementia and Alzheimers. Across Germany, several programs are using art to stimulate the minds of an aging population. At the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, seniors meet to discuss art pieces that affect them. Elsewhere, in Bonn, the Demezionen theater ensemble performs for retirement homes. And even clowns can bring a positive atmosphere to seniors struggling with dementia!

The inside story of how scientists produced an Ebola vaccine

https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/07/inside-story-scientists-produced-world-first-ebola-vaccine?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker

Helen Branswell

STAT

7 January 2020

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It was a "trial that almost hadn’t happened" that only happened due to collective action and a piloting effort, that lead to the creation of the world's first Ebola vaccine. Between community commitment and researcher's skills to react quickly, a clinical trial was successfully implemented in the midst of an outbreak and deemed a success.