Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
1 April 2020
South Korea
Text
800-1500 Words
To combat a shortage of protective masks caused by the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, the South Korea government implemented "significant market interventions." The government began purchasing masks from manufactu...
28 May 2019
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Increasing the availability of naloxone reduces the number of deaths from opioid overdose. In Colorado, the Naloxone for Life initiative, which began in 2016, has distributed thousands of kits to emergency first respo...
29 April 2019
Iowa, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Every year, unused medications are thrown away costing states millions of dollars. A program in Iowa that has now spread to other states throughout the nation is tackling this issue by recycling and repurposing these ...
U.S. News & World Report
Joseph P. Williams
15 April 2019
Inglewood, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The African American community is disproportionately impacted by high blood pressure, but barbershops across Los Angeles County are stepping up to fill a gap between diagnosis and care. The businesses offer a detectio...
25 September 2018
Liverpool, England
Text
1500-3000 Words
When it comes to helping H.I.V. patients, Britain's National Health Service is able to keep prices for treatment much lower than the United States does by encouraging the use of generic drugs. The National Health Serv...
19 September 2018
Colorado, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
With a new prescribing protocol in place, drug store pharmacists can prescribe anti-smoking medications. People often visit a pharmacy more than their doctor, and the new protocol allows greater access to necessary me...
9 August 2018
San Diego, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
San Diego area physicians are now receiving a letter if one of their patients dies of an opioid overdose. The goal of this new project is to remind doctors of the impact of their actions and lower opioid prescribing r...
Nation Africa
Angela Oketch
6 July 2018
Kenya
Text
Under 800 Words
The "Bangladesh Regimen"--a shorter drug treatment for tuberculosis--is being implemented in Kenya. A shorter treatment means that patients will be less likely to develop the often serious side effects that can come w...
The Muhlenberg Weekly
Gregory Kantor
5 June 2018
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Although the opioid epidemic has spread across America, this story argues that local solutions are needed. In Allentown, when somebody overdoses on opioids, they get a visit from a Blue Guardian, a trained volunteer t...
29 May 2018
Egypt
Text
1500-3000 Words
Egypt has made significant strides in eliminating hepatitis C from the country by implementing an approach that combines both affordable drug access and an effort to get the drugs to those in need. Supported by the go...
27 February 2018
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Large pharmaceutical companies may be in trouble as state legislatures nationwide are passing laws that force big pharma to be more transparent about their prices, and forcing the utilization of generic alternatives u...
27 December 2017
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The state of Utah passed legislation in 2016 that made Naloxone, a life-saving overdose reversal drug, available over the counter to non-medical personnel as part of an initiative to reduce opioid related overdose dea...
9 November 2017
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Even though millions of people around the world rely on drugs like insulin to live, the big pharmaceutical companies often seem to value profit over people, and the costs of critical medications can be prohibitive. A ...
Richland Source
Emily Dech
26 July 2017
Mansfield, Ohio, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
The ProMedica Toledo Hospital increases access to healthy food for low-income families through a novel kind of pharmacy. Patients receive free produce, recipes, and guidance from a dietician on how to treat and preven...
25 July 2017
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
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...
6 June 2017
Albany, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Big pharmaceutical companies spend thousands of dollars every year persuading doctors to prescribe their products to patients. Doctors comply, often not realizing that a generic alternative exists or how much the name...
Yes! Magazine
Kaela Bamberger
29 March 2017
Concordia, Kansas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
RedTire, short for Redefine Your Retirement, is helping small businesses stay afloat by facilitating transitions in business ownership and acting as a non-profit business broker. The service helps rural communities t...
8 March 2017
California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In 2009 Kaiser Permanente doctors, alarmed by the rising rate of opioids being prescribed to patients, decided to develop a set of strategies and lower painkiller prescriptions. The most difficult one, is talking to...
1 March 2017
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
In Maryland, people are being trained to administer naloxone, the drug that can save people from an opioid overdose, in order to combat the opioid crisis. Some people are even trained on street corners. Already 20,00...
The New York Times
Shefali Luthra
28 February 2017
Milbridge, Maine, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Throughout the country, issues of health care exclusivity and rising drug prices are being addressed with creative solutions. Innovating new medicines and medicine deliver systems, such as an alternative EpiPen, is pr...
2 February 2017
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A program called FVRx (Fruits and Vegetables Rx) enlists physicians, grocery stores, and the government SNAP program to help make underserved communities healthier. When physicians write prescriptions for fruits and v...
Mother Jones
Julia Laurie
7 December 2016
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Opioid addiction has increased throughout the United States. A clinic in San Francisco has been offering an opioid replacement drug called buphrenorphine to help wean addicts away from opioids. The clinic’s success at...
24 August 2016
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Text
1500-3000 Words
When the population in need of a new dug is very poor, the private sector has little incentive to create and test new drugs. Through product development partnership, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative keeps t...
The New York Times
Donald G. McNeil Jr.
15 December 2015
Cairo, Egypt
Text
1500-3000 Words
A new approach to distributing pharmaceuticals in Egypt could become the blueprint for providing cutting-edge medicines to the poor. The approach, developed to fight Hep. C, capitalizes on local networks and involves ...
4 November 2015
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
At an Ohio supermarket, refugees get a surprising crash course on everything about pharmacies from the system of refills and dosages to how to open those child-proof bottles. With other offerings such as a class field...
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