Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
14 August 2021
New York, New York, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Rock Safe Streets in the Red Fern Public Houses of Far Rockaway, Queens, ramped up its violence interrupter work starting in 2020 as gun violence increased. Red Fern then went nearly a year without a single shooting. ...
12 July 2021
Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A joint project between Wyoming and Colorado screens newborns for spinal muscular atrophy, allowing them to receive gene therapies to prevent the deadly disease’s progression. Once researchers identified a protein mis...
5 March 2021
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
A growing therapeutic clowning community is helping to bring emotional relief to children and the elderly who are in hospitals and eldercare facilities. While not all patients are receptive to this play therapy, of th...
3 March 2021
New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
RxArt is a non-profit organization that works to brighten up children's wings in hospitals with art installations. The artwork is vibrant and often covers entire rooms and hallways, eliciting positive reactions from t...
31 December 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
To promote the need to end intersex surgery, an organization launched a multi-pronged campaign that raised awareness about the potentially damaging impacts of the practice. The group used social media, created a petit...
27 August 2020
Uganda
Video
3-5 Minutes
A hospital in Uganda is using a new device created by scientists that produces oxygen without the use of electricity. Since the device has been introduced, 500 children have been treated with it and the mortality for ...
12 May 2020
Uganda
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Scientists from Uganda and Australia have worked together to come up with a device that produces oxygen without the use of electricity. Although this solution was originally intended to help address the high rate of c...
19 March 2020
Akron, Ohio, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Akron’s Children’s Hospital has developed an emergency protocol should the COVID19 pandemic reach them. Acting preemptively, they have limited visitors, removed all volunteers over age 60, and have nearly 700 employee...
DoR
Adina Florea
7 December 2019
Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania
Text
Over 3000 Words
A private healthcare facility in Romania is helping to bring specialty surgeries to the region's children by arranging for doctors from other parts of the nation and world to convene on a rotating, but regular, basis....
5 September 2019
Shanghai, China
Text
1500-3000 Words
Despite being faced with many limitations, China is trying to improve treatments and overall outcomes for childhood cancer patients. Although the country is still pushing for further success, hospitals so far have see...
5 September 2019
Beirut, Lebanon
Text
Over 3000 Words
The King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman, Jordan and the Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon were both established in order to help children from all different regions battle cancer, but since war broke out, they have ...
5 August 2019
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Text
Over 3000 Words
In a handful of hospitals throughout Canada, vaccination counselors are helping to relieve new parents' trepidation toward infant and child vaccinations. By engaging in a "motivational interview" immediately before th...
26 June 2019
Lake First Nation, Ontario, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
When the opioid crisis hit indigenous communities throughout North America, solutions that were working in urban areas, weren't available to these isolated, rural regions. To combat the crisis specifically as it relat...
28 February 2019
United States
Text
Under 800 Words
PedsAcdaemy offers personalized learning to school-age kids who are in a hospital for extended stays. Lessons, which are up to three hours a day, are designed around any physical impediments students might be facing a...
22 February 2019
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Text
Over 3000 Words
In the UK, 3D-printed tablets are being tested at a children's hospital to specifically address the difficultly many children face when they need to take pills that are either too high of a dosage or too big too swall...
18 February 2019
Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Text
Under 800 Words
At Enrique Baltodano Hospital healthcare providers are working on improving patient experiences by implementing patient-centered care. From making surgery preparations more enjoyable for children to offering an array ...
17 January 2018
Huntington, West Virginia, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
In Huntington, West Virginia, the opioid epidemic – which has graced headlines nationwide – is disproportionately impacting newborns, earning the city the highest rate of infant cases in nation. In response to this cr...
Gulfshore Life
Jennifer Reed
27 December 2017
North Naples, Florida, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A network of pediatric care providers and mental health specialists are teaming up to offer comprehensive mental health services for children in Florida, something that has previously been neglected. The Healthcare Ne...
12 April 2017
Bengaluru, India
Text
800-1500 Words
The intensive, alert care low weight infants need is often complicated by overstressed parents and overstretched hospital workers. A bracelet that monitors an infants temperature--and gives an alert when the temperatu...
29 June 2016
Palo Alto, California, United States
Multi-Media
3-5 Minutes
Undergoing surgery is a stress-inducing prospect for anyone, but children are especially vulnerable to anxiety prior to operations. To avoid using risky anti-anxiety medications on young patients, two anesthesiologist...
27 June 2016
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Hospitals can be stressful places for children and their families, but music therapy can help ease some of that stress. At Boston Children's Hospital, music therapists help children complete tasks such as using the re...
9 July 2015
Roseville, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Even though most central line infections are preventable, they are a leading cause of death in the United States. The core of the problem resides in a hospital's approach, whether they put the effort into treating pat...
21 June 2015
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Low income children in Cleveland with severe, chronic asthma are given quality treatment but often live in substandard housing with mold, dust, lead or secondhand smoke and continue suffering potentially lethal attack...
17 July 2014
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Being poor can make you sick because of where you work, live and eat. Medical-legal partnerships, in hospitals U.S. cities, are attacking these social determinants through legal aid to the poor, often class-action law...
22 November 2010
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Text
1500-3000 Words
Children coming from abusive households are often reluctant to discuss their past experiences. A Mexican foundation is using animated characters to help abused and ill children speak about their lives.
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