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  • Inside Nebraska's Surprisingly Effective Covid Strategy

    April 22, 2022 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Nebraska

    Although Nebraska’s governor never ordered a statewide shutdown, shuns mandates, and the state’s vaccination rate is not high, the state has had an efficient and effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nebraska has fared among the best in the country when it comes to health, economic, social, and educational factors. The success is due to a combination of solid pre-existing medical infrastructure, particularly in infectious disease, and efficient state government that allowed the state to function logistically without relying on the federal government.

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  • New Orlando clinic helping identify, support children with fetal alcohol syndrome

    April 21, 2022 |

    WFTV-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Orlando, Florida

    The Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children works in partnership with the Florida Center to identify children with fetal alcohol syndrome disorders and helps family members create care plans for the lifelong effects of the disorder.

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  • How Lifespan's Partners in Caring program is changing the perception of older adults with dementia

    April 20, 2022 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    The Partners in Caring Respite program pairs volunteers with people in the early stages of cognitive neurological disorders — like dementia — to offer care and companion programs, allowing them to build relationships and provide respite for family caregivers. Partners in Caring has expended to four counties across the state, serving over 400 families with its 70 on-call volunteers.

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  • Nigerian women fight skin bleaching, colorism in Africa 

    April 15, 2022 |

    Amjambo Africa |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Benin City, Edo

    The Embrace Melanin Initiative works to eradicate colorism and harmful skin practices, like skin bleaching. Since forming in 2018, the organization estimates that it has impacted over 10,000 people globally through speaking events, online and offline advocacy programs, and other dermatological and psychological services.

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  • To find out where the covid pandemic is headed, look here: The sewer

    April 14, 2022 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses a nationwide wastewater monitoring system to detect rising and falling levels of COVID-19 in the population. Infected people shed virus when they use the toilet, even if they don’t have symptoms, alerting officials 4-6 days before people start testing positive. The anonymous and inexpensive monitoring system has been relied on by local and state health officials to run targeted awareness campaigns and shift policies, like mask guidance, to effectively contain outbreaks.

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  • Can Produce Prescription Programs Turn the Tide on Diet-Related Disease?

    April 11, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Alameda County, California

    ALL IN is a produce prescription program that gives patients, who are dealing with a variety of cardio-metabolic or behavioral conditions, free fruits and vegetables paired with behavioral interventions, like exercise. Its “three-ingredient approach” includes a prescription for 16 weekly bags of produce that are delivered for free by a local farm, free exercise and stress-reduction classes, and food-as-medicine training for clinic staff who are key in patients’ success.

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  • Can We Build Less Biased Medical Bots?

    April 11, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Melalogic is an app that provides skin health resources to people with dark skin. The uses crowdsourced imaging data to confront racial bias in diagnostic artificial intelligence. Users can access the Black Skin Resource Center with information on 14 issues that affect people with darker skin. The app also shares health posters that physicians use to share information with their patients and videos with dermatologic tips. In the works is Melalogic 2.0, an immersive telehealth experience.

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  • Grown-to-Order Veggies

    April 11, 2022 |

    Inside Turkey |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Sivas

    Farmobile allows people to pick seasonal produce and have it grown for them on leased land and receive shipments of the crop once it starts producing. Farmobile makes safe, healthy, freshly grown produce more accessible to those without a means to farm.

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  • Nigerian Medical Students' Association: Active Citizenship for Health Improving Malaria Prevention and Treatment Awareness

    April 11, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Different chapters of the Nigerian Medical Students’ Association came together to form the National Malaria Elimination and Sensitisation Project or NMESP in 2021 wherein 433 of their members volunteered to carry out outreach work. They collaborated with local churches, youth groups, and the local health centers to reach the community. In 46 days, they had spread malaria awareness in about 38 communities and tested 523 people with Rapid Diagnostic Test kits. They also prescribed medications, and distributed free repellents and insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

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  • Small town, big numbers

    April 07, 2022 |

    The Lewiston Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Elk River, Idaho

    The Clearwater Canyon Pharmacy helped organize an easily accessible COVID-19 vaccine clinic in a rural, elderly town, increasing its vaccine status to 75%, an unprecedented number in the area.

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