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  • An Artificial Limb Can Bring Hope — But Who's Going To Make It?

    July 23, 2015 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    Prosthetics can change lives, but in some countries there aren't enough people trained to make the needed limbs, braces and splints. To address the shortage in Bangladesh, the Center for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed is partnering with Red Cross and international donors to offer free training for local clinicians, and free treatment for patients.

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  • Do no harm: There's an infection hospitals can nearly always prevent. Why don't they?

    July 09, 2015 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Roseville, California

    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 patients like they are in a car crash or a plane crash. Roseville Medical Center looked at the mistakes of other hospitals and have revolutionized how they treat central lines with a new checklist, a specialized vascular team tasked with the central lines, and annual competency tests for contract nurses.

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  • Everything you think you know about disciplining kids is wrong

    July 01, 2015 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, South Berwick, Maine

    Disciplining schoolchildren has led many students down the “school-to-prison-pipeline” because teachers have focused on controlling students rather than instilling problem solving skills. Ross Greene has developed Collaborative Proactive Solutions (CPS), which is a method that trains staff at schools to develop relationships with disruptive kids and help them problem solve. With the CPS method in practice in 2012, Central School has reported fewer students sent to the principal’s office and no suspensions.

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  • Cost-effective way to prevent chronic asthma in kids has Cleveland roots

    June 21, 2015 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    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 attacks. The Cleveland's asthma home visit program, has cut hospitalisations in half by helping families eliminate asthma triggers at home.

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  • A Sea Change in Treating Heart Attacks

    June 19, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    When a heart attack happens, the time of care and treatment is of utmost importance. Many people die of heart attacks every year because too much time passes between the care of emergency staff and the hospital cardiologists. New protocols, and new technology that transmits the EKG of a patient to the hospital before arrival, enable medical professionals to quickly and efficiently treat patients, thus saving lives.

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  • Advancing TB Test Technology, Where It Matters Most

    June 12, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City

    Tuberculosis is still a rampant problem in the developing world. Doctors are looking for even more advanced ways to test for TB beyond the GeneXpert tests.

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  • How An Economist Helped Patients Find The Right Kidney Donors

    June 11, 2015 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    If you've got a life-threatening medical condition, your first call might not be to an economist. But Alvin Roth used a theory about matching markets to help connect kidney patients and donors.

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  • How some nail salons in California are finding a less toxic way to work

    June 08, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, Alameda, California

    Nail salons offer services that often are toxic to their workers, from manicures causing acrylic dust in the air to the chemicals that can permeate through skin. Salon workers complain of respiratory problems and sometimes cancer. The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative offers certification in maintaining safe practices for their workers, offering an incentive for the use of ventilation equipment and gloves.

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  • What Do Teachers Do After Saying Goodbye to the Classroom?

    June 04, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Five past teachers take their knowledge, after years of being educators, to make greater movements and developments in the educational sphere.

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  • What if we prescribed video games, and not Ritalin, to treat ADHD?

    May 11, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Game inventors have created a new game to help students who suffer from ADHD and other mental problems develop and stimulate their brains in a safer, more targeted way than normal medicines.

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