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Scientists search Palau's coral reefs for new anti-cancer drugs

Ari Daniel Shapiro

February 24, 2014 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Palau

Often it is faster and easier to harvest molecules for medical purposes from nature than to make them in a laboratory. A scientist is looking for cancer-fighting molecules in coral and sponges in the tropical Pacific.

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A Small West Virginia Town Rallies For Better Health

Ankita Rao

February 05, 2014 |

Kaiser Health News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Williamson, West Virginia

“Sustainable Williamson” combined ideas and initiatives from local officials, community members, nonprofit organizations to address both the economy and the well-being of a community where unemployment and drug use were climbing.

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An Afghan Success Story: Fewer Child Deaths

Sean Carberry

February 04, 2014 |

NPR |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Afghanistan, Guldara

Child mortality rates are decreasing in Afghanistan due to more readily available basic health care, more effective vaccinations, and locally-trained volunteer health workers.

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Playing With Toys and Saving Lives

Tina Rosenberg

January 29, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nicaragua, Jinotepe, Carazo

Many different people are inventing health devices for resource-poor settings, but some organizations - like M.I.T.’s Little Devices group - are empowering developing communities and increasing access to healthcare by building medical devices that nurses and doctors in very poor settings can adapt themselves — or kits for making their own, often harvesting parts from toys to cleverly rig up medical equipment. It’s part of a major idea shift, one that’s transforming the design of foreign aid.

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The Hospital Is No Place for the Elderly

Jonathan Rauch

December 01, 2013 |

The Atlantic |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

As the elderly become more likely to have multiple chronic conditions and experience a gradual decline in health towards the end of their lives, a health care approach that centers hospitalization and intensive care might be ineffective and inefficient. Sutter's Advanced Illness Management program (AIM) is using a new, home-based approach to keep down costs and increase quality of life.

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Treating the Village to Cure the Disease

Jason Silverstein

November 06, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Togo

In communities across Africa, health workers are going house to house with medicine to combat lymphatic filariasis, which is the world’s second-largest cause of chronic disability. They are participating in a strategy called mass drug administration, which treats everyone in an area where a disease is found – even if they aren’t sick or infected.

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Art Program in Harlem Strives to Improve Quality of Life for Those Affected by Alzheimer's and Dementia

Contessa Gayles

October 24, 2013 |

NewsDoc Voices |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Arts & Minds is a program run by the Studio Museum in Harlem that provides opportunities for people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers to be creative and express themselves in a way that does not require language. While similiar to the programs of other museums, the Studio Museum’s program is unique in that by its location it is accessible to people of a lower socioeconomic status compared to museums located in wealthier Manhattan neighborhoods.

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Global Rate Of HIV Infection, AIDS-Related Deaths Dramatically Reduced: UN

Kate Kelland

September 23, 2013 |

The Huffington Post |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Switzerland, Geneva

HIV/AIDS infection and death rates are down world-wide, due to an increasing access to anti-retroviral treatment that has come from private donations, UN-work, and increased public health spending by heavily affected countries.

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It really does take a village: How Memphis is fixing healthcare

Alex Halperin

September 03, 2013 |

Salon |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

Preventing and treating chronic disease for low-income patients is one of the most vexing and expensive public health problems in this country - the healthcare system in Memphis, Tennessee, is not immune. But in the middle of the last decade, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis’s largest hospital system, began teaming up with churches to address the city’s abysmal health situation and reduce the cost of care.

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Talking Female Circumcision Out of Existence

Tina Rosenberg

July 17, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Ethiopia, Kembata Alaba and Tembaro, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region

There is nothing more difficult than changing entrenched cultural practices, especially those as shrouded in taboos as female genital cutting. A grassroots approach in Ethiopia, however, has nearly completely eradicated this practice in villages that use it.

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