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  • Facebook Raises The Status Of Organ Donation, Study Shows

    June 18, 2013 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Medical professionals say that there is a shortage of organs available for patients awaiting transplants. The first step towards the solution involves increasing awareness of organ donation as a viable and compassionate option. In 2012, the social media platform Facebook collaborated with surgeons to create the Organ Donor option—and, one year later, the number of organ donors increased five times.

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  • A Tornado-Stricken City Is Teaching The World How To Build A Disaster-Proof Hospital

    June 18, 2013 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Moore, Oklahoma

    After a powerful storm destroyed their hospital and left lives at risk, Moore, Oklahoma is rebuilding a new type of facility that can weather a tornado. They are helping other cities learn how to do the same, ensuring that lives can still be saved in the face of such storms.

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  • A By-the-E-Book Education, for $5 a Month

    May 22, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu, Nyanza

    For-profit companies are making good private schools available even to Africa’s poor. They can do it – and can do it on an enormous scale – by hiring neighborhood residents to teach, and scripting out every word of every lesson on an e-reader.

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  • Hospital uses power of architecture to promote healing

    May 06, 2013 |

    The Globe and Mail |

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    Response Location: Canada, Sechelt, British Columbia

    The architecture of a hospital can have huge effects on those inside it: the strain that old hospital buildings put on nurses, who spend too much of their time walking from one supply room to another, and on patients, whose already frail health is tested by living in rooms with one to three other patients, by the noise of the hospital, by infections. St. Mary’s Hospital in Sechelt, B.C., opened a new $44-million dollar building that has made the inside quality of life and care better.

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  • The Power of Talking to Your Baby

    April 10, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Providence, Rhode Island

    By the time a poor child is three, she will have heard 30 million fewer words than a 3-year-old child from a professional family. Research shows that word gap is what makes the poor less likely to do well in school. The city of Providence, RI, is doing something about it.

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  • Medicine by Text Message: Learning From the Developing World

    April 04, 2013 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: Malawi

    Health communication systems designed for rural, developing countries -- where hospitals are often understaffed and transportation is inadequate -- are being adapted to improve care in U.S. cities.

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  • Where YouTube Meets the Farm

    April 03, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Karnataka

    To combat hunger and malnutrition, Digital Green, an N.G.O., is creating and delivering videos about cheap, innovative farming techniques that can substantially increase small farmers' production of staple foods in India, Ghana, and Ethiopia.

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  • Conservation Pays Off for Bangladeshi Factories

    March 21, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Saving money while conserving water and electricity is a win-win for the textile industry in Bangladesh. After a joint effort to improve the mechanics and upgrade the factories, the industry saw a savings of 1.2 million cubic meters of water, 16 million cubic meters of gas and 10 million kilowatt hours of electricity.

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  • The Benefits of Mobile Health, on Hold

    March 13, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    The mobile phone is doing more than revolutionizing communication. It has the potential to improve many aspects of life in poor countries: commerce, health, agriculture, education - public health, especially, is being revolutionized by governments taking advantage of the mobile revolution by texting advice or sending voice messages to pregnant women, texting reminders to AIDS patients to take their meds, tracking the spread of diseases, allowing community health workers to keep records electronically and variations on all these themes.

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  • Using The Crowd To Save People After Disasters

    February 19, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    CrowdFlower, a site which pays people to do microtasks, has found that it can be an extremely fast and effective medium between aid workers and locals during disasters.

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