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Can Wild Foods Save the Amazon?

Virginia Gewin

October 23, 2018 |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Peru, Lima

At Expo Amazonica in Lima, chefs are working to build a taste for traditional Amazonian foods, in an effort to promote biodiversity conservation and slow deforestation. But against a huge global demand for palm oil, growing wild food crops can be difficult for communities struggling to make ends meet. One big question is whether small farmers can create demand for Amazonian cuisine beyond the Amazon?

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A sea change: how one small island showed us how to save our oceans

Sandra Laville

October 23, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Isle of Man

Over the last ten years, the Isle of Man has worked to implement regulations around plastic pollution, climate change and overfishing. From a locally owned beach clean-up charity to creating marine nature reserves, the Isle of Man is now a model for neighboring countries on how to achieve this level of success.

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Drug Users Fight for Acceptance in California's Deep North

Judith Lewis Mernit

October 23, 2018 |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Eureka, California

Syringe exchange programs throughout the United States have been surrounded by controversy, but that doesn't mean they haven't had positive impacts on the community they serve. In northern California, the Humboldt Area Center for Harm Reduction not only provides clean syringes and overdose medications, but also serves as a place for building community, treating mental health concerns and preventing disease.

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Tech That Tricks the Brain

Ammar Ebrahim

October 23, 2018 |

BBC |

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Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: England, London

Assistive, wearable technology has been developed to send tactile or visual information to the brain in order to address mental or physiological challenges. One company has made a bracelet that can calm or energize a person through heartbeat-like pulses, while another created a shoe that projects forward a short colored laser to overcome the ‘frozen gait’ experienced by people with Parkinson’s disease.

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Can Harm Reduction Roll Back an Epidemic of Drug-Related Deaths and Disease?

Judith Lewis Mernit

October 22, 2018 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Ukiah, California

Harm reduction is a quickly growing practices that aims to reduce drug-related deaths and the spread of disease often caused by dirty needles. Although public perception is still widely negative, the industry has seen success by using the act of offering clean needles as a first point of contact to offer other health and medical services.

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Saving Mila: How doctors raced to stop a young girl's rare disease

Meghana Keshavan

October 22, 2018 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Doctors created a therapy for one young girl's supposedly fatal disease in record time. The patient's parents worked to fund research for the drug using social media and crowd funding. The drug is working, but the results will be difficult or even impossible to replicate.

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Getting Rid of Those Old Style Hospital Gowns

Nancy Benson

October 21, 2018 |

Radio Health Journal |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Hospital gowns historically aren't designed for the patient, but rather for the conveniency of the medical staff; however, several hospitals throughout the United States have decided to change this after negative patient feedback. Designs are still being developed, but so far designers are focusing on making sure the gowns are respectful and modest.

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Mothers lead children HIV transmission fight in Kisii and Homa Bay

Angela Oketch

October 21, 2018 |

Business Daily |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Kenya

A mentorship program in Kenya has proven effective at slashing rates of HIV transmission to infants and reducing stigma surrounding the illness. Mentor mothers offer support and education to HIV-positive pregnant women to ensure they stay on anti-retro viral drugs to avoid passing the virus to their unborn children and they work with them through the first 18 months of a child's life. Similar programs in other African countries have reached an estimated 1.4 million HIV-positive women.

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With genome sequencing, some sick infants are getting a shot at healthy lives

Meghana Keshavan

October 19, 2018 |

STAT |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Project Baby Bear is a grant-funded pilot program that uses genome sequencing to to diagnose sick infants. The doctors hope to save lives and save the system money on unnecessary treatments. Since very few sick infants show symptoms that correlate to their genetic diagnosis, these tests are instrumental in positive health outcomes.

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Women in the U.S. Can Now Get Safe Abortions by Mail

Olga Khazan

October 18, 2018 |

The Atlantic |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Aid Access is the first company to send abortion pills to women who cannot access health services in the United States. The company conducts online appointments before sending the drugs. Women on the Web has done this work internationally for years, but the service was not available in the United States.

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