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  • Wilmington's Solution to the Opioid Crisis

    The opioid crisis has resulted in numerous addictions, overdoses and deaths, leading North Carolina to reassess how they are handling the crisis. A rapid-response team checks on users after being given naloxone, health-care navigators will help users get treatment, and individuals will be sent to treatment instead of prison.

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  • This All-Amputee Softball Team is Changing the Way We Think About Treating Trauma

    As the number of veterans with both physical and psychological injuries balloons, this softball team of 11 wounded warriors wards helps one another deal with war trauma and combat isolation by playing a little ball.

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  • The low-cost device saving newborns in India

    A neonatal hospital in Indore, India has been using a device called a MiraCradle that is showing success in treating birth asphyxia. This low-cost solution is helping to address a significant problem of neonatal deaths in the country and is also now being used in South Africa.

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  • Santa Fe clinic steps to the plate in opioid war

    New Mexico has been fighting the rise of the opioid epidemic for decades, so when medical professionals noticed an increase in opioid-dependent mothers giving birth, one doctor started a new program to address this. This program uses both medication-assisted substance abuse treatment and behavioral therapy, and has resulted in a decrease in overdose deaths.

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  • We need to change how we bury the dead

    Burying the deceased in a traditional casket has shown to have harmful impacts on the environment. Reforming this process by implementing one of the several green options such as cremation, natural burials, or alkaline hydrolysis can lead to not only better environmental health, but also save resources such as money and space.

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  • Virginia parents to receive free ‘baby boxes,' part of campaign to promote safe sleep

    The USA wants to reduce its infant mortality rate by educating parents about how to keep their child safe while they sleep. Baby Box Co has put together boxes for new parents with tutorials, baby supplies and a mattress, to help prevent infant death.

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  • Finding Hope in a Hopeless Place

    Several medical groups and hospitals in Chicago have formed an alliance to provide the city's homeless population with adequate health care. Some health clinics treat hypothermia, heat stroke, and more and place an emphasis on building stability and trust with the homeless camps in the city; other research labs work to get homeless folks off the street as a longer-term solution.

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  • Caregiver support group aims to reduce elder abuse

    Apollo Healthcare Services has started an elder caregiver support group in Richland County, OH. The intent of this support group is to give caregivers an outlet to voice their frustrations or experiences that accompany elder caregiving so that they are less likely to take out that frustration on the elders in their care.

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  • How Louisville Crowdsourced a Treatment For Asthma Attacks

    The Kentucky metro area has some of the worst air quality in the country, leading to concerning rates of asthma and respiratory disease well above the national averages. But a group called AIR Louisville has implemented a creative, crowdsourced solution that utilizes GPS-enabled inhalers to help patients identify and address asthma patterns based on numerous factors such as avoiding heavily-polluted parts of town, and identifying the best treatments based on lifestyle needs.

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  • Lag In Brain Donation Hampers Understanding Of Dementia In Blacks

    There is a racial disparity in science, the black population is extremely underrepresented and due to historically terrible treatment of black individuals by science they are very reluctant to engage in research. Therefore, researchers are now starting to directly target black and other underrepresented groups to try to spur involvement.

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