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  • ‘Memory cafe' takes aim at elder isolation, dementia concerns

    January 18, 2017 |

    The Bay State Banner |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Memory cafes are places were seniors with cognitive challenges can gather for a meal, enjoy entertainment, and share their thoughts and ideas. Through these gatherings, the cafe addresses the isolation and loneliness that often comes with dementia.

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  • This Gunshot Survivor Is a Motivational Guru for People Living in Wheelchairs

    January 17, 2017 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Tyrone Shoemake is an advocate for people who use wheelchairs for mobility—especially those who are victims of gunshot wounds, like him. When an online video of Shoemake doing pull-ups from his chair went viral, he kept the momentum growing with outreach to those he hopes to empower.

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  • Mobile Team Offers Comfort Care To Homeless At Life's End

    January 12, 2017 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    People who are homeless and have a terminal illness usually end up in the emergency room which is more expensive and less effective. The UW Medicine’s Harboview Medical Center is the first U.S. program that sends mobile teams to provide palliative care, comfort care, to homeless people facing terminal illness.

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  • A Fix for Gender Bias in Health Care? Check

    January 11, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    At Johns Hopkins, implicit gender bias was recognized as one of the main reasons for unequal diagnosis and treatment of preventable blood clots. A blood clot prevention checklist was created to disrupt this bias, both by dissagregating decisions as well as reducing intervention of human judgement.

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  • After Flint, are schools being more vigilant about tainted water?

    January 06, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

    For most states in the U.S. water testing is voluntary which fails to ensure healthy drinking water. The Flint, Mich., water crisis is leading a number of states to test their school facilities for lead in the water and post the results online.

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  • Attitudes Toward Female Genital Mutilation Changing in Ethiopia

    January 05, 2017 |

    Voice of America (VOA) |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia

    An estimated 200 million woman have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a procedure which can lead to “hemorrhaging, scarring, infections and psychological trauma.” However, one nonprofit, called KMG, has made giant strides in their community and reduced the practice from 97 percent to five percent. How do you change FGM? You talk. “We don’t dictate, we just discuss,” said the founder.

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  • Sex ed may be a class, but experts say the best education begins at home

    January 05, 2017 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Polls suggest that teenagers’ attitudes and beliefs about sex come mainly from their parents, but parents rarely feel like experts talking about sex. “Talk, the New Sex Ed,” is a non-profit in Pittsburgh which works with parents in an after-school setting, giving them a conversational framework to talk about sex with their children.

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  • A Bipartisan Reason to Save Obamacare

    January 04, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Affordable Care Act has been one of the most contentious policies in recent history, with widespread disagreement between political parties. While it is typically viewed as a partisan issue, this article recognizes benefits that defy party lines, mainly in regards to the Act's attempts to increase innovation across the US Medical Industry, facilitating a value-based care model.

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  • Cloud Catchers In Peru

    January 01, 2017 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Peru, Villa Lordes, Lima Metropolitan Area

    Abel Cruz "catches" clouds on his fog net farm to help provide free water for his community in a slum on the outskirts of Lima, where access to water is very limited and costly. While this solution may never compete with large scale and traditional technologies, many argue there is enormous potential for this simple concept in certain, rural areas of the world.

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  • This country has only 10 psychiatrists. That's where 'professional grandmothers' come in.

    December 29, 2016 |

    Upworthy |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe

    In Zimbabwe, a country of 15 million people, there are only around 10 psychiatrists. The Friendship Bench Project trained local older women in problem-solving therapy to be community health care workers. By increasing access to this service of listening and personal advising, the “grandmothers” are defusing the depression in individuals who visit with them on a Friendship Bench.

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