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  • The App Helping Africa's Midwives Save Lives

    A mobile health project in Ethiopia gives any health worker with a smartphone access to the information they need to deal with emergencies during childbirth. Now it's being scaled up to reach 10,000 health workers across Africa and Southeast Asia by 2017.

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  • Project ECHO Expands Reach Of Medical Specialists In Rural New Mexico

    In many rural communities, access to specialty care represents the biggest health challenge. Since 2003, a groundbreaking initiative called Project Echo at the University of New Mexico has confronted that gap — with promising results in small towns across New Mexico and, now, around the world.

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  • Homeless People Are Older and Sicker Than Ever. Here's One Way to Help.

    Medical care for the homeless used to be served only in a hospital emergency room, where patients were released before fully-recovered and often needed to return multiple times for treatment. San Francisco’s Respite program offers medical care to the sickest of the homeless population who frequent the emergency room. Statistics show that people who use the Respite program are less likely to need further treatment at the emergency room and former patients have praised it as a lifesaver.

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  • Can Alamosa find a fix for the ‘catch-all' emergency room?

    Wellness centers around Colorado aim to fill the treatment gap left by lack of mental health crisis intervention services. Rather than send individuals in a mental health crisis to a traditional emergency room - which can be overwhelming and increase anxiety for these patients - communities take advantage of alternative wellness centers that offer soothing settings and comforting staff.

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  • A video fix for rural healthcare's challenges

    The Access to Critical Cerebral Support Services (ACCESS) program in New Mexico allows Albuquerque specialists to video call into rural hospitals to give advice and direction in the case of stroke victims. The program saves smaller communities from having to fly patients who are having a stroke to larger cities, which often takes up critical time in which a patient needs to be treated.

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  • Doctors Get Creative To Soothe Tech-Savvy Kids Before Surgery

    Undergoing surgery is a stress-inducing prospect for anyone, but children are especially vulnerable to anxiety prior to operations. To avoid using risky anti-anxiety medications on young patients, two anesthesiologists at the Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford have developed creative techniques to distract children from their forthcoming surgeries. They use toys and a unique low-cost video projection system called BERT-Bedside Entertainment Theater.

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  • From Uruguay, a Model for Making Abortion Safer

    In Uruguay, illegality and stigma surrounding abortions resulted in problems with maternal mortality rates. Utilizing a unique solution, a medical protocol was created to provide initial information and followup care to women seeking abortions.

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  • Music therapists, once marginalized, come into the mainstream at children's hospitals

    Hospitals can be stressful places for children and their families, but music therapy can help ease some of that stress. At Boston Children's Hospital, music therapists help children complete tasks such as using the restroom or having their blood drawn, and sometimes they even help families say goodbye to their children. Music therapy has been shown to help premature babies develop, normalize blood pressure and heart rate, and improve motor control.

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  • Syria's War on Doctors

    In Syria, medical personnel are at risk of death as hospitals are frequent targets of bombing. With few medical specialists treating an assortment of injuries and diseases under the most dangerous circumstances, doctors began an underground network. This network installs cameras in hospital rooms to send pictures over mobile media to doctors abroad, doctors working on-site change their names, and animal waste powers the operations.

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  • Malaria scheme cuts child deaths during Sahel's rainy season

    Malaria vaccine distribution systems in Africa's Sahel region are facing bottleneck in their supply chains, but are working to get help from the government and to piggyback on other aid systems.

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