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  • Chasing Heroin

    February 23, 2016 |

    PBS Frontline |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    A two-hour investigation places America’s heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light -- telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic's years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in U.S. drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime.

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  • When Opera Meets Autism

    February 23, 2016 |

    WNYC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A neuropsychologist and opera singer teamed up to create a form of vocal training for people on the autism spectrum.

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  • Kenyans Reacquire an Old Taste: Eating Healthier

    February 23, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    In colonial times, diets and agricultural work in Kenya focused on corn and rice, alongside produce grown elsewhere. Health-consciousness is now restoring nutritious local fruits and vegetables to Kenyan tables, in part by teaching horticulture students in university.

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  • The animals that sniff out TB, cancer and landmines

    February 16, 2016 |

    Mosaic Science |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Tanzania, Morogoro

    Africa has the highest TB death rate per head of population and though antibiotics can cure Tb many patients are never diagnosed because the diagnostic tests have a 40% error rate. A group of scientists in Tanzania have trained rats to diagnose TB with a 30% error rate, inspired by rats trained to search for land mines and dogs trained to smell cancer.

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  • Innovative 'HUB' model improves infant mortality and saves money: Saving the Smallest

    February 03, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    The Pathways Community HUB model, born in Mansfield as way to improve pregnancy outcomes, is becoming a national model. Its success is in large part due to its rewarding only caretakers whose patients achieve certain health milestones.

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  • Hospitals Focus on Doing No Harm

    February 02, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Orlando, Florida

    Hospitals across the United States are trying, in systematic ways, to reduce the risk of infection and other preventable dangers that can leave patients in worse shape after their stay. Some of the approaches include limiting entrances and exits during surgeries and administering antibiotics in a timely manner.

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  • Communication Failures Linked to 1,744 Deaths in Five Years, US Malpractice Study Finds

    February 01, 2016 |

    STAT |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    A team is trying to improve communication through I-PASS, a methodical way to relay information during patient “handoffs” when doctors and nurses change shifts.

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  • Contraception Drones Are The Future Of Women's Health In Rural Africa

    January 27, 2016 |

    Pulitzer Center |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Ghana

    Project Last Mile has for months been successfully flying birth control, condoms and other medical supplies to rural areas of Ghana on 5-foot-wide drones, expanding access by completing that final mile of delivery.

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  • Reducing Preventable Harm in Hospitals

    January 26, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Agencies and hospitals working together want methods and protocols with which to guard better against the risks that can harm the patient. The key may be the "Swiss cheese model," by which a hospital must have multiple lines of defense to compensate for each individual system's weaknesses.

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  • Journal Editors To Researchers: Show Everyone Your Clinical Data

    January 26, 2016 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    The editors of the leading medical journals around have said that researchers would have to publicly share the data gathered in their clinical studies as a condition of publishing the results in the journals. Doing so would allow the results to be verified.

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