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  • Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

    The Matsés, an indigenous population in Brazil in Peru, teamed up with Acaté, a conservation group, to create a medicinal knowledge encyclopedia. The encyclopedia was compiled by five shamans, took two years, is 500 pages long, and “details every plant used by Matsés to cure a massive variety of ailments.” It not only preserves ancestral knowledge, but is seen as a way to improve the health of Matsés and future generations. “Until their encyclopedia, the Matsés entire traditional health system was on the unchecked verge of disappearance.”

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  • Detroit Team Shrinks Breastfeeding Disparities

    At St. John Hospital in Detroit, the principles of cultural sensitivity and collaboration—as well as lots of fundraising—have boosted previously low breastfeeding rates by black mothers.

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  • Cost-effective way to prevent chronic asthma in kids has Cleveland roots

    Low income children in Cleveland with severe, chronic asthma are given quality treatment but often live in substandard housing with mold, dust, lead or secondhand smoke and continue suffering potentially lethal attacks. The Cleveland's asthma home visit program, has cut hospitalisations in half by helping families eliminate asthma triggers at home.

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  • Virtual Assistant: a 3-D avatar, the best classmate for deaf students

    In Honduras, tens of thousands of people have hearing disabilities. The National Autonomous University of Honduras has developed software that converts spoken language into an avatar on the computer who signs for the hearing impaired. Teachers in classrooms can teach hearing impaired students with this new software.

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  • A Sea Change in Treating Heart Attacks

    When a heart attack happens, the time of care and treatment is of utmost importance. Many people die of heart attacks every year because too much time passes between the care of emergency staff and the hospital cardiologists. New protocols, and new technology that transmits the EKG of a patient to the hospital before arrival, enable medical professionals to quickly and efficiently treat patients, thus saving lives.

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  • In Los Angeles, a national model for how to police the mentally ill

    How are people with mental illness policed in the U.S.? Unfortunately, often people with mental illness are sent to prison, instead of being treated. There are “10 times as many inmates diagnosed with severe mental illness in the penal system as patients in state mental institutes.” However, in Los Angeles police are paired with mental health clinicians. A move that is saving the city money, and keeping people out of prison.

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  • Advancing TB Test Technology, Where It Matters Most

    Tuberculosis is still a rampant problem in the developing world. Doctors are looking for even more advanced ways to test for TB beyond the GeneXpert tests.

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  • How An Economist Helped Patients Find The Right Kidney Donors

    If you've got a life-threatening medical condition, your first call might not be to an economist. But Alvin Roth used a theory about matching markets to help connect kidney patients and donors.

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  • How some nail salons in California are finding a less toxic way to work

    Nail salons offer services that often are toxic to their workers, from manicures causing acrylic dust in the air to the chemicals that can permeate through skin. Salon workers complain of respiratory problems and sometimes cancer. The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative offers certification in maintaining safe practices for their workers, offering an incentive for the use of ventilation equipment and gloves.

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  • Wyoming Elderly Tough It Out Even As Younger Generations Migrate Away

    These days, most rural communities in the U.S. are elderly communities - 15 percent of Wyoming’s population is over 65 and a high percentage of them live on ranches in small towns. New caregiver programs allow seniors to continue living at home and to keep doing what they are able, with assistance provided if needed.

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