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  • New organ donation system all about heart

    Organ donation in China has become increasingly transparent in recent years, leading to an increase in the number of people agreeing to donate. Now that there is a transparent, national donation system this trend is expected to continue.

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  • Inviting Patients To Help Decide Their Own Treatment

    The Patient Support Corps at UC San Francisco Medical Center pairs interns with patients to provide support during visits. The program, which now acts as a model for other hospitals, encourages patients to speak up and offers them the information needed to make decisions about their care, rather than having the doctors make the decision for them.

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  • Syria's next generation

    The refugee crisis in Syria is one of modern society's greatest diasporas. Syria's refugee children are not a lost generation, but the country's next generation, according to volunteers who want to prepare them for the future.

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  • How this clinic has changed a nation's view of family planning

    Women in the Philippines have been coming to this small clinic in a Manila slum for years to get affordable birth control, something frowned upon in this largely conservative Catholic country.

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  • In this Manila 'baby factory,' why women put up with crowding four to a bed

    Fabella Hospital in Manila is overrun with women in labor or recovering, it exemplifies the overpopulation of the area due to a lack of contraception and family planning access. The Philippines’ Reproductive Health Bill hopes to change this by allowing contraception to be available at public health places and allowing family planning services at these facilities.

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  • Police and the mentally ill: LAPD praised as a model for nation

    LAPD's special team, the Mental Evaluation Unit, is teaming up police officers with mental health clinicians to better approach and address individuals suffering from a mental health crisis. Rather than sending them to jail - where resources are limited and a vicious cycle often results - the teams help ensure patients get the medical care they need, preventing brushes with the law and county millions of dollars and freed up thousands of hours of patrol time. Their model is being replicated nation-wide.

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  • A Vermont-Made App That Could Save Kids' Lives

    Medical providers, tech experts and business professionals joined together to create in Vermont to create MEDSINC, a mobile app that helps people with no medical background to treat children with health risks. The "mobile intelligence software" provides a list of questions to help assess a child's health risks and, based on results, offers treatment suggestions. An early pilot shows, "the app's recommendations have corresponded to those of actual pediatricians 94 percent of the time."

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  • How 'Flower Beds' Give Love And Lentils To Moms And Babies

    Fulwaris—meaning "flower beds"—are a network of nurseries run entirely by moms in the community who take turns feeding and caring for each other's children, allowing the community to raise children in a tough environment.

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  • Blood transfusions show early promise as possible Ebola cure

    As trials on blood and plasma progress, researchers ask if they might have happened sooner. In any case, the blood transfusions show early success.

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  • Can Storytelling Help Destroy the Stigma Associated With Abortion?

    Abortion is a highly stigmatized topic that can lead individuals to selectively disclose who they tell about the experience. Storytelling is now being viewed as a way to help de-stigmatize abortion based on contact theory and empathy as a means of bringing people together.

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