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  • UPS is now using drones to deliver blood to a hospital

    March 27, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Raleigh, North Carolina

    The United States Postal Service has launched a drone delivery service that has the potential to save lives due to the time it cuts down on providing medical supplies. Currently, the service is only transporting blood and other medical supplies between buildings at WakeMed Raleigh’s medical campus, but has the potential to scale up in the future.

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  • Mobile Health Clinic Unveiled To Serve Uninsured While Lowering Emergency Room Use

    March 21, 2019 |

    KUER Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    In Utah, expanding health care access is taking shape in the form of RVs equipped with exam rooms, medical assistants and a nurse. Specifically designed to serve uninsured community members, the newest mobile health clinic offers "a specialized focus on women’s health, as well as mental health and substance abuse services, including medication assisted treatment which is used to help wean people of opioids."

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  • How Telangana is improving maternal mortality and bringing down C-sections

    March 18, 2019 |

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    Response Location: India, Karimnagar, Telangana

    To address the issue of maternal mortality that was linked with women giving birth at private hospitals instead of public, Telangana implemented a series of reforms including childbirth kits, financial incentives, an ambulance system, and enhanced training and guidelines. The state has now seen an increase in natural childbirth in public hospital facilities and credits these solutions as ways of making "public health facilities less intimidating."

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  • Au Burkina Faso, la «paire éducation» pour venir à bout du sida

    March 11, 2019 |

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    Response Location: Burkina Faso

    Pour lutter contre la propagation Sida, le Burkina Faso mise sur l'éducation par les pairs.Le pays peut se targuer d’avoir vu réduit de moitié le nombre de décès liés au sida depuis dix ans.

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  • India Fights Diabetic Blindness With Help From A.I.

    March 10, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Madurai

    Compared to India's population, the country is facing a shortage of eye doctors, but artificial intelligence may help close that gap. Partnering with Google artificial intelligence researchers, an eye hospital in India is working towards detecting diseases that can cause blindness by automating the process that leads to a diagnosis.

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  • Ypsi-based program aims to restore dignity for women giving birth while incarcerated

    March 06, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ypsilanti, Michigan

    The Michigan Prison Doula Initiative seeks to provide pregnant women experiencing incarceration the support and care they need to maintain physical and mental health before, during, and after giving birth. The initiative has partnered with the Michigan Department of Corrections to start work in one prison – with the hopes of expanding to others – by providing prenatal counseling, support during birth, and postpartum visits.

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  • These women of color tackle lactation disparities one belly bump at a time

    March 05, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Young mothers don't always have access to the resources they need to better understand breastfeeding, but programs in Philadelphia, are working to address this. From creating a city-wide awareness campaign to meeting people where they're at, whether that be on social media or in their hospital room, the efforts of community members and city officials are showing results.

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  • Telemedicine May Provide Rural Abuse-Counseling Solution

    March 04, 2019 |

    West Virginia Public Broadcasting |

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    Response Location: United States, Wyoming

    In rural parts of Wyoming, many people have trouble accessing mental health care resources, but telemedicine is changing that. Employing graduate students as counselors, people can access a telehealth clinic in order to obtain support in the form of specialized trauma care.

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  • NH's Hub and Spoke system: Traction or just spinning wheels?

    March 01, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Vermont's hub and spoke model of care has gained notoriety as being a system that has successfully played a positive role in creating better access to health care, especially as it relates to the opioid crisis. Now, officials in New Hampshire are looking to scale and adapt the program to work in their state.

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  • This professor suffers from a mystery disease, so she developed an app to track its effects

    March 01, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Endometriosis impacts millions of women across the world, but many don't know what sort of symptoms to look for or how to treat it. To address this, a team at Columbia University developed an app that focuses on awareness and early diagnosis.

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