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Colorado's Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success

Sabrina Tavernise

July 05, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Walsenburg, Colorado

Colorado causes a large decline in teen pregnancy and abortions by implementing free, long-term birth control to prevent pregnancy. While demonstrating massive success, its continuity is in the air considering the ongoing fight over health insurance at the federal level.

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

Noelle Swan

June 15, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

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

Jens Erik Gould

June 12, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City

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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Wisconsin is learning how to die

Sarah Kliff

May 28, 2015 |

Vox |

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Response Location: United States, La Crosse, Wisconsin

Encouraging conversations with doctors about end-of-life care helps to normalize the process for patients, and ultimately helps to reduce medical costs. The Respecting Choices program developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, provides a model for doctors to follow in discussing end-of-life care with patients. Following the script helps patient’s engage in difficult conversations and allows doctors to make advanced planning a part of a patient’s medical record. Such planning also reduces end of life costs.

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How one rural Alabama hospital bucked the trend and will reopen its labor & delivery

Anna Claire Vollers

May 27, 2015 |

AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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Response Location: United States, Alabama

Rural areas are seeing the shut down of medical services such as Labor & Delivery units, making it harder for expectant mothers to receive proper care. Dr. Waits in Bibb County is opening a Labor & delivery unit through critical funding, and using the unit for more than just obstetrics.

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St. Michael's Hospital Health team offers prescription for poverty

Catherine Porter

May 23, 2015 |

Toronto Star |

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Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

Poverty increases the risk of illness due to insecure housing, unstable employment, poor education, etc. A hospital program in Toronto addresses these social determinants for health by prescribing patients to apply for government subsidies and gives them the legal aid to do so.

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Doctors and Lawyers: An Innovative Partnership in Kalihi

Anita Hofschneider

May 20, 2015 |

Honolulu Civil Beat |

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Response Location: United States, Honolulu, Hawaii

Problems such as discrimination, unemployment, and homelessness can be at the root of chronic health problems such as diabetes. The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children in Hawaii provide a holistic approach to healthcare, providing essential legal services for the most vulnerable among Kalihi’s community, in particular its large immigrant population.

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Nepal's Renegade Strategy to Save Mothers

Patrick Adams

May 15, 2015 |

Foreign Policy |

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Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu, Central Region

In Nepal, a controversial drug is proving to be effective in saving mother's lives. It's the only shelf-stable, easy-to-administer solution to curbing postpartum hemorrhage. In trials, misoprostol is shown to save the lives of women who live far from medical care facilities. Since Nepal allowed use of the drug, postpartum hemorrhage has fallen from the leading cause of maternal death to number two.

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At Cedars-Sinai, technology spurs improved, lower cost care

Rebecca Plevin

May 13, 2015 |

Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

One challenge of the United States’ health care system involves keeping costs down while simultaneously improving the level of quality care. Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles has adopted electronic medical records in accordance with the Choosing Wisely campaign, which offers guidelines on different tests and treatments to reduce wasteful or harmful ones for patients. The electronic medical records have helped doctors by alerting which prescriptions to avoid, and have overall reduced health care costs by $4 million.

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Overkill

Atul Gawande

May 11, 2015 |

The New Yorker |

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Response Location: United States, McAllen, Texas

An investigation reveals a startling percentage of medical procedures provided in the United States are unnecessary or inappropriate - harming patients physically as well as financially. This "profit-maximizing medical culture" can be countered by incentivizing health care facilities to eliminate needless procedures, federal crackdowns, and increasing access to information for patients.

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