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  • These Kenyan widows are fighting against sexual 'cleansing'

    October 23, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    In Kenya, and in other parts of Africa, widows are considered impure until a male has sex with them and cleanses them. If they don’t get cleansed they face social stigma. However, one widow, Roseline Orwa, refused, and instead created the Rona Foundation. “The center provides loss and grief counseling, financial support and teaches entrepreneurial skills.” She also successfully lobbied for a bill that outlawed widow cleansing. However, even though the practice is still prevalent in rural parts of Kenya, both men and women are talking about ending the practice through talk sessions offered by the center. “A

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  • Tech That Tricks the Brain

    October 23, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: England, London

    Assistive, wearable technology has been developed to send tactile or visual information to the brain in order to address mental or physiological challenges. One company has made a bracelet that can calm or energize a person through heartbeat-like pulses, while another created a shoe that projects forward a short colored laser to overcome the ‘frozen gait’ experienced by people with Parkinson’s disease.

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  • Saving Mila: How doctors raced to stop a young girl's rare disease

    October 22, 2018 |

    STAT |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Doctors created a therapy for one young girl's supposedly fatal disease in record time. The patient's parents worked to fund research for the drug using social media and crowd funding. The drug is working, but the results will be difficult or even impossible to replicate.

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  • Getting Rid of Those Old Style Hospital Gowns

    October 21, 2018 |

    Radio Health Journal |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chattanooga, Tennessee

    Hospital gowns historically aren't designed for the patient, but rather for the conveniency of the medical staff; however, several hospitals throughout the United States have decided to change this after negative patient feedback. Designs are still being developed, but so far designers are focusing on making sure the gowns are respectful and modest.

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  • Mothers lead children HIV transmission fight in Kisii and Homa Bay

    October 21, 2018 |

    Business Daily |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    A mentorship program in Kenya has proven effective at slashing rates of HIV transmission to infants and reducing stigma surrounding the illness. Mentor mothers offer support and education to HIV-positive pregnant women to ensure they stay on anti-retro viral drugs to avoid passing the virus to their unborn children and they work with them through the first 18 months of a child's life. Similar programs in other African countries have reached an estimated 1.4 million HIV-positive women.

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  • With genome sequencing, some sick infants are getting a shot at healthy lives

    October 19, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Project Baby Bear is a grant-funded pilot program that uses genome sequencing to to diagnose sick infants. The doctors hope to save lives and save the system money on unnecessary treatments. Since very few sick infants show symptoms that correlate to their genetic diagnosis, these tests are instrumental in positive health outcomes.

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  • Every Older Patient Has a Story. Medical Students Need to Hear It.

    October 12, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

    Some medical schools are now incorporating interviews with healthy seniors into their curriculum. These interactions help young medical students combat ageist stereotypes they may unconsciously develop through treating unhealthy older people. It also builds empathy and a sense of what good geriatric health looks like.

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  • After intermittent fasting, 3 men no longer take insulin for diabetes -- but experts stress caution

    October 10, 2018 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    A report from Canada says that intermittent fasting helped wean three men with type-2 diabetes off insulin. The idea of curing diabetes is not widely accepted in the medical field, but some medical professionals think that intermittent fasting can help abate symptoms and cause a kind of "remission." Study subjects fasted several times a week.

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  • The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care

    October 08, 2018 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Chagrin Falls, Ohio

    The Chagrin Falls home for patients with dementia is designed to look like a small town. The home uses nostalgic visual cues and storylines to emulate patients’ previous lives. The intent is to soothe the suffering of dementia patients and the home costs about the same as other options, which might be more disorienting.

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  • Australia set to 'eliminate' cervical cancer by 2028

    October 03, 2018 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Australia

    Vaccination and screening programs have helped Australia get close to eliminating cervical cancer. It was one of the first countries to launch a nationwide HPV vaccination effort back in 2007 and now boasts an incidence rate of seven cases of cervical cancer per 100,000 women.

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