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  • Charity's vision for a blind-free Indonesia

    June 24, 2017 |

    AzerNews |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Sumatra

    A New Vision is a Singapore-based non-profit that provides free cataract surgery to impoverished people in Indonesia. Indonesia has one of the highest rates of blindness in the world, and 50 percent of these cases are due to cataracts, which can be reversed with a simple surgical procedure. A New Vision sets up free clinics in Indonesian villages and performs cataract surgery on locals and sends local health care providers to Nepal to be trained to perform these surgeries themselves and provide post-op care.

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  • Erasing Gang Memories, One Laser Prick At A Time

    May 04, 2017 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Many immigrants come into the United States with visual representation of former gang involvement, preventing them from shedding their past mistakes. A group in Northern Virginia is helping these immigrants make life changes and prevent gang violence in their area.

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  • Overcoming ancient taboos, organ donors give gift of life

    August 12, 2016 |

    Shanghai Daily |

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    Response Location: China, Shanghai

    With the help of public awareness campaigns and modern technology, hospitals in Shanghai are helping to combat cultural taboos and successfully increase the number of voluntary organ donations in the country.

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  • Doctors Get Creative To Soothe Tech-Savvy Kids Before Surgery

    June 29, 2016 |

    NPR |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Palo Alto, California

    Undergoing surgery is a stress-inducing prospect for anyone, but children are especially vulnerable to anxiety prior to operations. To avoid using risky anti-anxiety medications on young patients, two anesthesiologists at the Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford have developed creative techniques to distract children from their forthcoming surgeries. They use toys and a unique low-cost video projection system called BERT-Bedside Entertainment Theater.

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  • Syria's War on Doctors

    June 27, 2016 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: Syria, Aleppo

    In Syria, medical personnel are at risk of death as hospitals are frequent targets of bombing. With few medical specialists treating an assortment of injuries and diseases under the most dangerous circumstances, doctors began an underground network. This network installs cameras in hospital rooms to send pictures over mobile media to doctors abroad, doctors working on-site change their names, and animal waste powers the operations.

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  • Music therapists, once marginalized, come into the mainstream at children's hospitals

    June 27, 2016 |

    STAT |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Hospitals can be stressful places for children and their families, but music therapy can help ease some of that stress. At Boston Children's Hospital, music therapists help children complete tasks such as using the restroom or having their blood drawn, and sometimes they even help families say goodbye to their children. Music therapy has been shown to help premature babies develop, normalize blood pressure and heart rate, and improve motor control.

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  • Surgery without scalpels

    June 14, 2016 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    People suffering from tremors often have to dramatically alter their lifestyles to accommodate the involuntary muscle movements, but Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center Hospital are piloting a new approach that uses non-invasive surgery to remedy essential tremors. Although it's only been used on a small scale so far, the doctors are finding success with the focused ultrasound treatment.

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  • Finding Organ Donors Concealed in Plain Sight

    May 17, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Organ donation waiting lists can often hold wait times of months or even years. Thousands of lives could be saved with better ways to reach to the millions of Americans willing to donate an organ.

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  • Eradicating hepatitis C is within reach

    May 16, 2016 |

    El Paso Times |

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    Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

    Hepatitis C is a deadly disease that has yet to be eradicated in the United States (and worldwide). Organizations in El Paso and across the country are working to get people tested and treated for the virus.

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  • Using Tweets and Posts to Speed Up Organ Donation

    May 10, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A grateful recipient of a new heart has inspired a drive to vastly enlarge the pool of prospective organ donors.

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