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  • Simple Treatment for Asthma Unfolds

    Created: 05/13/09 by Alyssa D

    Like magic, a single sheet of paper can become an intricate bird, a fearsome dragon, or a delicate flower, through the ancient art of origami. It can even become a solution to one of the world's most pressing pediatric health challenges: asthma.

  • Better Medicine

    Created: 04/17/09 by Anonymous

    Medical centers are always looking for new ways to deliver better, more affordable care. The latest studies are showing that what goes on just outside the medical exam room can make the biggest difference.  If patients can learn to take on some of the management of their own health, their outcomes are better and costs are lower.

  • Solutions for Rural Development

    Created: 10/20/09 by Alison Hockenberry

    The Changemakers community has big ideas for supporting positive rural development around the globe. From farming “affinity groups” in India to technologically connected health care providers in remote corners of the United States, solutions abound. See some of the best initiatives here

     

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  • WE CARE Solar: A Suitcase-Size Solution to Reducing Maternal Mortality

    Created: 06/18/10 by Carol Erickson

    Rather than dying of rare diseases, “pregnant women In hospitals around the world are dying of things we already know how to treat," said obstetrician Dr. Laura Stachel.

    “I can’t go on with my life and not work on this. I had no idea how bad it was, and many others didn’t know either. I feel it is my job to become the voice for these women, because this kind of situation shouldn’t be allowed.”

     
    I realized that all my years of clinical experience were useless in a situation where there was no light to perform a delivery or surgery, and no phone system to call a skilled doctor.

  • Amanda Phillips is a Changemaker

    Created: 03/17/10 by andrea boston

    Amanda Phillips (below) was 14 weeks pregnant with her second child when she suffered a miscarriage while living and working in a small village in India. On a rainy night, Phillips had to be carried on a stretcher to the nearest health clinic, located three hours away, only to find that the doctor was asleep, the medical instruments were not sterilized, and no one took her vital signs.

  • How to Nudge

    Created: 08/25/09 by Anonymous

    Nudging is a slippery business. Here’s a primer to help get you started with your design for better health decisions.

    Designing settings and scenarios in which people make healthy choices requires presenting those choices in a way that takes the all-too-human side of decision making into account. People need (and want) choices, but they also need (and want) help—a nudge—when they’re not sure what to do.

  • Be a Nudge! Save a Life

    Created: 04/17/09 by Anonymous

    It's reassuring to know when you get on a plane, that the pilot has an emergency checklist and a co-pilot backing him up. It should also be reassuring to know that ICU doctors may soon be following their lead.

    Every year, some 200,000 patients contract infections during their stay in intensive care. Most of these are treatable with expensive antibiotics and a longer hospital stay. In some cases, these infections can be fatal.

  • A Friend Indeed: Living a Full Life with a Network of Support

    Created: 05/29/09 by Anonymous

    We all rely on our friends to get us through tough times and to help us celebrate the good, but for many disabled men and women, this network of support isn't always easy to build. But with a little help identifying social connections and helping to maintain them, once isolated individuals can become fuller members of the community.

  • Sleep Caps and Ginger Tea: Practical Resources for Chemotherapy Patients

    Created: 06/07/10 by Carol Erickson

    Anne Marie Paolucci is the third generation of her family to be diagnosed with breast cancer, and she understands exactly what chemotherapy patients need to deal with experience and its side effects. “That knowledge cost me a lot to get," she notes, adding that she founded Chemo Comfort, a volunteer-run organization that provides Chemo Comfort Kits to meet those needs.

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  • Sleep Caps and Ginger Tea: Practical Resources for Chemotherapy Patients

    Created: 06/07/10 by Carol Erickson

    Anne Marie Paolucci is the third generation of her family to be diagnosed with breast cancer, and she understands exactly what chemotherapy patients need to deal with experience and its side effects. “That knowledge cost me a lot to get," she notes, adding that she founded Chemo Comfort, a volunteer-run organization that provides Chemo Comfort Kits to meet those needs.