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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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  • Meet the 22-Year-Old Breaking the Blood Bank Crisis in Cameroon

    January 22, 2019 |

    OZY |

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    Response Location: Cameroon

    In Cameroon, community members were facing a dire situation with a lack of efficient access to blood banks. Infiuss, an online blood bank, aims to fill this crucial gap in care by delivering bags of blood to patients in need by motorbikes.

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  • In Rwanda, zippy drones deliver quick fix, but gloss over deeper needs

    December 18, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Muhanga

    Drones complement emergency health services in poorly connected regions. Across Rwanda, where the state of infrastructure poses an ongoing structural challenge, drones are making emergency deliveries of blood possible. By partnering with a Silicon Valley tech firm, the Rwandan government has supplemented its healthcare services. With drones involved in some 20 percent of blood deliveries, the work of the Zipline pharmacy raises further questions about the short term and long-term challenges facing Rwanda’s infrastructure.

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  • Saving lives in Senegal through Hope

    June 16, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Senegal

    A digital platform, called Hope, allows medical clinics in Senegal to track the amount of blood in their blood banks in real time and reaches out to donors via SMS to encourage them to donate every few months. When a rare blood type is needed, an emergency message goes out to all users in the same geographic area, asking them if they are available for an emergency blood donation. This platform has increased the number of blood donations in Senegal and improved patients' chances of receiving life-saving transfusions.

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  • Can an Old Mill Town Become the Silicon Valley of Human Organ Manufacturing?

    December 18, 2017 |

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    Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

    Dean Kamen brought the world the Segway scooter, prosthetic arms controlled by the human brain, the first automatic drug pump (used commonly to deliver insulin to diabetic patients), and now he's built the first organ manufacturing plant. Over 120,000 Americans are currently on a waiting list to receive life-saving organ donations that often don't come in time. Kamen is aiming to change this by mass-producing organs and other tissues with technology that already exists and has been tested in labs all over the world.

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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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  • Now Blood Donors Can Get a Text When They Save Lives

    July 01, 2015 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Gothenburg

    When Swedish blood blanks were faced with a blood shortage, one hospital turned to text messaging in order to reach potential donors. Relying on the value of personal connection, the campaign texts donors when their blood has been used and also reminds individuals to regularly donate.

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  • How An Economist Helped Patients Find The Right Kidney Donors

    June 11, 2015 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    If you've got a life-threatening medical condition, your first call might not be to an economist. But Alvin Roth used a theory about matching markets to help connect kidney patients and donors.

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  • New organ donation system all about heart

    March 17, 2015 |

    Shanghai Daily |

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    Response Location: China

    Organ donation in China has become increasingly transparent in recent years, leading to an increase in the number of people agreeing to donate. Now that there is a transparent, national donation system this trend is expected to continue.

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  • Facebook Raises The Status Of Organ Donation, Study Shows

    June 18, 2013 |

    Kaiser Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Medical professionals say that there is a shortage of organs available for patients awaiting transplants. The first step towards the solution involves increasing awareness of organ donation as a viable and compassionate option. In 2012, the social media platform Facebook collaborated with surgeons to create the Organ Donor option—and, one year later, the number of organ donors increased five times.

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