The company is releasing three types of maps meant to help public health organizations stay ahead of disease outbreaks and guide disaster response: population density maps, movement maps and network coverage maps.
Using a soon-to-be launched blood donation request feature, qualified healthcare organizations like hospitals and blood banks will be able to put the call out to Facebook users in the U.S. who list themselves as donors.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
People often wonder when you send charitable donations to organizations, where does the money actually go? Well, unfortunately, money sent to help those in need doesn’t exactly arrive like we’d expect. ProPublica and NPR worked together to figure out where money sent to the American Red Cross for hurricane Sandy actually went. We’re talking about […]