Good News Notes: “Mother’s Day is just a few hours away and while many will spend the day celebrating their moms and other motherly figures. One local mom is making a change by channeling her grief into a nonprofit geared to helping those struggling with substance abuse after losing her eldest son. Lisa Gray is…
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Drone images give hope for return of kelp on U.S. West coast
Good News Notes: “Tranquil images of the Pacific Ocean taken by a drone show that California’s kelp forests may be making a comeback after years of depletion, bringing good news in the fight against climate change. Kelp, which reduces global warming by soaking up carbon dioxide from the air via photosynthesis, has died off dramatically…
A Paralyzed Man’s Brain Waves Converted to Speech in a World-First Breakthrough
Good News Notes: “In a world first, US researchers have developed a neuroprosthetic device that successfully translated the brain waves of a paralyzed man into complete sentences, according to a scientific paper published Thursday. “This is an important technological milestone for a person who cannot communicate naturally,” said David Moses, a postdoctoral engineer at the University…
Cancer-detecting blood test accurate enough to be used as early screening tool
Good News Notes: “Results from a study of a blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer suggest that it is accurate enough to be used as a screening tool among people at higher risk of the disease, including those who are not symptomatic. In a paper published in the leading cancer journal…
He Lost Nearly Everything To Addiction. Then An Arrest Changed His Life
Good News Notes: “Heroin started rewiring and taking control of Will’s brain in the early 2000s, as he turned 40. “Back then, if you used drugs people didn’t want anything to do with you,” Will recalls. “People gave up on me.” Will lost almost everything: jobs, his driver’s license, his car, his marriage and his…
How the Gates Foundation and Seattle nonprofit PATH are helping get oxygen to India
Good News Notes: “ The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has teamed with two Chicago financial groups to channel $5.5 million into efforts by Seattle-based nonprofit PATH to bring more oxygen to COVID-19 patients in India. “Lack of access to medical oxygen is one of the defining health challenges of our age,” said Chris Elias,…
The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees
Good News Notes: “In early 2016, Giovanni Melcarne, an agronomist and the owner of an extra virgin olive oil farm in Gagliano del Capo, walked through the southern Italian countryside of Puglia. He was with a fellow olive-oil farmer who had called and told him there was something he had to see. The two approached a…
Fort Worth 5th Grader Starts ‘Race to Kindness’
Good News Notes: “‘This disease impacts so many people,’ Jean said of COVID-19. ‘Many people have lost their jobs and are being put out on the streets… and these are people that look like me that don’t have the resources and don’t have these privileges, and I know I can help.’ Jean started‘Race to Kindness’to…
Couple Met Battling Same Cancer, Show They’re Dating in Twitter Trend
Good News Notes: “A couple who met while undergoing treatment for the same type of cancer have a become viral sensation after sharing their heartwarming story as part of Twitter’s recent ‘how it started/how it’s going‘ trend. Molly Gorczyca and Ryan Smith tell PEOPLE they never expected to receive such an overwhelmingly positive response to Gorczyca’s Oct. 12…
Survivor raises awareness of ovarian cancer
Good News Notes: “A Wareham woman is working to raise awareness of ovarian cancer this month. Susan Grebber is herself a survivor of ovarian cancer, a disease she said nearly killed her. “I was lucky to survive it, I really was,”he said. Grebber was diagnosed with ovarian cancer after at least one doctor confused her…