Not All News is Bad!

Today’s good news story comes from Mineral, Virginia. Every year since 2016, Louisa County High School English teacher Kate Fletcher has laced up her running shoes and hit the pavement—not just for fitness, but for her students’ futures.

Source: She Runs So Her Students Can Go to College – And She’s Raised Over $100,000 Doing It

Inspiring.

source After years of studies and improvements, one has arrived that could potentially change the lives of those who have completely lost the ability to speak: a new algorithm… by newsfocus

Source: A new, much more efficient system gives back the voice to patients who have lost it — Hive

Absolutely fascinating.

Researchers suggest troponin tests could help detect ‘silent’ harm and predict the risk of future cardiovascular events

Source: Simple £5 blood test could help prevent thousands of heart attacks, study says

Very promising.

A trading card game consisting of real-life ojisan (middle-aged men) are going viral with kids in the city of Kawara in Fukuoka Prefecture.

Source: Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town

Fun.

A metro Detroit family is sharing gratitude after track coaches at Allen Park High School helped save a young life.

Source: ‘Very grateful’: Allen Park track coaches help save student who suffered cardiac arrest

Wow!

Tyler Sowden was on a phone call in his family’s Cleveland home Friday when he heard a scream. Sowden, 16, rushed outside and saw black smoke pouring from a nearby house. He ran to his garage, grabbed a ladder — and filled with adrenaline — raced with the roughly 100-pound ladder past about 10 houses until he reached the one on fire.

Source: Teen grabbed ladder, ran to neighbor’s burning home: ‘I’m saving the baby’

Well done!

Tamie Konzier’s simple lunch outing with her son led to a viral TikTok that raised more than $328,000 for Betty, an 81-year-old waitress struggling to retire

Source: An 81-Year-Old Waitress Said She Couldn’t Afford to Retire. Then a Stranger Raised $300,000 for Her

Very cool.

It will boost one of the area’s largest economic outputs and relieve farmers of irrigation pressures whenever the next dry period comes around

Source: Sunshine Coast Recycles Wastewater to Irrigate Farms–Instead of Dumping into a River

A great idea.

The world’s tiniest pacemaker, smaller than a grain of rice, can be injected by syringe and dissolves when no longer needed. Could this groundbreaking device, which avoids the risks of traditional pacemakers, revolutionize heart care for newborns with congenital defects? #MedicalInnovation

Source: How Will This Rice-Sized Pacemaker Change the Future of Cardiac Care?

Very impressive.

Older adults in Wales who had the jab were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia that those not vaccinated

Source: Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk

Encouraging!