Not All News is Bad!

Cortney Gensemer suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Now, she may have discovered a gene responsible for it.

Source: Ph.D. student has rare disease. Her own research discovered a potential breakthrough.

Very cool.

“We’d both gone through some tough things in life,” Kelvin Simmons said about the dog he is training as part of a diversion program.

Source: They were facing jail time. Instead, they’re training shelter dogs.

Great idea.

A team of researchers are studying the possibility of using caffeine as a therapeutic treatment to alleviate some attentional based symptoms of ADHD.

Source: Could caffeine be used to treat ADHD? | The Optimist Daily

Behold the power of coffee.

The MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics uses a new kind of druggable regenerative therapy that targets progenitor cells to create hair cells of the inner ear and reverse hearing loss.

Source: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

Pretty cool. I hope it pans out.

Bruce Tronolone is back home after recovering in the hospital from a cardiac arrest. He is encouraging everyone to learn basic CPR skills.

Source: Local man credits off-duty TFD lieutenant and hockey teammates for saving his life

CPR saves lives.

Direct support to individuals on platforms like Etsy can zoom in and help us see our contributions in real-time, helping people just like us. This Ukrainian Etsy seller gives us a look into life in Ukraine during an ongoing conflict.

Source: Meet One Ukrainian Etsy Seller Creating In The Midst of Conflict

I love how the internet has enabled these back-channel ways to support people directly.

A wounded veteran in Adams, TN, was honored with the keys to his new specially adapted smart home, courtesy of the Gary Sinise Foundation.

Source: Wounded Veteran Is Gifted A Smart Home From The Gary Sinise Foundation

Very cool.

An article published in the Journal of Urology is reporting on the first 19 humans treated with a new non-invasive method designed to break up kidney stones using sound waves. The method, dubbed burst wave lithotripsy (BWL), successfully fragmented the majority of kidney stones, promising a non-surgical way to treat patients with this common condition.

Source: Kidney stones blasted by new non-surgical sound wave device

This would be so helpful when further developed.

The 35-year-old British lawyer rowed the 4,900km in just 40 days and 19 hours. She cut a staggering nine days off the previous record.

Source: Victoria Evans is the Fastest Woman to Row the Atlantic  » Explorersweb

Wow!

The Ingenuity helicopter, an experimental robot, has vastly exceeded engineers’ expectations.

Source: Daring NASA helicopter captures stunning view of the Martian desert

So cool.