Not All News is Bad!

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!

Inside a green orb planted in the German countryside is a high-tech aid to prevent wildfires that have grown more common and destructive with rising global temperatures.

Source: AI-powered drones track down fires in German forests

Very cool concept.

Memory and Aging Program Director Dr. Stephen Salloway, a study co-author, calls the findings a “game changer” in Alzheimer’s research.

Source: New Study: Blood Test Could Predict Alzheimer’s 16 Years Before Symptoms Appear

Impressive.