Not All News is Bad!

Eileen Reilly and a friend started the Women’s Lunch Place day shelter in Back Bay more than 40 years ago. After a long career, she came back to the shelter as a psychiatrist to provide mental health care to women who are unhoused.

Source: She founded a Boston day shelter for women, then became a doctor. Decades later, she’s back to help

Inspirational.

The rancher traced the boy’s steps and discovered that Buford, an Anatolian Pyrenees who normally patrols his land and wards off coyotes, had escorted the 2-year-old for at least a mile.

Source: Missing toddler who walked 7 miles alone through Arizona wilderness led to safety by rancher’s dog

Good dog!

It is the fourth calf born to the southern resident orcas since December. Two of the four have died already.

Source: Another baby orca spotted with Northwest’s endangered J Pod

We appreciate our Orcas around here.

A Philadelphia police officer sets his own fears aside and put his heroism front and center to save a young boy in danger.

Source: Philadelphia police officer sets aside fear of heights to rescue child from a roof

Yikes!

Researchers behind test using biomarkers say it could ‘revolutionise’ early diagnosis of disease

Source: Blood test could detect Parkinson’s disease before symptoms emerge

Encouraging.

A flexible, semi-autonomous robot could potentially locate disaster victims trapped under rubble and deliver medication within the human body.

Source: Not Science Fiction: This Tiny Robot Crawls Through Your Body To Deliver Medicine

This just seems so cool.

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.