Psychologists are discovering why gratitude is so good for you, learning in many experiments that it is one of humanity's most powerful emotions. It makes you happier and can change your attitude about life, like an emotional reset button. Especially in hard times, like these.
A non-profit fitness center in Massachusetts providing free gym memberships to low-income and homeless women was nearly forced to shut its doors recently, until an anonymous donor came forward and gave money enough to keep the center open for the summer.
Judges of the Eye Remember photography contest in Canada had no idea Tara Miller had any vision problem whatsoever, let alone having only 10 percent vision in one eye. The blind commercial photographer won the contest with her stunning landscape entitled, Fortuitous Twilight.
Taisia Sidorova, 21, from St Petersburg, was given the last rites after an accident that left half her skull smashed and the damaged left hemisphere of her brain removed. But slowly - with the love and support of her family - she came around, and the artistic right side of her brain began compensating for lack on the left. Even though she'd never been interested in drawing before, she began to display remarkable natural talent.
A 15-year-old girl from North England has been fighting cancer for four years and now strangers around the world are fighting to help her cross off as many items as possible from her 'bucket list'. To stay in a caravan. To swim with sharks. To go to Kenya. To go to Cadbury World eating lots of chocolate.
Both daughters are alive today because the parents had faith that a new baby would turn out to be an unlikely organ match and able to donate bone marrow to her older sister, saving her from leukemia.
After a Good News Network story about the first rural diabetes center in the US, which educates and cares for children free of charge in Kansas, a West Virginia children's hospital received a gift of one million dollars to replicate the project there. Both donors are grandfathers whose grandsons have diabetes.
Two decades ago, a wedding photographer battled breast cancer. Now, she is giving back by making wedding dreams come true for couples like Melissa and Jeff whose budding romance was struck early by the same harsh diagnosis. A dream $30,000 wedding was donated with the help of 30 different Colorado vendors.
Leftover soap and shampoo from your hotel's bathroom is being recycled to help Clean the World. The Global Soap Project, along with Clean The World, has launched programs to collect and recycle partially-used toiletries from hotels across the United States.
Parents can't always be there to hold their babies who are in the hospital for an extended period, but that's where a group of core volunteers step in.
In Nairobi, the Africa Yoga Project is training HIV+, poor, and disabled citizens to be yoga instructors, creating jobs and changing lives. Most of the 3,000 weekly students are aged 16-30, living on about $2 a day, and many live in Nairobi slums with HIV/AIDS.
This week, a new rule went into effect for hospitals across the nation to ease the longtime burden on unmarried or gay partners who, until now, could be prohibited from visiting loved ones who may lie sick and dying without a hand to hold. The rule ensures that hospitals choosing to participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs must respect the rights of patients to designate visitors.
Last August, Renee Varela's 18-year-old son was killed by a drunk driver and she donated his heart to a father who needed a transplant. Recently Varela held a stethoscope to his chest and heard her son's heart beating. Tragedy brought the two families together -- an extended family now bound by an act of grace.
The civilians behind the National Kidney Registry website have organized transplants for record numbers of kidney patients over the last three years. Today, the momentum will continue with the largest kidney chain to date, a swap that is expected to save 28 lives, thanks to strangers paying it forward.
People with prostate cancer have been offered new hope after researchers at University of Pennsylvania discovered a molecule that appears to target the tumours. The researchers found that the "monoclonal" antibody seems to act against the disease in both its early and advanced stages.
A Brooklyn woman blinded two years ago by a rare disease was thrilled by the Christmas gift of a lifetime - the sight of her two daughters' beaming faces.
Senior doctors and health professionals from around the world say major health improvements would result if world leaders tackle climate change. They've formed the International Climate and Health Council to present their case for going green.
Since there are no current treatments for vegetative patients, this medicinal breakthrough has researchers excited for future trials.
A young woman who had a serious eating disorder but reformed her life through yoga and is now helping others, received a series of four life-changing tips during her shift as a waitress. A YouTube channel decided to Prank it Forward and give the Los Angeles worker the best shift ever.
Gift certificate, layaway plan or voucher. Call it what you want, but an innovative organ donation program has started to spread across the United States.
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