An 82-year-old veteran from Cary, N.C. traveling through O'hare Airport had no idea he was about to fall, literally, in a life-threatening accident involving his luggage and an escalator. A traveling salesman who happened to be in the right place at the right time potentially saved his life with product samples that can stop severe bleeding.
A seasoned skydiver in Northern California was attempting a complex stunt after jumping from about 8,000 feet when both of his parachutes failed and he went into a three-minute spin, hitting the ground but surviving with minor injuries.
Eight-year-old Nebraska football fan Jack Hoffman learned this week that his pediatric brain cancer is in remission. The boy captured hearts around the world after he ran a 69-yard touchdown during a spring college game that went viral.
In October 2013, Louis Munoz donated one of his kidneys to William Lynch. The organ match would not have occurred without a bit of serendipity and a big love of football: Munoz and Lynch hadn't seen each other in years – then they found themselves randomly seated next to each other with season tickets for San Diego Chargers games.
Urban warehouses, derelict buildings and high-rises are the last places you'd expect to find the seeds of a green revolution. But from Singapore to Scranton, Pennsylvania, vertical farms are promising a new, environmentally friendly way to feed the rapidly swelling populations of cities worldwide. In March, the world's largest vertical farm is set to open up shop in Scranton.
Whole Foods Market has partnered with Gotham Greens to build the nation's first commercial-scale rooftop greenhouse for growing year-round local produce atop the store in Brooklyn beginning this fall.
A growing appetite for artisan bread produced by Britain's burgeoning army of small independent bakeries has set the wheels turning again in previously defunct windmills that have stood forlorn for decades, boosting a new generation of millers trying to meet the demand for traditional flour.
Pets of the future, rejoice! Expensive and uncomfortable spay and neuter surgery could be a thing of the past— a simple shot in the haunches will do the job.
This man spent 12 hours in five below zero temperature weather, and was frozen solid when rescuers found him, but is doing great a year later.
Simon Berry is piggy-backing on Coca-Cola's distribution system to bring life-saving medicine to the places that need it most. Thanks to a vast network of local suppliers, you can get a Coke almost anywhere money changes hands. In the 1980s, Berry was an aid worker in Zambia, and when he looked at Coke's success, he saw an opportunity. Today his essential health kits for treating diarrhea are made to fit exactly inside the empty space between beverage bottles in Coke delivery crates.
A little Brazilian girl born with a cleft palate often hid her face behind a doll. But 24 hours after Operation Smile's life-changing surgery, a cameraman turned around the viewfinder, to let her see her new smile for the first time. The amazement in her eyes is unmistakable.
Looking out of the windows of Seattle Children's hospital, patients eagerly search for new names painted on steel beams by union workers constructing a 7-story building across the street. It all started a few weeks ago when one of the ironworkers painted a beam in tribute to a teenager who had died at the hospital. Then, It went viral.
The Make-a-Wish Foundation teamed up with "America's Next Top Model" photographer Nigel Barker to fulfill a shared dream of four teenagers — to become models for a day.
A medical treatment intended for cancer patients appears to be able to reverse the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS).
This stuffed animal saves a seat in the classroom for kids in the hospital for cancer treatments.
A New Zealand inventor turned a Segway scooter into a responsive hands-free wheelchair.
Organ transplants performed in the United States for the first time exceeded 30,000 in a single year, according to a report from the branch of the US Department of Health and Human Services that oversees national organ transplantation policy. "This landmark achievement is a testament to the generosity of the American public to help others […]
Not feeling well at work, his boss's suggestion to take a sick day-and see a doctor-saved his life.
This all-in-one blood test can determine if you have been passed any of the numerous inherited heart conditions.
Doctors now believe there are early warning signs that come before a sudden cardiac arrest. Knowing them could save your life– or a loved one.
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