Two women losing their sight to progressive forms of blindness may have regained some vision while participating in an experiment testing a treatment made from human embryonic stem cells, the first time researchers directly helped patients with these types of stem cells.
A year ago, when chemotherapy stopped working against his leukemia and he had nothing to lose, William Ludwig signed up to be the first patient treated in a bold experiment. Doctors removed a billion of his T-cells and re-engineered them before reinsertion. A few weeks later, his leukemia was gone.
Comedian Kevin Hart recalls the moment when he finally followed his mother's advice, and it paid off-big time-both for his wallet and his heart.
After Nerissa Cannon, a disabled rock climber, joined an group called No Barriers, she began pushing the boundaries of what she could do, traveling 2,300 miles in an RV.
This photo of an enchanted little girl staring at an Ulta beauty advertisement shows just how much representation can matter for differently-abled kids.
Riley Rankin came up with a DIY anniversary gift for his girlfriend to relieve her pain-an empty pill bottle with a love prescription inside each capsule.
If this Portland cyclist had not spotted the old man against the desert landscape, the 73-year-old would never have survived.
This baseball MVP went above and beyond the call of duty to grant the wish of an ailing fan—and he succeeded in granting that wish three different times.
This California town may be one of the nicest places in America after a little girl's wish helped spark a citywide movement to "Make Kindness Contagious".
The owner of a fast food restaurant in Austin, Texas shocked his 50 employees by paying their full salaries during a five-month period when the business shut down.
A man, angry at a driver who crashed into him, ended up asking him on a European hike after he learned that the driver had suffered a seizure at the wheel
An astonishing 580 people got their freedom back, thanks to a Connecticut businessman's passion and determination to repair and donate motorized wheelchairs.
A UK diver who wanted to show that you don't need to leave the UK to see amazing marine wildlife, had an incredible encounter with a huge barrel jellyfish.
A family who lost everything in a house fire has been humbled by their 10-year-old neighbor who raised a surprising about of money for them with lemonade.
The Home Depot Co-founder Bernie Marcus has pledged to give most of his wealth to charity—hopefully before the 90-year-old dies.
When a responsible party-goer had already had too many drinks to bring a baby bird to a rescue center, he simply called an Uber for the feathery passenger.
After being evicted from her home, the woman had been left stranded on a sidewalk with her sick dog and 10 boxes of belongings in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida.
Adam Braun was on a fast track toward a lucrative corporate career, but it was a backpacking trip as a teenager in India when he met a little boy begging on the streets, that changed his stars. That moment became the spark for Pencils of Promise, an organization founded by Braun that builds schools in some of the world's poorest countries
Every day rain or shine, this 70-year-old grandma has doled out specialized bird seed to a flock of swans residing at an English pond.
A compassionate cop managed to stop a suicidal man from jumping off of a bridge in Arizona after he offered to give the man a hug.
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