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Vitamin Angels Deliver Nutritional Shakes in Earthquake Relief
Shaklee Corporation, the number one natural nutrition company in the U.S., today announced the donation of nearly $600,000 worth of high-protein nutrition drinks — enough...
Warren Buffett Gives Away His Fortune
Warren Buffett, the world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July...
Dog’s Quick Dialing Saves Owner
A service Beagle named Belle is an amazing animal that has been trained to call for help if Kevin Weaver's diabetes spirals out of...
Girl Becomes Superhero For a Day
Most days, six-year-old Aubrey Matthews spends her energy fighting a brain tumor growing behind her eyes. But the first-grader managed to foil crimes...
Less Sex, Smoking and Alcohol for Today’s Teens
Teenagers today are drinking less, smoking less and having less sex than their peers did 15 years ago, according to a national study released...
Idle Computers Get To Work on Cancer Cure
More than 60,000 people are donating idle computer power to a project that is ultimately trying to find cures for diseases like cancer and...
Tumors Stalled in Women with Advanced Breast Cancer
A new drug stalls the growth of tumors in women with advanced breast cancer. Testing was stopped after noting the drug's effectiveness, so that...
UK Paper Donates Revenue from Bono/AIDS Edition to Africa Fight
Half of all revenues from yesterday's issue of the UK paper, the Independent, will go towards the fight against AIDS in Africa.
The May 16...
Carter Center Eradicates Guinea Worm in Africa
When former US President Jimmy Carter saw the suffering in the developing world caused by a little known disease called Guinea worm, he updated...
UN Polio Campaign Underway in Afghanistan to Safeguard Two Million Children
More than two million Afghan children are currently being immunized in a United Nations-backed three-day polio eradication drive following a sixth reported case of...
Polio Vaccines in Somalia
The World Health Organization has launched a five-day polio immunization campaign in Somalia to vaccinate nearly one and a half million children under...
Optimism is Healthy
A 2006 Dutch study of elderly men found a lower risk for cardiovascular death for those identified as optimistic.
The research found optimism to be...
Why Good News? Counting the Benefits
Good news is often considered too soft and unimportant to be valuable in one’s real life. The truth is, good news can create concrete,...
Press Clips and Publicity
CBS Evening News Katie Couric's Notebook (Video) "The Good News Network is devoted to all the good news that's fit to print... When...
Comeback News: Seals, Humpbacks, and Urchins Increasing
Steller sea lions in Alaska are making a comeback. An aerial survey of the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands spotted more than 19,000...
Thousands Raised for Cancer Research by 8 Year-Old Girl Honoring Dad
Why did Georgetown University rename its cancer research lab in honor a donation of just $5,000? Because the money was raised by a nine...
Whooping It Up! Cranes Return to the East
For the first time in more than a century, whooping cranes will migrate across the skies of eastern North America this fall.
It all started...
Woman Donates Part of her Liver to a Child She Didn’t Even Know
While the season of giving flourished in department stores, the true meaning of the word was demonstrated in a hospital in North Carolina. A...
Cancer and Christmas Both Begin with C
We can even use holidays to enrich the soul and strengthen it for harder times, so that when those times come, as they will...
A “Point of Light” in Brazil’s Jungle; a Nurse is Honored for Her Work
Doctors Without Borders not only won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, but Kathleen Mahoney, one of its volunteers, a graduate nursing student at the...