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Facebook Reunion Leads to Kidney Donation (Video)
Two grade-school friends who reconnected thanks to the social networking site, Facebook, after more than a decade are becoming more than bosom buddies. One...
Twin Sisters Receive Kidneys From Same Donor
"A Chicago-area trauma victim gives gift of life to 10-year-old girls -- one kidney for each of the twins." (Today Show w/ video)...
Vacuum Cleaner Salesman Donates Kidney to Would-Be Customer
A traveling salesman who tried to sell a Kirby vacuum to a family in Twin Falls, Idaho, ended up, instead, donating his kidney. He...
Couples Trade in Historic Kidney Swap
"Two married couples give EACH OTHER a kidney in Britain's first transplant between strangers" (BBC) Thanks, Andrew!
Kidney Donation to Hubby Ends Divorce Plans
A couple on the verge of divorce remain married after 17 years after the wife offered to donate her kidney to her estranged husband...
Ex-Teammate Donates Kidney to Dallas Cowboy
Two NFL football players became the first U.S. professional athletes involved in an organ donation between teammates. Ron Springs calls it "brotherly love" when...
Pastor Answers Prayer by Donating his Kidney
Harold Bricker's rare O-positive blood type made an organ donation nearly impossible. Yet, when he finally released his anxiety about waiting with 60,000 other...
Four Exchange Kidneys In Remarkable Swap
A new program allows healthy family members to donate their kidneys to strangers in exchange for receiving an organ for their loved one. In...
Donated Kidney Forever Bonds Former Neighbors
InsideBayArea.com and its affiliated newspapers featured these opening lines yesterday that 'said it all' with elegant prose: It's tough to...
Teacher to Donate Kidney to 10-Year-Old Student
Cbs2Chicago.com features the inspiring story of fourth grade teacher Patricia Donohue and her decision to donate a kidney to her 10-year-old student, Brandon Shafer.
Brandon's...
100,000 Salmon Spill Off a Truck in Oregon–and Most Land in a Creek and Survive
Disaster struck a truck transporting 102,000 young salmon to a hatchery in Oregon when it overturned on the road and the giant fish tank...
Destructive Gold Miners Work Overtime to Restore Thousands of Acres of Amazon Rainforest
In the Madre de Dios region of southern Peru, small, artisanal gold mines and the miners that work them have become a source of...
Good News in History, March 9
50 years ago today, Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese infantryman holdout finally surrendered 29 years after the end of World War II. Operating out of...
Good News in History, March 4
1,172 years ago today, a Duke named Trpimir I wrote in a charter in the Latin language that he was Duke of the Croats...
Buck Institute Scientists Discover a Potential Way to Repair Synapses Damaged in Alzheimer’s Disease
A new study proposes a strategy for reversing the memory problems that accompany Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, exploring an alternative to the laser-focused...
Good News in History, December 23
102 years ago today, Visva-Bharati University was founded in West Bengal by the Indian poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore. The brilliant Nobel Prize-winning humanist...
Your Weekly Horoscope: A ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...
Starbucks Workers Raise Over $40K for Beloved Barista After Her Car Was Burglarized
Recently, hordes of West Virginia college kids who "couldn't afford a cup of coffee" shelled out five dollars to help a motherly Starbucks barista...
Good News in History, September 11
On this day across history, imperial aggression was resisted or rolled back by indigenous peoples in both the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest (9)...
Cat Missing for Five Weeks Found Trapped Beneath Neighbor’s Floorboards After They Hear Meowing
A “miracle” cat missing for five weeks was found still alive underneath a neighbor’s floorboards.
The Russian blue's overjoyed owners believe he narrowly survived by...