Today’s uplifting news:

1. A new robotic diagnostic tool can detect lung cancer at much earlier stages than conventional tools.

2. A new artificial intelligence tool is helping nurses decide which patients need to be woken up at night to have their vital signs checked and which should be left to sleep without interruption.

3. The 3-month old panda at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo has been named after a public vote.

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S1 E20     Tuesday, November 24, 2020

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Today’s stories cover advances in health technologies.

Headline 1

A new robotic diagnostic tool can detect lung cancer at much earlier stages than conventional tools.

Related links:

Interesting Engineering – ‘Game changing’ robotic technology goes mainstream, diagnoses lung cancer

Headline 2

A new artificial intelligence tool is helping nurses decide which patients need to be woken up at night to have their vital signs checked and which should be left to sleep without interruption.

Related links:

Digital Medicine – Let sleeping patients lie, avoiding unnecessary overnight vitals monitoring using a clinically based deep-learning model

Interesting Engineering – New AI tool cuts patient vital sign check-ups, lets them sleep, saves lives

Daily Fluff

The 3-month old panda at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo has been named after a public vote.

Related link:

Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute – His name is Xiao Qi Ji

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Giant Panda Cam

Today’s uplifting news:

1. In an act of kindness, a FedEx delivery driver buys a new basketball and hoop for a child on her route.

2. After his security system warns that there’s an intruder in his driveway every evening, a Utah man makes a chalk racetrack for the young boy who keeps setting the security camera off during his evening bike rides.

3. Panda, a lost cat from Washington state, turned up in Alaska, more than 2,000 miles from home.

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S1 E19     Monday, November 23, 2020

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Today’s stories cover kindness!

Headline 1

In an act of kindness, a FedEx delivery driver buys a new basketball and hoop for a child on her route.

Related links:

CBS News – FedEx driver surprises boy with new basketball hoop: “There are very much still good people in the world”

Headline 2

After his security system warns that there’s an intruder in his driveway every evening, a Utah man makes a chalk racetrack for the young boy who keeps setting the security camera off during his evening bike rides.

Related links:

CanyonChasers YouTube channel

CBS News – Man draws out racetrack on driveway for 4-year-old neighbor to enjoy on bike

Interesting Engineering – Neighbor takes action after kid keeps riding his bicycle in his driveway

Daily Fluff

Panda, a lost cat from Washington state, turned up in Alaska, more than 2,000 miles from home.

Related link:

Today – Lost cat turns up thousands of miles away in Alaska. Here’s how he got home

Our humanitarian of the week is Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, a doctor and football player who is taking the season off from the NFL to help combat COVID-19.

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S1 E 18     Friday, November 20, 2020

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Headline

Our humanitarian of the week is Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, a doctor and football player who is taking the season off from the NFL to help combat COVID-19.

Related links:

CNN – The first practicing medical doctor to play in the NFL opts out of the 2020 season

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif on Twitter

Sports Illustrated – A lineman’s choice: To defend a Super Bowl, or to fight a pandemic