• Patient’s own stem cells help heal heart0

    A patient's own heart cells can be used to regrow new heart tissue and help undo damage caused by a heart attack, according to early research published on Monday by scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. CNN Blogs, 2/13/2012

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  • Challenging 100 Years of Sleep Guidelines for Children0

    A new study shows that kids get about half an hour less sleep than recommended, the same deficit as a century ago, even though the recommended amounts have changed over that time. Studies show a chronic lack of sleep raises the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. The Wall Street Journal, 2/14/2012

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  • Why I Quit Facebook0

    A New York City high-school senior, age 18, explains why he quit Facebook. New York Post, 2/12/2012

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  • Life’s Frailty, and the Gestures That Go a Long Way0

    Tara Parker-Pope lovingly remembers her good friend, author Jeffrey Zaslow, who died in a car accident over the weekend. Whether he was penning his insightful novel about friendships among a group of women from Ames, Iowa; writing “The Last Lecture” with the Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, who delivered that now famous lecture after learning

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  • Thanks to You0

    The person who inspired me most in my life was my 3rd grade teacher.  Though I passed Kindergarten, First and Second grade, when I reached 3rd grade, I still did not know how to read.  I was smart enough to fake it and had gotten by unnoticed for so long, but Ms. Gerstein saw through me

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  • Cheer Up Story0

    Thanks to the Good for You site for all your inspiration.  I’m glad I found you guys, and will certainly pass on this site to anyone who will listen. Here is my funny cheer up story: I was watching my 5 year old niece last week and she asked me asked me, “Why do they

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