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After ten years working in television news in Washington, DC, Geri quit the business to start a family and in 1997 founded GoodNewsNetwork.org, which quickly became the #1 site on Google for "good news". For more than 20 years, GNN.org has delivered positive news and inspiring stories from around the world as an antidote to the barrage of negativity in mainstream media. Featured on CBS News, BBC, Rolling Stone magazine, and NPR's All Things Considered, Geri was dubbed “The Good News Guru” by the Washington Post. From Health news to Heroes, World news to Animal rescues—and our new ‘Good Talks’ page, which aggregates the best motivational podcasts, GNN provides the ultimate grab bag of GOOD, with its daily dose of optimism and hope.
‘Man With The Golden Arm’ Is Finally Retiring After Saving The Lives Of Over 2 Million Babies
One man, who was willing to share his blood, has saved the lives of more than 2.4 million babies, thanks to a rare antibody doctors discovered inside his body.
In the 1960s, thousands of newborns in Australia died because they were born with rhesus disease — a condition where the mother’s blood actually attacks the blood in the baby she’s carrying.
It was discovered that Harrison’s blood carried an antibody that could fully prevent the disease and scientists worked with him to create an injectable drug called Anti-D — which in turn saved his own grandson’s life.
Researchers never would have made the discovery if Harrison hadn’t started donating blood generously when he was 18 years old, after donors saved his young life during lung surgery.
