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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the lifesaving drug Narcan for over-the-counter use without a prescription for the first time. The nasal spray containing 4 milligrams of naloxone hydrochloride can rapidly reverse the effects of opioid overdose and is the standard treatment in such emergencies. The FDA action paves the way for the life-saving doses to be sold directly to consumers in places like drug stores, convenience stores, grocery stores and gas stations, as well as online. The timeline for availability and price will be determined by the American manufacturer, Emergent BioSolutions, but the FDA says the transition…

Credit – Lydia Mailloux Plants are well-established partners that when brought indoors can help alleviate stress, and purify the air, and are well worth the constant watering. However, a new study from Australia found their beneficial properties may not yet be fully established, since it could be that our leafy brethren have the power to remove viruses that cause cold and flu from the air. At the moment the authors are calling it a proof of concept, and shouldn’t be taken as a confirmation of causation, but their findings are pretty compelling. When absorbing sunlight, plants produce a biochemical that…

Kennedy News / Hannah Pateman via SWNS When a London family got together to celebrate a dad’s 70th birthday with a family portrait, a precious pooch was determined not to be left out. Despite being outside a sliding glass door, she leaped into the air the moment the shutter opened, enshrining her antics for all time in one of the best photobombs you’ll ever see. Attending her father’s birthday, Tamsin Cowman brought along her cockapoo Bo. She let her out into the garden to play while the family gathered in the living room to take photos of grandfather Michael Ng…

Roselle flowers – RMIT University An unassuming plant and the antioxidants it contains, could be a legitimate health food weight loss supplement, after a landmark trial found it decreased fat absorption. When human fat cells were treated with polyphenols contained in the flower, they inhabited the production of the chief enzyme that converts dietary fat into stored fat in our cells. One of the co-authors, a food scientist and former farmer from Nepal, believes that it could replace many of the side-effect-inducing pharmaceutical substances taken to genesis fat loss in the Australian public. There’s nothing wrong with A: trying to…

Francis Zuber – SWNS A hero skier saved the life of a snowboarder completely buried head-first in a massive snow drift. Francis Zuber was maneuvering around the tops of trees in deep powder on Mt. Baker, in northwestern Washington state, probably without any indication he might end up in the right place at the right time to be a hero. It was a one-in-a-million chance that Zuber spotted him at all. He had only just fallen off his own skis in the bumpy ‘tree well’ just a few feet away from a trapped snowboarder. When he spotted the man’s snowboard…

credit WJZ 13 Down in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the sous chef of a beloved restaurant, Philips Seafood, replaced his apron for a cape as he cooked up a heroic rescue of a drowning motorist. An unidentified man drove straight into the frigid and filthy mid-March harbor water after suffering what reports say was a mental health crisis. Seeing this, sous chef Tom Walsh jumped in to rescue him. “I hope he’s OK,” said witness Cher Briscoe. “But the man that saved him—I hope he gets a reward and some money.” Once in the water, Walsh proved himself to be immensely…

This story was originally published by Next City, a nonprofit news organization covering solutions for just and equitable cities. What happens when old buildings have reached the end of their life, either their useful life in terms of safety or their desirable life in terms of modern living? For the hundreds of thousands of homes that meet their end in the U.S. each year, the answer is demolition. More than 600 million tons of debris from the construction and demolition industry (known as C&D for short) was generated in the United States in 2018 alone. The demolition portion itself is responsible for more than…

The London Lonely Girls Club – Courtesy of Holly Cooke A newcomer to big city life started a Facebook group to make new friends and it grew to 20,000 people in just a few years. The London Lonely Girls Club was founded by 26-year-old Holly Cooke, who arrived from Stoke-on-Trent, a big city in itself, but provincial compared to London. From 2018 to 2022, it attracted 10,000 young women who, like Cooke, found it hard to make new friends. Just in 2022, it grew to 31,000, and now there are 5 or 6 members organizing fun events like brunches, game…

Madhav Gajula, left, a first-year student in the Mellon College of Science, and Nikolai Stefanov, the mission operations lead for Iris, work during a mission simulation – Released, Carnegie Mellon University A crack team of university students is just a month away from launching the first privately-made lunar rover onto the Moon’s surface. Slated for May the Fourth, the unofficial holiday of the Star Wars franchise, the rover weighs just 2 kilograms, and the mission objectives include demonstrating its technology and snapping scientifically-relevant images. Called Iris, the rover designed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Pittsburgh campus will be carried to the…

Lexi Donelson prom dress conversion – SWNS An Oklahoma mom took a scissors to her old prom dress so that her little girl could wear it to her ‘daddy-daughter’ dance—and the results were fantastic. Lexi Donelson was struggling to find the perfect, yet affordable, dress for 5-year-old daughter Sterling when she suddenly remembered she still had her own prom dress. The 26-year-old mother-of-three had donned the dress eleven years ago when she joined her high school sweetheart, Dewey, for their prom. The couple had begun dating a couple of months before, after being schoolmates since they were 10—and four years…