Good news on global health, climate change
The free section of this Fix the News includes an audio documentary about the malaria vaccine. Fix the News says, “We are very proud — we poured a lot of love into this, it’s our first ever big piece of original reporting.”
Also in the free section is a compilation of good news about climate change, including a new analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, a British non-profit. In the decade since the Paris Agreement was signed, global growth in carbon emissions compared to the previous decade has slowed to 0.32 percent a year, compared to 1.70 percent a year in the decade before Paris, ECIU says.
Among the items in Fix the News’ section requiring a subscription:
— In “one of the most important public health trends of this century” global tobacco smoking rates have dropped from one in three adults to one in five, Fix the News says, citing the World Health Organization.
— Researchers in Oregon have created human eggs from skin cells, potentially transforming IVF treatment. “If scientists can perfect the process it would provide genetically related eggs for women who are infertile because of older age, illness or medical treatment. The same procedure could be used to make eggs for same-sex male couples,” says The Guardian.
— A team led by University College London researchers has reversed Alzheimer’s disease in mice using nanoparticles that help the brain clear away toxic amyloid proteins naturally, according to a study in the journal Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy.
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