KarunaNews Story

Difficult developments aren’t the full story of 2024. Chad became the 51st country to eliminate sleeping sickness. The US Food and Drug Administration approved drugs with the potential to transform lives, including a therapy which uses patients’ own cells to attack skin cancer. The FDA also approved a new drug for schizophrenia that appears to avoid side effects. Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky became some of the most decorated Olympians in history, while Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set a sixth new world record. The world’s largest plant for pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere opened in Iceland. Norway became the first country to have more electric than gas-powered vehicles, while one Japanese island began using a new generation of batteries to help stockpile clean electricity.