Good news: The miracle drug eradicating rectal cancer and universal charger for electronics

Welcome to another round of the good news roundup, our weekly selection of news to send you off to the weekend with a smile.

Here are this week’s positive news stories:

Here are this week’s positive news stories:

1. A miracle drug trial that eradicated cancer in every patient.

A major breakthrough in cancer treatment could be just around the corner, after more than a dozen US rectal cancer patients saw their tumours vanish after taking a new drug.

The patients were part of a small clinical trial led by researchers from New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, who gave them an experimental drug called dostarlimab.

Participants received a dose of dostarlimab every three weeks for six months, and the idea was they would also need to undergo standard treatments of chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery following the immunotherapy treatment.

But to their surprise, researchers found that in every single case, the cancer was wiped out with the experimental treatment alone.

The trial has been hailed as a first in cancer treatment.

One of the paper’s authors, Dr Luis Diaz Jr of Memorial Sloan Kettering, told the New York Times that he knew of no other study in which a treatment completely obliterated cancer in every patient.

2. The EU has seen a record drop in carbon emissions

Greenhouse gas emissions in the bloc are at their lowest level since records began in the ‘90s, according to the latest official data published today by the European Environment Agency.

The overall reduction in emissions between 1990 and 2020 was 34 per cent, or 1.94 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases. That’s the equivalent of driving around the earth 1.94 billion times in an average-sized car.

Almost every EU member state had lower emissions than in