Good news on global health, renewable energy, American comforts

As always, I hope you enjoy all the good news provided free in this edition of Fix the News. Among the items available to subscribers:

— Swiss regulators have approved the first malaria medication for newborn babies. The new treatment is expected to start rolling out in eight African countries before the end of 2025, reports Devex, a news organization covering global development.

— Solar power generated more electricity than any other source in the EU in June, as at least 13 member nations hit monthly solar power records. Just 6.1 percent of EU electricity came from coal, down from 8.8 percent a year earlier and the lowest monthly level on record, says Euronews. 

— “We live like royalty and don’t know it” is the headline of an article by Charles Mann, a science journalist and author of the book “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” in The New Atlantis.

Thomas Jefferson was one of the richest men in the new United States, but “his home was so cold in winter that the ink in his pen sometimes froze, making it difficult for him to write to complain about the chill,” Mann says. Jefferson’s life was closer to the lives of people in the Iron Age than to ours, with our electric grid, public water supply, food-distribution network, and public health system, Mann says.