Public Health Crisis

Crowds walk through a sun-blasted European street as four record heatwaves drove excess deaths across the continent

August 26, 2026

Record heatwaves kill 35,000 across Europe this summer as four consecutive heat waves strike continent

Four record-breaking heatwaves swept Europe this summer and killed 35,000 more people than normal, but health agencies say incomplete reporting means the true toll is higher.

Lilly Mounjaro KwikPen (Tirzepatide), via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Health·Policy

Mounjaro Deaths UK: 216 Cases Linked to MHRA Approval of New GLP-1 Drug

Estimated reading time: 1 minute Mounjaro deaths in the United Kingdom have climbed to 216 cases—a 300% surge from 2024 to 2025. Families grieve. Hospital protocols scramble. Coroners issue warnings. Yet as this death toll mounts, the UK’s Medicines and

August 10, 2026

BBC Weather Cuts 2026: Presenters Weigh Exit as UK Heatwave Claims 2,877 Lives

Disaster·Environment·Health·UK

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Three of Britain’s most experienced weather presenters are considering taking voluntary redundancy from the BBC — a move that

3,000 Cases of Antifungal-Resistant Candida Auris Reported Across 23 States in 2026

Health·Science·USA

Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus, now affects 3,000+ patients across 23 states. The CDC calls it an urgent antimicrobial threat. Texas leads with 706

Health·News·USA

Texas Measles Outbreak: 198 Cases, 23 Hospitalized, 2 Deaths Reported in Texas and New Mexico

The Texas measles outbreak has escalated to concerning levels, with 198 confirmed cases across nine counties and 23 hospitalizations, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. The crisis has claimed

Tejal Somvanshi

March 8, 2025

Injection.Photo Source:World Health Organization

Health·News·USA

FDA Cancels Key Flu Vaccine Meeting Amid Deadly Season; Experts Fear Production Delays

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has canceled a key meeting scheduled for March 13 that was meant to discuss the selection of flu strains for next season’s vaccines. The cancellation came

Tejal Somvanshi

February 28, 2025

Health·News·Science

Global Antibiotic Consumption Soars 16% to 34.3 Billion Doses Amid Alarming Resistance Trends

Remember when a simple strep throat could be knocked out with basic penicillin? Those days are fading fast. Each time you pop an antibiotic, microscopic bacteria are learning to fight back through

Tejal Somvanshiand

Rahul Somvanshi

November 20, 2024

Health

Public Health Alert: The Expanding Reach of Avian Flu in Birds, Mammals, and Humans

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported this Friday, June 7th, that after conducting a laboratory study, a first positive case of human infection with the H5N1 strain of avian flu was confirmed

Tejal Somvanshi

June 11, 2024

An Ae. aegypti mosquito, one of the primary vectors for the transmission of dengue fever around the world, gets a blood meal from a host. (Photo by James Gathany, courtesy of Centers for Disease Control)[CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED]

Europe·Health·USA

Climate Change Ignites Record Dengue Spread, Affecting Millions: How Safe is Europe and the US?”

Latin America is experiencing the worst dengue epidemic ever recorded in the history of the disease, with more than 8.2 million cases of people affected this year, according to data from the

Tejal Somvanshi

May 30, 2024

Health·USA

Over 320,000 U.S. Children Orphaned by Drug Overdoses in a Decade, NIDA Study Shows

A study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which analyzed data from 2011 to 2021, estimates that 321,656 children living in the United States lost a parent aged 18 to 64

Tejal Somvanshi

May 9, 2024

Health·World

How 149.2 Million Stunted Kids Spotlight Global Nutrition Crisis During a Overnutrition Epidemic

Children are the wealth of the world. But many of them suffer due to undernutrition. The prevalence of undernutrition is highest among children under 5. In 2021, 149.2 million children under five

Govind Tekale

March 8, 2024