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More Americans Than Ever Are in Therapy. The System Behind Them Is Shaking.

New Delhi, June 26 -- ATLANTA - For a growing number of Americans, the decision to sit down across from a therapist has stopped feeling like a confession and started feeling like maintenance, somethin... Read More


WHO SAFER Alcohol Report: 2.6 Million Dead Annually as Global Drink Prices Drop

The report, June 26 -- Every day, roughly 7,000 people around the world die from alcohol. Not from addiction as an abstraction, but from liver disease advancing silently over years, from road crashes ... Read More


H5N1 Bird Flu Reaches South Australia, Completing the Virus's Global Sweep

CANBERRA, June 26 -- When a sick giant petrel was brought to a wildlife rescue group on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula on June 14, the bird was just another distressed seabird in need of care. T... Read More


Supreme Court Sides With Bayer in Roundup Cancer Ruling, Wiping Out Thousands of Lawsuits

New Delhi, June 26 -- WASHINGTON - For two decades, John Durnell kept weeds out of his Missouri garden with Roundup. By 2019, he had non-Hodgkin lymphoma. A jury gave him $1.25 million and found that ... Read More


Europe's Record-Breaking Heatwave Kills Hundreds as WHO Warns Health Systems Cannot Cope

PARIS, June 26 -- Two children died after being left in a hot car outside Lyon. In southern Spain, the thermometer reached 45 degrees Celsius. Across a continent that was not built for this kind of he... Read More


An ALS Patient Has Spoken Two Million Words Through a Brain Implant Over Two Years

New Delhi, June 16 -- BOSTON - The voice that comes out of Casey Harrell's laptop is recognisably his. The team at Massachusetts General Hospital trained the system on a clip of him speaking before am... Read More


Canada's Opioid Deaths Fell 23% in 2025, but Officials Won't Call It a Turning Point

OTTAWA, June 16 -- For the second year running, fewer Canadians are dying of opioid overdoses, and for once the country's health officials allowed themselves a careful kind of relief. In 2025, 5,630 p... Read More


Nara Organics Recalls All Its Infant Formula After Three Babies Get Botulism

Over the weekend, June 16 -- The first signs are easy to miss. A baby who feeds a little slower, a cry that sounds weaker than the day before, a head that no longer holds steady. In three states this ... Read More


Diphtheria, a Disease of the Victorian Era, Returns to Kill in the Northern Territory

DARWIN, June 15 -- Diphtheria was supposed to be a disease of the past, the kind of illness that crowds Victorian-era death registers and then all but vanishes from the record. In remote communities a... Read More


Oral Drug That Could Stop Cytokine Storms in Cancer Patients Begins London Trial

New Delhi, June 14 -- the treatment that was supposed to save them has triggered an immune overreaction violent enough to land them in intensive care. It is called cytokine release syndrome, and it af... Read More