The WHO Has Put Fungal Infections on the Danger List
New guidance targets a threat the agency calls one of the most neglected in global health. The problem is not just the infections, it is how few drugs exist to treat them.
Aug 4, 2026

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New guidance targets a threat the agency calls one of the most neglected in global health. The problem is not just the infections, it is how few drugs exist to treat them.
Aug 4, 2026

Telling people to eat differently is one thing. Telling type 1 diabetics they can stop injecting is another, and it is the claim that brought regulators down on nizam al-tayyibat.
May 25, 2026

Shortages pushed patients toward compounded semaglutide. The FDA's latest alert shows why that workaround carries real risk.
Aug 5, 2024

Diabetes care is organised around bringing numbers down, which makes it easy to forget that the acute danger points the other way. The ADA defines three levels of hypoglycaemia, and the third one requires another person.
Aug 6, 2026

One patient cannot bear a bedsheet touching their feet. Another cannot feel a nail through their shoe. Both have diabetic neuropathy, and the second is in more danger than the first.
Jul 28, 2026

Fear, disrupted sleep, grief and irritability are common during conflict. Evidence-based support begins with safety and practical care, while recognizing when professional help is urgent.
Jul 25, 2026

For much of the Gulf's working population, the conflict is somewhere their family lives and they do not. The particular difficulty of that position is helplessness, and there are things that genuinely help with it.
Aug 13, 2026

Biohackers take metformin to slow aging, but the trial designed to actually prove that, TAME, still has not finished enrolling.
May 6, 2024

Three thousand Dutch adults who ended their showers cold took fewer sick days. A 2025 review of eleven trials found stress fell twelve hours after a plunge and inflammation rose. What is known, what is marketing, and why the first minute can kill.
Sep 6, 2026

A delayed mortality count reveals the June heatwave’s true scale, showing why the deadliest climate disaster can pass quietly behind ordinary causes of death.
Jul 23, 2026

WHO’s new figures show real progress despite a billion more vehicles, while poorer countries and vulnerable road users remain on the wrong side of the decline.
Jul 22, 2026
