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UK, North Yorkshire, Female doctor looking at MRI scanner monitor

Health United Kingdom

10. January 2026

Scientists Unveil How the Mind Grows and Adapts Across Life

In the United Kingdom, scientists in 2025 identified four clear turning points in the human brain, showing that our brain continues to develop into the early thirties and reshaping how we understand growth, learning, and ageing.

Health USA

9. January 2026

Cell Energy Breakthrough: Regenerative Medicine Milestone

Scientists in the United States have shown that damaged cells can be re-energised by boosting their mitochondria, offering a promising new route to treat ageing and degenerative diseases.

Health The World

8. January 2026

Measles Vaccine Efforts Have Saved 59 Million Lives in 25 Years

Global immunisation campaigns have cut measles deaths by 88% since 2000, saving nearly 59 million lives and bringing the world closer to eliminating one of its deadliest childhood diseases.

Technology United Kingdom

19. December 2025

Nobel Prize AI System Revolutionizes Lab Work Worldwide

In the United Kingdom, scientists have used artificial intelligence to predict the 3D structures of more than 200 million proteins, transforming biological research worldwide.

Health Africa

14. December 2025

Five-in-One Vaccine Could Put an End to These Deadly Epidemics

Across Africa’s “meningitis belt,” countries are introducing a new vaccine that targets all major strains of meningococcal bacteria, offering hope of ending the devastating epidemics that have killed hundreds of thousands.

Global Fund Eighth Replenishment Summit In South Africa

Health USA

13. December 2025

Global Health Fund’s Top Donor Pledges Billions More

The United States has reaffirmed its role as the largest donor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, pledging $4.6 billion for 2026–28 despite an overall tightening of international aid budgets.

"swimming cap" invention for brain surgery on babies

Technology United Kingdom

12. December 2025

Portable Cap to Revolutionize Treating Newborn Brain Injuries

In the United Kingdom, scientists have developed a soft, sensor-filled cap that uses light and ultrasound to monitor babies’ brains directly from their hospital cots, aiming to speed diagnosis and treatment for brain injuries.

Trachoma elimination WHO certification Egypt

Health Egypt

5. December 2025

Huge Victory Over Ancient Disease

Egypt has officially eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, becoming the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region — and the 27th worldwide — to reach this milestone, according to the World Health Organization.

Compendium of TB best practices in the Russian Federation

Health The World

3. December 2025

Progress in Global Fight Against Tuberculosis

The world is making steady progress in defeating one of its oldest infectious diseases, as new data from the World Health Organization show tuberculosis deaths and infections continuing to decline worldwide.

Zaitoon Ragman with her baby Naa-iqah (6 days old) and older children Raeez, Naa-ilah and Raheez at their home in Mitchell's Plain South Africa. Zaitoon survived PPH after child birth. Postpartum hemorrage (PPH) is severe bleeding after childbirth. Left without essential care, when a mother dies, her children face significantly higher risk of death themselves. WHO partners to stop Postpartum hemorrage (PPH) and save the lives of women and mothers. photo: KSchermbrucker/WHO 16 September 2025

Health South Africa

29. November 2025

Lifesaving Rules to Protect Postpartum Mamas

South Africa has begun applying new international guidelines that require action at just 300 mL of blood loss, enabling earlier treatment of postpartum haemorrhage and helping save lives like that of Cape Town mother Zaitoon Ragman.