Health & Wellbeing

Health systems fail against threats that already have fixes: childbirth deaths, drug-resistant infections, addiction crises with new illnesses emerging.

Antibiotic resistance

Why are the medicines that defeated infection starting to fail?

Solution progress:

313mnoperations performed worldwide each year, almost all relying on antibiotics now starting to fail

Maternal and newborn mortality

Why do mothers and babies still die in childbirth from causes medicine solved a century ago?

Solution progress:

287kwomen die each year from pregnancy or childbirth, usually from preventable causes

Opioid dependency

Why did a pain medicine become the deadliest drug crisis in modern history?

Solution progress:

125kopioid overdose deaths worldwide in a year, most preventable with timely naloxone

Why do we still douse the world's food in pesticides when safer methods often grow more?

Solution progress:

41%higher risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among the most heavily exposed workers, tied to the world's most-used weedkiller

Social isolation

Why is loneliness now as dangerous to health as smoking?

Solution progress:

871kdeaths a year linked to loneliness and isolation, about 100 every hour