England’s NHS has just launched something truly groundbreaking—the world’s very first gonorrhoea vaccination programme. This bold move could stop up to 100,000 infections and save the NHS nearly £8 million over the next ten years.
Senegal has reached a remarkable public health milestone. On 15 July 2025, the World Health Organization officially validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The country is now the ninth in Africa and the 25th in the world to achieve this status.
In a groundbreaking move that could revolutionize how women approach sexual health, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first ever over the counter home test for three common sexually transmitted infections: chlamydia, gonorrhoea, and trichomoniasis.
In a move that could reshape how America thinks about parenting, poverty, and public health, Tennessee is set to become the first state in the U.S. to offer free diapers to families enrolled in Medicaid. A groundbreaking step that starts this August. It is a bold, history making moment, one that acknowledges a long overlooked truth: a clean diaper isn’t just a basic need, it’s a form of healthcare.
Imagine living with a heart made of titanium, a cutting edge, magnetically suspended device beating inside your chest, keeping you alive. That’s exactly what happened to a man in his forties from Australia, who just became the first person in the world to walk out of a hospital with an artificial heart.
