File photo: a woman sitting by a large window. Photo: Alexandre Chambon (Unsplash), via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. In the news · April 2026 A Scientific Reports study from Turkey surveyed 333 women aged 20 to 40 in romantic relationships. Using standardized scales and mediation analysis, it found that higher self-silencing was linked to greater exposure…
File photo: a modern hospital room. Photo: JesusisGreat7, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. In the news · September 2026 For World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2026, the WHO focused on safe care for people with noncommunicable diseases. It states that about 1 in 10 patients are harmed during healthcare worldwide, roughly half of that…
In This Series: Road, Transit & Child Safety Nobody Skips the Car Seat. The Deaths Are in the Exceptions. Half of the People Who Die in Crashes Were Not Wearing a Belt Three Quarters of Pedestrian Deaths Happen After Dark. Your Reflective Vest Is in the Wrong Place. A Child Physically Cannot See a Car…
File photo: an English Jobcentre Plus office. Photo: Hassocks5489, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. In the news · April 2026 The 2026 Economic Report of the President says workers displaced in mass layoffs face 50-100 percent higher mortality in later years, cutting life expectancy by roughly 1 to 1.5 years. It values that loss at about…
Key takeaways · 11 min read In Kentucky over seventeen years, 87% of 36,673 boil-water advisories were issued because of a line break or leak, not because of a positive test. Average duration was five days. A pressure loss stops the pipe being a sealed system. That is the mechanism, and it has the best…
Key takeaways · 12 min read In the largest global analysis, wars between 1990 and 2017 were associated with 29.4 million excess civilian deaths after battle deaths had been removed from the data. 21.0 million of those were communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional; 6.0 million were non-communicable disease; 2.4 million were injuries other than combat,…
Six inches knocks an adult down and twelve carries away most cars — and over half of flood drownings are drivers. Meanwhile the official maps miss about six million American properties.
The limit is per depositor, per insured bank, per ownership category — and it is triggered only by a bank failing. Uninsured depositors lost money in 63% of US failures from 1992 to 2007 and in about 6% since. That was a change in practice, not in law.
Among Medicare patients already admitted when a ransomware attack began, in-hospital mortality rose 34 to 38 per cent. The harm also spreads to hospitals that were never attacked — and the security remediation that follows a breach has a measurable cost of its own.
The 50 per cent figure everyone quotes is an average across measures that disagree. Across 90 cohorts and 2.2 million adults, social isolation raised mortality risk 32 per cent and loneliness 14 — and every improvement in method makes the number smaller.
