Every Magna Bureau story on Health: 12 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Last updated: October 2026
Health is the ground truth of power: a state that cannot keep its people alive and well cannot hold anything else. The Bureau tracks outbreaks, health systems, vaccines, and the politics that decide who gets care — and who does not.
On the shore of Lake Albert, a mobile laboratory delivers its verdict in about an hour. But the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is still outrunning the science meant to stop it.
NewsMore than 15,000 patients wait for medical evacuation, oxygen stations are failing, and a cancer caught early still kills — the ‘ceasefire’ changed the bombing’s tempo, not the blockade’s logic, medic
NewsGovernor Kathy Hochul's order — the first US state disaster declaration since measles began surging in 2025 — expands who can give MMR shots and order tests as 108 cases spread through under-immunized
NewsAid to Africa has fallen over 25 percent and women and children are paying: in Kenya, closed clinics, empty contraceptive shelves and rising HIV infections trace back to the US aid collapse.
NewsA Kenyan who had lived in the DRC for seven years flew from Entebbe to Nairobi visibly ill, died of Bundibugyo Ebola on October 5, and has put 55 people under contact tracing — while officials insist
NewsWith US and European aid drying up, Kenya's clinics are closing and mothers are paying cash. The continent is learning to fund its own survival.
NewsOctober is breast cancer awareness month, and France is all in — 61,000 diagnoses a year, a national screening push, and a Paris lab growing 'tumors on a chip' to beat the disease in four days.
NewsDaria Shipilova, 28, died days after a reported accident at Russia's Irkutsk anti-plague institute. Washington says Moscow is withholding information. Moscow says the media is lying.
NewsMore than 400 Sudanese a day are crossing into Chad — twenty times the recent rate — while US funding cuts strip health, water and protection from nearly half a million people.
NewsMedics say a drone-fired missile hit a tent used as a phone-charging point near Nasser Hospital on Sunday; funerals were held Monday. Israel says it struck militants; Hamas accuses Israel of wrecking
NewsThree years after the October 7 attacks, Gaza's health ministry puts the toll at 74,250 dead and 175,278 injured. A ceasefire agreed in October 2025 has not stopped the strikes, millions remain displa
NewsThe 71-year-old pope announced the lung surgery himself on Sunday, enters Rome's Gemelli hospital on Tuesday, and still plans November's South America trip. Here is what we know so far.
World Health Organization — full profile: members, data and context.
