Diabetes Care Innovation: A new non-invasive glucose monitor, GLUCUBE, has received EU CE medical device marking, aiming to help people with type 2 diabetes track glucose without finger pricks. Health Equity in Pandemics: A Lancet Commission warns that housing insecurity, lack of social protection, and barriers to services left many people unable to follow COVID-19 protections, and similar gaps could shape future death tolls. Environmental Health & Prevention: Spain’s semFYC is calling for stronger, more preventive rules on endocrine disruptors, stressing that exposure timing matters most during fetal development, childhood, and puberty. Local Health System Planning (Montserrat): A diaspora-led initiative is targeting US$6 million for phase one of a proposed private healthcare system for Montserrat, with mobile units, labs, and rotating specialists planned as early as February 2027, though key legal and operational details are still not public. Food Relief & Nutrition Support: Queens Together partnered with a Jamaican fusion deli to deliver culturally tailored meals to a local Korean War veteran for at least six months. Public Health Research (Flu): Researchers highlight pigs as a promising model for developing more effective influenza vaccines and therapies, aiming to better match human immune responses.