Health headlines today are dominated by questions of accountability, vulnerability and how institutions respond when care goes wrong. In Los Angeles, Erik Fleming, a drug addiction counselor who admitted supplying ketamine linked to Matthew Perry’s 2023 overdose, was sentenced to two years in federal prison, another milestone in the wider prosecution over the actor’s death. In France, authorities have confined more than 1,700 passengers and crew aboard a cruise ship in Bordeaux after a 90-year-old passenger died and around 50 people developed suspected norovirus symptoms, underscoring how quickly infectious illness can disrupt closed environments. In Australia, an inquest has opened into the death of 95-year-old Clare Nowland, who died after being tasered in a New South Wales aged care home, with scrutiny falling on police and emergency training around dementia. And in India, Prateek Yadav, son of former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, has died in Lucknow at 38.