Health news today spans both accountability and anxiety. In Chicago, a federal jury awarded $49.5 million to the family of Samya Stumo, a nonprofit global health worker killed in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash, marking one of the largest single-family civil awards tied to Boeing’s disaster. Elsewhere, questions of safety and trust surfaced again: India condemned an attack on an Indian-flagged vessel off Oman, though all crew were rescued, underscoring wider fears over civilian lives in harm’s way. In the U.K., former patients of neurosurgeon Sam Eljamel say delays and silence around a public inquiry are deepening distress. In the U.S., a federal judge blocked the Justice Department from accessing confidential records of transgender patients at a Rhode Island hospital, a significant privacy ruling in the fight over gender-affirming care. And Charles Barkley, mourning Jason Collins, argued America remains far from accepting gay athletes fully.