Health news today moves between grief, emergency response and the fragile hope that often follows loss. In music, New York hardcore pioneer Lou Koller, the voice and co-founder of Sick of It All, has died at 59 after a two-year battle with esophageal cancer, just as the band neared its 40th anniversary. In Essex, a very different health story unfolded when an explosion at an industrial site sparked a major fire that spread to a fertiliser store, sending 20 firefighters to hospital and destroying three fire engines. Public health officials in Nigeria’s Benue State are meanwhile investigating a suspected mpox case after reports of a skin disease in Konshisha. In Barcelona, authorities are examining the death of a construction worker during Camp Nou renovations. And amid the day’s harder headlines, one story offered solace: a grieving mother finding comfort in a letter from the person who received her young daughter’s donated liver.