Health & Medicine Screensavers

The state of global health, ranked and live: WHO Global Health Observatory country boards covering everything from life expectancy to disease burden, FDA safety-report feeds, and a stream of newly-published medical research. Free and fullscreen in your browser.

Pandemic Alert BoardWHO health news, via the pipeline. Open → Global Vaccination Coverage BoardReal ranked childhood vaccination coverage by country. Open → Global Life Expectancy BoardReal ranked life expectancy by country, from the WHO. Open → Global Physician Density BoardReal doctors per 10,000 people, ranked. Open → FDA Recall Alert BoardReal US food and drug recalls. Open → Clinical Trials Registry FeedReal newly-registered clinical trials. Open → Global Health Spending BoardReal health spending by country. Open → Obesity Prevalence BoardReal adult obesity rates, ranked by country. Open → Diabetes Risk BoardReal raised blood glucose rates, ranked by country. Open → Suicide Rate BoardReal age-standardized suicide rates, ranked by country. Open → Maternal Mortality BoardReal maternal mortality ratios, ranked by country. Open → Hospital Bed Density BoardReal hospital bed density, ranked by country. Open → Tobacco Use BoardReal adult tobacco use rates, ranked by country. Open → Malaria Incidence BoardReal malaria incidence, ranked by country. Open → Tuberculosis Incidence BoardReal tuberculosis incidence, ranked by country. Open → HIV Prevalence BoardReal HIV prevalence among adults, ranked by country. Open → Child Mortality BoardReal under-5 mortality rates, ranked by country. Open → Alcohol Consumption BoardReal alcohol consumption per capita, ranked by country. Open → Nursing Density BoardReal nursing & midwifery staff density, ranked by country. Open → FDA Drug Safety ReportsReal FDA drug adverse-event reports, live. Open → FDA Device Safety ReportsReal FDA medical device incident reports, live. Open → PubMed New ResearchReal new medical research articles, live. Open → Flu Surveillance CurveThe real US flu season curve, updated weekly. Open → Road Traffic Deaths BoardReal road-traffic death rates, ranked by country. Open → Wastewater Virus LevelsThe CDC's wastewater early-warning signal, ranked. Open → FDA Drug ShortagesWhich medicines are short right now. Open → FDA Drug ApprovalsWhich drugs just cleared the FDA. Open → Approved Drug MoleculesEvery molecule that made it. Open → Healthcare Provider RegistryWho provides care, by city. Open → Notifiable DiseasesWhat clinicians must report. Open → Drug ClassificationHow medicines are organised. Open → MedlinePlus TopicsPlain-language health reference. Open → WHO Outbreak NewsThe official outbreak notifications. Open → WHO NewsroomGuidance, campaigns and statements. Open → CDC Weekly ReportWhat US public health is seeing. Open → medRxiv PreprintsHealth research before review. Open → Drug Labels FiledThe same molecule, relabelled again. Open → Life Expectancy GapThirty-three years, top to bottom. Open → What A Disease Is Made OfWhere the evidence currently points. Open → Five Stars, Whatever That MeansNearly half get no star at all. Open → Who Finishes Primary SchoolThe bottom of the table is the story. Open → Pulled From the ShelvesClass I is the row worth reading. Open → When the Patient Is an AnimalSomeone’s dog, and a flea treatment. Open → Reported About TobaccoFiled by the public, not a clinician. Open → What Drugs Actually Bind ToA drug acts on a protein, not a disease. Open → Every Brand Name a Drug HasThe Xs, the Zs, the vowels. Open → The Words For What Is WrongHow clinicians describe a patient. Open → Six Thousand Ways To Be RareDiseases with codes of their own. Open → What Canada Just ApprovedEvery strength gets its own number. Open → Cancer Genomes, SharedPapers that gave away their data. Open → Tissue By TissueWhat was possible to collect. Open → One Disease, Many NamesWhy a mouse model tells you anything. Open → Variants Called PathogenicEach one an assertion someone owns. Open →

Most of these boards read the World Health Organization's own published country statistics — the same reference data epidemiologists and health ministries use — and rank every reporting country by a single real indicator, easing the bars into place as fresh figures arrive. A few instead stream individual real records as they're reported: FDA adverse-event and recall filings, and new articles landing in PubMed. Nothing here is medical advice; it's a live window onto public data.

Frequently asked questions

Where does this health data come from?: Mainly the WHO Global Health Observatory's key-less public API, plus the FDA's openFDA API and the National Library of Medicine's PubMed — the same open datasets researchers and journalists use.
Is this medical advice?: No. These are population-level statistics and public safety-report feeds for ambient viewing, not a diagnostic or clinical tool.
How often does the data update?: Country health-indicator boards refresh as WHO republishes its underlying datasets (typically annually per indicator); FDA and PubMed feeds poll for new individual reports every few minutes.
Does this need an internet connection?: Yes — every saver here reads a live feed. Offline, it shows a short notice instead of data.