Washington state resident dies of bird flu after exposure on an infected dairy farm, the third US death since the virus jumped to cows.
New York reports its first measles death in more than 30 years, a child in rural Lewis County, as US cases top 4,800.
Virginia opens health insurance enrollment with $150 million in first-come, first-served state subsidies to offset Congress letting enhanced federal credits expire.
Federal judge says South Carolina’s six-week abortion ban has “serious problems,” its medical exceptions too vague for doctors facing prison.
Affordable Care Act benchmark premiums rise 13% next year, up about 42% since 2025, as federal subsidy cuts drive healthier people out, KFF finds.
FDA proposes first infant formula nutrient update in nearly 30 years, silent on the botulism that hospitalized 52 infants fed powdered formula since last November.
CDC fails to approve its scientists’ urgent alert to doctors on measles in pregnancy as US cases hit a 35-year high, Washington Post reports.
Federal appeals court rules 2-1 Idaho can fully enforce its abortion ban, exposing a Boise doctor to prosecution for ending pregnancies that threaten patients’ health.
Rubio signs memo diverting nearly $49 million Congress set aside for contraception in low-income countries to energy costs for unnamed partners.
Health research agency director Jackson officially endorsed dropping hormone therapy’s black box warning while holding at least $115,000 in a menopause-care company she founded, ProPublica finds.
Federal judge blocks an administration rule narrowing who counts as “medically frail” and exempt from Medicaid work requirements, siding with 25 states and DC.
Ocean County, New Jersey, launches a free 24/7 text line that needs no app or sign-up, connecting older and disabled residents to rides, meals, and housing help.
Health Secretary Kennedy says 500 million Arabs “don’t produce science” or literature and don’t win Nobels, when asked about Michigan’s Senate race with Democrat El-Sayed.
ICE has jailed a mentally ill man since January to deport him to Jamaica, though AP finds records showing he was born in Florida.
Camden County, New Jersey, opens a $25 million, 60-unit transitional housing center for homeless residents with no referral required, part of its plan to end homelessness by 2030.
Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro signs a law banning students’ phones from first bell to dismissal starting next school year, joining at least 25 states.
Trump announces on Truth Social a $250 million-plus Medicare agency fund to recruit nursing home nurses, eight days before the midterms.
CDC Deputy Director Shuford will leave after the midterms, six months into the job, with one source citing disagreement over vaccine policy.
Grand County, Utah, accepts $757,000 in federal rural health money to give free rides to doctors for older and disabled residents without cars.
Palm Springs, California, police launch Palm Springs Connect, scheduled phone check-ins for isolated seniors with home welfare checks when they can’t be reached.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, passes the first county paid parental leave law, requiring businesses with 15-plus workers to give up to 12 weeks at full pay.
Florida’s locally acquired cases of mosquito-borne dengue pass 400 this year, most in Hillsborough County, as new cases reach Citrus, Manatee and Brevard counties.
Kennedy adviser Calley Means, co-author of the “MAHA bible,” quits as the movement sours on Kennedy over stalled food rules and corporate sponsors.
Trump tells North Carolina rally Camp Lejeune contaminated-water victims will be paid only if Republicans keep Congress: “If we don’t win, there’s no money.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump from cutting off hormone therapy for transgender federal prisoners, after letting him ban transgender troops.
Santa Barbara County, California, opens a 14-bed sobering center beside 12 beds of interim housing for people with mental illness and addiction. 22 words (label not counted)
Oklahoma has brought at least 222 criminal cases against women over their pregnancies since Roe fell, second only to South Carolina, an advocates’ count finds.
Pennsylvania warns doctors of measles passed to newborns, unseen in the US for decades, as its outbreak reaches 1,286 cases and six reported deaths.
Broward County, Florida, school board approves free menstrual products in student restrooms at least seven schools in a one-year pilot.
Dallas painter jailed since June dies in Laredo ICE cell, Texas’ seventh ICE custody death this year, as daughter says staff withheld his medication.
Trump tells Kentucky rally the Pentagon will invest $100 million in drugmaker Antheia to revive a Winchester plant “if the Republicans win” the midterms.
US measles cases pass 4,400 as CDC sends investigators to Pennsylvania, where six have died, and Health Secretary Kennedy vows “a quick close.”
National Institutes of Health hospital board unanimously rebukes Health Secretary Kennedy, saying his new vaccine injury clinic looks designed to confirm a foregone conclusion.
Boston awards $1 million to six clean air projects aimed at low-income neighborhoods, from daycare air filters to Chinatown heat pump conversions.
Eight states sue OpenAI in their own courts, alleging ChatGPT is an unsafe product that harms children and deceives parents.
FTC and seven states ask judge to hold former drug executive Martin Shkreli in contempt, saying he livestreamed trades violating his lifetime pharma ban.
CVS agrees to pay $315 million to settle Justice Department claims it filled illegitimate opioid prescriptions, after a former employee blew the whistle in 2019.
Memphis councilwoman directs $159,000 in council grant funds to cancel more than $17 million in medical debt for 12,000 residents.
Unvaccinated 39-year-old Franklin County woman becomes Pennsylvania’s sixth measles death, while CDC counts only two of the six.
Putnam County, New York, legislators unanimously fund round-the-clock coverage for the county’s mobile mental health crisis team with $380,152.
Pima County, Arizona, expands program pairing behavioral health specialists with police on homelessness and fentanyl calls, using about $400,000 a year in opioid settlement money.
US measles cases pass 4,000 in 45 states and DC, while CDC counts only two of the five deaths Pennsylvania has confirmed.
Cook County, Illinois, opens walk-in flu and COVID vaccine clinics to residents regardless of immigration status or insurance, with ads countering vaccine myths.
US measles cases reach 3,887, most since 1991, as Pennsylvania’s outbreak tops 1,000 before a November review experts expect will end US elimination status.
FDA says its safety review of abortion pill mifepristone, which could end mail delivery, won’t finish until March, months after the Nov. 3 midterms.
Defense Secretary Hegseth awards the USS Lincoln a Presidential Unit Citation a day before its return from a record deployment marked by eight suicide attempts.
Pennsylvania measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases with five dead, largest in a state since the early 1990s, as New York declares a disaster emergency.
Trump offers Russia help after Siberian plague institute worker’s death, saying microbes got “stronger and smarter,” as State Department calls plague treatable with common antibiotics.
988 crisis line restores its LGBTQ+ youth option with $33 million from Congress, more than a year after the Trump administration cut it.
Georgia’s Gwinnett County offers residents free vaccines and microchipping for up to three dogs or cats per household at six clinics through December.