Texas Medical Board finds wrongdoing against three doctors in deaths of two women under state abortion ban, with punishment totaling only eight hours of continuing education.
Trump nominates former deputy surgeon general Erica Schwartz to lead CDC, replacing fifth acting director Bhattacharya since 2024.
Rubio orders U.S. diplomats to push “trade over aid” U.N. declaration rejecting humanitarian assistance as creating dependency.
Kentucky’s Republican supermajority overrides most of Gov. Beshear’s vetoes, including a judicial budget that courts say would force drug and mental health courts to close.
ICE detains second Venezuelan doctor in South Texas in a week, separating an ER physician with a valid work permit from her 5-year-old U.S. citizen daughter.
Trump administration admits it overstated New York Medicaid personal care usage by tenfold in figures used to justify fraud investigation.
CDC acting director delays publication of report showing covid vaccine cut hospitalizations by 55%, raising fears of scientific suppression under Kennedy.
Trump administration seeks monthly collection of detailed medical records from 8 million federal workers, retirees and their families.
After a judge blocked his hand-picked vaccine advisors for lacking expertise, Kennedy rewrites the CDC panel’s charter to give himself broader appointment power.
U.S. added 178,000 jobs in March after losing 133,000 in February, but the labor force shrank by 396,000 and wage growth hit its lowest point since 2021.
Trump announces up to 100% tariff on imported brand-name drugs, but built-in exemptions mean the full rate may never apply to any major drugmaker.
Twenty-two states accuse ICE of pulling Medicaid data on citizens and legal residents in violation of a court order limiting what the agency could access.
CDC pauses diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and over two dozen other diseases after losing 20% to 25% of its workforce to downsizing.
Supreme Court rules 8-1 that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates the First Amendment, calling it viewpoint discrimination subject to strict scrutiny.
EPA watchdog finds nearly 100 Superfund toxic waste sites vulnerable to flooding and wildfires, with 13 million Americans living within three miles of them.
Kansas legislature overrides governor’s veto to exempt crisis pregnancy centers from rules governing what medical information they provide to patients.
Vance holds first meeting of new anti-fraud task force targeting federal benefit programs, citing Minnesota allegations that triggered Operation Metro Surge.
Sen. Susan Collins violated the STOCK Act she helped write by missing the disclosure deadline for her husband’s Pfizer bond purchase.
Justice Department opens civil rights investigations into admissions at Stanford, Ohio State and UC San Diego medical schools, threatening federal funding.
White House indefinitely delays naming a permanent CDC director, leaving acting head Bhattacharya past a statutory deadline while also running NIH.
CDC’s bullet-shattered windows remain papered over seven months after a gunman who blamed COVID vaccines fired 180 rounds into the agency’s campus.
Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent for failing to warn users of addiction dangers in first social media “Big Tobacco” bellwether trial.
Robert Malone, the anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. appointed as vice chair of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, quits after a spat with an HHS spokesperson.
FDA warns ImmunityBio over misleading TV and podcast promotions claiming its bladder cancer drug Anktiva “can treat all cancers” and prevent radiation-caused cancer.
New Mexico jury orders Meta to pay $375 million for harming children’s mental health and misleading parents about safety on Instagram and Facebook.
FEMA’s disaster response chief Gregg Phillips, a far right conspiracy theorist, claims on multiple podcasts that he has been teleported against his will to a Waffle House.
HHS launches investigations into 13 states that require health insurers to cover abortion, executing a strategy the Heritage Foundation proposed in Project 2025.
Georgia charges a woman with felony murder after police say she took pills to induce an abortion, in one of the first such cases since the state’s heartbeat law took effect.
Federal judge vacates RFK Jr.’s declaration targeting gender-affirming care, ruling HHS exceeded its authority and calling the approach “break it and see.”
Texas reports 136 measles cases this year, with 99 concentrated in a single federal detention facility in Hudspeth County.
Trump administration expands Medicaid fraud crackdown to Florida after targeting Minnesota, New York, Maine and California.
State Department memo proposes cutting HIV treatment for 1.3 million Zambians unless the country gives U.S. companies preferential access to its copper and lithium mines.
Federal judge blocks RFK Jr.’s overhauled vaccine panel from meeting or implementing changes to childhood immunization schedule.
Hundreds of VA mental health therapists have quit since Trump took office, leaving veterans waiting up to six months for one-on-one counseling as the U.S. fights a new war.
Fourth Circuit becomes first federal appeals court to uphold a state ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery, citing last year’s Supreme Court transgender ruling 70 times.
Sen. Hawley introduces bill to revoke FDA approval for mifepristone, the drug used in 63% of all U.S. abortions, citing a study whose findings the FDA disputes by a factor of 22.
VA announces plan to force homeless veterans into guardianship proceedings that could place them in involuntary mental health treatment.
ICE reverses plans to close Fort Bliss detention camp and hires a new unnamed contractor after firing the Virginia company that ran the $1.24 billion facility from a suburban house.
State investigation reveals Bridgeport, CT, officer having a panic attack took the ambulance called for a man police shot in the back, who died in surgery after a 12-minute delay.
FDA rejects autism use for drug its own commissioner promoted, approves it only for rare genetic condition affecting fewer than one in a million.
Legionella bacteria detected in Baltimore federal building that houses ICE holding rooms and a child care facility, with treatment failing to eliminate contamination.
FDA vaccine chief Prasad to leave for a second time next month after falsely claiming Covid shots killed children and facing backlash over rare disease delays.
DOJ lawyer tells federal judge that RFK Jr.’s vaccine authority is “unreviewable,” including the hypothetical power to recommend Americans get measles instead of a vaccine.
Tylenol orders for pregnant ER patients fell 10% after Trump warned against use, while prescriptions rose 71% for an unproven autism drug he promoted, Lancet study finds.
CDC deploys disease detectives to South Carolina’s largest measles outbreak in 30 years, 22 weeks in, as the agency operates with 25% fewer staff.
Federal science workforce lost nearly 95,000 employees in 15 months as Trump cut Fish and Wildlife science contracts 100% and CDC contracts 79%.
ICE moves to close Fort Bliss detention camp after three deaths, measles outbreak, and homicide ruling, but offers no closure timeline.
Measles outbreak closes Fort Bliss ICE tent camp to visitors as 14 detainees test positive and 112 are isolated, raising public health alarms in El Paso.
New York attorney general orders NYU Langone to resume transgender youth care, telling the hospital its shutdown was “self-imposed” because no federal rule required it.
White House says visible rash on Trump’s neck is a “preventative skin treatment” but won’t name the medication or say what it prevents.
