HHS reverses course, restores funding for landmark Women’s Health Initiative women’s-health study after backlash
DOJ cancels grants for gun-violence prevention, addiction programs, and victim advocacy under Trump directive.
NIH to launch autism registry and share private medical data for RFK Jr.’s study criticized as stigmatizing and unfounded.
House Oversight Chair James Comer refers former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for criminal charges over COVID nursing home cover-up.
Montana confirms first measles cases in 30+ years; health officials hope high vaccination rates will limit spread.
RFK Jr. suggests compensating families of people with severe autism, saying his comments apply to 25% and linking the condition to environmental toxins.
Trump administration to cut another $1 billion from Harvard health research funding after university rejects White House demands.
Trump replaces COVID data website with page blaming Fauci and China, deletes info on vaccines and treatment.
Trump officials fired 43 NIH science advisers—38 of them women or people of color—in a mass purge with no explanation.
Trump officials asked Medicare to help track undocumented immigrants using a health database tied to Social Security numbers.
Trump admin proposes 30% cut to health budgets, slashing HIV prevention, mental health care, and chronic disease programs.
Trump exempts nearly 70 coal plants from mercury and toxin pollution limits, including nation’s top polluter.
HHS officials told Congress they don’t know how many workers were fired under Trump’s mass layoff plan.
Musk’s DOGE hijacks computerized federal grant system, blocking agencies from posting $500B in awards.
RFK Jr. claims measles is plateauing as cases double last year’s total, top 700, and spread to six states with three dead.
RFK Jr. plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water, echoing Utah ban and triggering EPA review.
Trump admin kills final U.S. food aid in Middle East after Musk ally overrides Rubio, UN warns cuts endanger refugees in Syria, Yemen, Jordan, and Lebanon.
Tuesday’s HHS layoffs disrupted key safety hotlines for food, cosmetics, and infant health as RFK Jr. restructured agency.
Peer-reviewed study last week shows NIH cancer breakthrough helping 1 in 4 patients, but Trump-era layoffs are delaying treatment rollout.
Kennedy attends Texas funeral for unvaccinated 8-year-old who died of measles, urges MMR vaccination as 642 U.S. cases span 22 states.
Rubio-led State Department fires U.S. aid workers while they conduct earthquake relief in Myanmar, where over 3,000 have died.
Chemical lobby races through EPA’s ‘polluter portal’ as two trade groups ask Trump to exempt all toxic air polluters from Biden-era rules.
Judge says she’ll temporarily block Trump’s $11B public health cuts, with full injunction hearing still ahead.
Senate confirms TV’s ‘Dr. Oz’ to lead Medicare and Medicaid, overseeing coverage for 160 million people, in party-line vote.
Measles outbreaks spread across five states as U.S. sees more cases in 3 months than in all of last year.
Top Trump FDA official pauses Novavax Covid-19 vaccine approval in rare intervention overriding staff scientists.
The day after firing 2,400 workers, Trump administration orders CDC to cut $2.9 billion in contracts, slashing 35 percent of outside spending.
Scientists and labor unions sue NIH over Trump-era purge of DEI, vaccine, and Covid research, citing $2.4 billion in canceled grants.
