Trump promises $90 checks to 20 million seniors a month before the midterms, using a Medicare fund he may lack authority to tap.
Federal appeals court keeps South Dakota from enforcing a law that can jail people for advertising abortion pills while a free speech suit proceeds.
Florida’s dengue outbreak hits a record 252 locally acquired cases, adding 62 in one week and topping 2023’s 199.
Trump sends $500 checks and a personal letter to 950,000 Obamacare enrollees in 30 states, a month before the midterms.
State Department ends health aid to Zimbabwe, where the US funded over 40% of HIV spending, after Zimbabwe’s government rejected a deal demanding health data.
Pennsylvania reports its fifth measles-related death this year, an unvaccinated person in Lancaster County, as cases reach 943 across 39 counties.
Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama sue California, New York and Massachusetts at the Supreme Court to void shield laws protecting providers who mail abortion pills.
Oneida County, Wisconsin, opens a free 24-hour public health vending machine stocked with hygiene kits, menstrual products, gun locks and drug disposal bags.
Pennsylvania confirms 903 measles cases in 39 counties this year, with four deaths, 176 hospitalizations and only four cases among vaccinated people.
Trump asks Supreme Court to let federal prisons end most gender-affirming care for transgender inmates, saying prison officials needn’t show evidence of security risks.
California Gov. Newsom signs nine laws putting abortion pills on community college campuses and widening which abortions midwives, nurse practitioners and physician assistants can perform.
Anchorage police launch a program offering drug treatment instead of arrest to people accused of misdemeanors like shoplifting, using $397,900 in opioid settlement money.
Linn County, Oregon, opens a free mental health crisis center for all ages, aiming to keep people out of busy emergency rooms and jail.
Federal appeals court keeps blocking Tennessee law making it a crime to tell minors about legal out-of-state abortions, ruling it violates the First Amendment.
TikTok agrees to pay Alabama $100 million and cap teens at two hours a day, settling the state’s youth addiction suit days before trial.
Trump moves to cancel $810 million Congress approved by running out the clock, as Republican Appropriations Chair Collins calls it a “clear violation” of law.
Navy discloses eight suicide attempts in the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group during an extended Iran war deployment Trump called “not nearly long enough.”
Chicago launches street psychiatry teams that treat unhoused residents in encampments, shelters and transit stations, following the same patients over time.
HHS moved $12 million from its minority health office to pay for Health Secretary Kennedy’s security, then canceled 16 grants citing “limited” funding, WSJ reports.
Trump administration cancels Affordable Care Act coverage for more than 760,000 people in enrollments it calls unauthorized, cracking down on insurance brokers.
Federal judge permanently blocks Trump rule barring visa holders, Dreamers and other immigrants from Head Start and health clinics, saying it skipped required public input.
Type 1 diabetic Costa Rican man dies in Louisiana ICE custody after complaining of missed insulin, family says, third death there in under six months.
ICE takes Austin man its agent shot back to the hospital, a day after he was discharged to detention with the bullet still inside, Rep. Joaquin Castro says.
Delaware takes over its farm-to-community food program, making it permanent state law after the Agriculture Department canceled its federal funding last year.
Judges and prosecutors in three New Jersey counties launch supervised treatment for defendants with serious mental illness, letting graduates have charges dismissed and records cleared.
Trump says he will demand makers split unnamed childhood vaccines into five doses at six-month intervals to cut autism, a link scientists have repeatedly debunked.
HHS Secretary Kennedy discloses over $250,000 in gifts, including flights to Fiji and Greece, from a security consultant who was a major 2024 campaign donor.
Trump says all 50 states joined most-favored-nation Medicaid drug pricing that “alone should win us the midterms,” as experts say Medicaid patients already pay little.
Six Senate Democrats demand Office of Personnel Management halt collecting claims-level health records on 8 million federal workers and families, data the agency can re-identify.
HHS Secretary Kennedy names eight members to the task force that decides which preventive care insurers must cover free, four months after firing its chair.
Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro refuses CDC help with a 731-case measles outbreak until the agency’s dashboard, still showing zero deaths, acknowledges the state’s four.
Pentagon issues mandatory testosterone screening for male service members over 30, delivering Hegseth’s July promise to keep troops on the “leading edge of lethality.”
HHS Secretary Kennedy tells the vaccine-skeptic group he co-founded it has a “steadfast friend at the White House” as measles deaths reach four in weeks.
Family of Tierra Walker, who died of preeclampsia at 20 weeks after doctors denied an abortion, sues Texas Attorney General and Senate nominee Paxton over the ban.
Unvaccinated 18-year-old dies of measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s fourth death, as Gov. Shapiro accuses HHS Secretary Kennedy of ordering CDC not to report them.
Kentucky Gov. Beshear erases $250 million in medical debt for more than 130,000 residents by spending $2.5 million in state housing money.
23 states sue to block DHS rule letting officials deny green cards over food stamps or Medicaid, four days before it takes effect.
EPA repeals limits on power-plant climate pollution, arguing greenhouse gases don’t endanger health, a claim that if upheld would bar future presidents from restoring them.
A 40-year-old woman dies of measles complications in Pennsylvania, the state’s third death this year in the nation’s largest outbreak since 1991.
North Carolina wins $590 million from Chemours and DuPont over forever-chemical pollution from the Fayetteville Works plant, the largest environmental damages recovery in state history.
Planned Parenthood sues to strike Wisconsin’s 24-hour abortion waiting period and physician-only rule as the state Supreme Court opens term with a 5-2 liberal majority.
Pennsylvania’s biggest measles outbreak in 30 years reaches 676 cases, 52 in two days, as CDC still omits state’s two deaths from its national tally.
CDC declares lettuce cyclospora outbreak over at 12,883 sickened in 21 states, 570 hospitalized and 2 dead, as FDA keeps investigating Taylor Farms’ Mexico operation.
California Gov. Newsom signs 13 youth online safety laws, banning personalized feeds and autoplay for kids under 16 and requiring AI chatbots to verify users’ ages.
Health Secretary Kennedy uses a $9,000-an-hour Air Force jet to campaign with Iowa Republicans, after Trump ousted his first-term health secretary over private-jet travel, Washington Post reports.
Deaths from ectopic pregnancies, which grow outside the womb and almost never survive, nearly doubled from 2020 to 2025 and rose fastest in states with strict abortion bans, ProPublica finds.
CDC gives employees with disabilities 20 days to resubmit medical paperwork it already received or lose interim accommodations, with 3,000 requests backlogged after HR layoffs.
US ends $45 million a year in HIV support for Namibia after the country refuses to hand over health data and biological specimens, the 5th African nation to reject at those terms.
Trump administration drafts rule paying married stay-at-home parents from a $12 billion child care fund now serving mostly single working mothers, with no new money, the New York Times reports.