Reynolds American donated $5 million to Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. one week before FDA guidance opened $6 billion flavored vape market to tobacco giants.
Federal prosecutors seek 50-year sentence for Feeding Our Future founder Bock for orchestrating $242 million pandemic child-meal fraud.
Kennedy fires chair and vice chair of preventive services task force that determines which screenings insurers must cover at no cost under ACA.
Unidentified substance at New Mexico home kills three and hospitalizes 18 first responders called to suspected overdose.
ICE tightens access to overcrowded Arizona holding facility on second surprise oversight visit, requiring 24-hour notice for congressional staff and barring Mesa councilmember.
Iowa Gov. Reynolds signs laws requiring in-person abortion pill prescriptions, parental consent for HPV vaccines, and shielding providers who deny care for religious or moral reasons.
25 states and DC sue Education Department over OBBBA graduate loan caps taking effect July 1, citing rural healthcare workforce strain.
Colorado Supreme Court orders Children’s Hospital to resume gender-affirming care for 800 minors after hospital cut access citing federal funding threats.
EEOC orders Interior Department to pay damages to three Bureau of Indian Education employees denied religious exemptions to Biden’s 2021 COVID vaccine mandate.
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Trump adds 600 generic drugs to TrumpRx site that links to discount programs already offered by Cost Plus Drugs, Amazon Pharmacy, and GoodRx.
WHO declares Ebola public health emergency over Congo outbreak as CDC says U.S. risk remains low and moves to relocate exposed Americans.
FDA drug center head Tracy Beth Hoeg fired days after Commissioner Makary’s exit as White House faction purges his appointees from agency.
Texas AG Paxton forces Texas Children’s Hospital to open nation’s first ‘detransition clinic,’ pay $10 million, and fire five doctors over gender-affirming care.
Federal judge in Rhode Island quashes DOJ subpoena demanding identities and complete medical records of every minor treated for gender dysphoria at Rhode Island Hospital since 2020.
Supreme Court extends stay allowing mifepristone mail and telehealth orders to continue nationwide while Louisiana challenge proceeds, drawing dissents from Thomas and Alito.
Utah measles cases hit 663 as state remains national hotspot, its largest outbreak in over 40 years, with 51 hospitalized and 567 unvaccinated.
HHS chief spokesperson Rich Danker resigns over senior officials seeking FDA approval for child-appealing vape flavors, week after administration approved first fruit-flavored pod.
CMS imposes immediate six-month freeze on new Medicare enrollment for home health and hospice providers, citing fraud, with existing providers continuing to operate.
Vance withholds $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments from California in administration’s largest-ever deferral and threatens similar action against all 50 states.
FDA Commissioner Makary forced out after anti-abortion pressure as Supreme Court weighs ending mifepristone telemedicine.
Justice Alito extends temporary stay keeping mifepristone available by mail through Thursday, after Louisiana won 5th Circuit ruling restricting access.
HHS launches Moms.gov on Mother’s Day directing pregnant women to anti-abortion centers posing as medical clinics.
California launches first-in-the-nation program giving 400 free diapers to every newborn at participating hospitals starting this summer.
CDC tracks cruise passengers in five US states after hantavirus outbreak kills three on Atlantic birdwatching voyage.
Giuliani’s spokesman ties former NYC mayor’s pneumonia to 9/11 exposure as he exits ICU after ventilator.
Kennedy launches federal push to taper patients off antidepressants, repeating debunked claim that quitting is harder than heroin.
FDA withdraws publication of COVID and shingles vaccine safety studies, citing conclusions HHS says exceeded the data.
FDA approves four flavored vapes from Glas Inc. days after Trump reprimanded Commissioner Makary for moving too slowly.
Supreme Court briefly pauses Fifth Circuit ban on mifepristone telemedicine, giving justices a week to weigh emergency appeals.
DHS quietly exempts foreign physicians from the 39-country travel ban after a Venezuelan family doctor was detained and a US shortage of 65,000 doctors deepened.
Mifepristone maker Danco asks Supreme Court to pause Fifth Circuit ruling blocking telehealth prescriptions.
FDA expands early access to Revolution Medicines pancreatic cancer drug daraxonrasib after late-stage trial nearly doubled survival.
Fifth Circuit blocks mail and telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone nationwide in ruling siding with Louisiana.
Medicare portal exposed dozens of provider Social Security numbers in DOGE-led directory that Sens. Wyden and Merkley flagged for rushed rollout in November.
CMS defers another $91 million in Minnesota Medicaid funding citing fraud, on top of February’s $259 million, as Walz calls it “campaign of retribution.”
Trump withdraws wellness influencer Casey Means as surgeon general pick and nominates Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a Caribbean-trained radiologist with an herbal supplement business.
Justice Department indicts former Fauci aide David Morens, 78, on two counts of concealing pandemic-origin emails as administration promotes lab-leak theory.
Wyoming judge blocks state’s six-week abortion ban, citing voter-approved 2012 constitutional amendment that protects healthcare decisions.
South Carolina’s 200-day measles outbreak ends at 997 cases, the largest US outbreak in 35 years, with most victims unvaccinated children.
Justice Department moves to reclassify cannabis to Schedule III, would be first federal loosening since 1971 Controlled Substances Act.
CDC overrides scientific review to block publication of report showing COVID vaccine halved ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter.
Hegseth makes flu shots voluntary for U.S. service members, ending a mandate in place since 1945 and rejecting Navy health guidance on readiness.
Oz orders all 50 states to submit Medicaid provider revalidation plans within 30 days, threatens aggressive audits, weeks after CMS overstated New York fraud figure by 4.5 million enrollees.
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court strikes down state Medicaid abortion coverage ban as sex-based discrimination under state Equal Rights Amendment.
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.