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.
FDA plans quarterly bonuses for staff who complete drug reviews ahead of schedule as agency works to hire 1,000 scientists after exodus under RFK Jr.
Vance and Oz announce $259 million Medicaid payment freeze to Minnesota, citing fraud from a COVID-era nutrition scandal as Walz calls it “a campaign of retribution.”
Surgeon general nominee Casey Means tells Senate committee that vaccines “save lives” after questioning childhood vaccine safety on Joe Rogan’s podcast, while senators flag her inactive medical license.
Fifteen states sue HHS and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over revised childhood vaccine schedule that cut recommended immunizations from 17 diseases to 11 without scientific review.
U.S. Forest Service stops issuing firefighter pants containing PFAS “forever chemicals” after ProPublica revealed the agency knew about the contamination for years and stayed silent.
CDC deputy director Ralph Abraham abruptly departs after two months, the latest in a string of leadership exits that has left the agency without a permanent director.
Education Department transfers school shooting emergency grants and community schools oversight to HHS as McMahon continues dismantling the agency only Congress can legally close.
Greenland’s prime minister rejects Trump’s offer to send a hospital ship, noting Greenland already provides free health care and telling Trump to stop making “random outbursts on social media.”
Federal judge seizes control of Arizona’s entire prison health care system after 14 years of litigation, two contempt findings and 131 of 154 court-ordered health standards violated, covering at least 25,000 incarcerated people.
Trump announces he is sending a Navy hospital ship to Greenland to treat people “not being taken care of,” though Greenland provides free health care and both Navy hospital ships are in an Alabama shipyard until at least April.
Trump approves FEMA emergency disaster relief for Washington after a Potomac River sewage line collapse that the city estimates will cost $20 million to repair and remediate.
New Mexico orders investigation into forced sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service, which a 1976 federal audit found sterilized 3,406 women without informed consent before the government stopped counting.
South Carolina hospitals are not required to report measles hospitalizations, leaving doctors unable to tell patients how severe the outbreak is as cases approach 1,000.
EPA rolls back mercury and toxic emission limits on coal plants nationwide, returning to weaker Obama-era standards the Biden administration had tightened.
Trump invokes Defense Production Act to declare Roundup chemical glyphosate a national security priority one day after Bayer proposes $7.25 billion settlement in cancer lawsuits.
Trump administration proposes spending $2 billion a year to rebuild disease surveillance systems it abandoned by leaving the WHO, roughly three times the $680 million it contributed annually.
Federal agencies told to surveil disabled employees’ social media and challenge medical records when reevaluating telework accommodations, as guidance dismisses anxiety as “unlikely” barrier to office work.
FDA removes online warnings about dangerous unproven autism treatments as Kennedy restaffs federal autism panel with advocates of chlorine dioxide, raw camel milk and chelation.
FDA agrees to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine after Trump’s vaccine chief initially rejected it by overruling career scientists who recommended the application proceed.
NIH director Bhattacharya adds acting CDC director to his portfolio, becoming the fifth person to lead the agency in 18 months as the 210-day nomination deadline approaches in late March.
FDA drops longtime requirement for two clinical studies before approving new drugs, a shift that primarily affects common diseases since 60% of novel disease drugs already cleared on single trials.
ICE deports 2-month-old with bronchitis and his family from Dilley detention center to Mexico with $190, a day after the infant was hospitalized for being unresponsive.
DC Mayor Bowser declares state of emergency over Potomac sewage spill and requests federal disaster declaration, after meeting with White House staff and EPA about the weeks-long ecological crisis.
Seventeen health and environmental groups sue EPA over repeal of the endangerment finding, the 2009 scientific framework that allowed regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.
NYU Langone shuts its transgender youth medical program after Trump administration proposed pulling federal funding from hospitals providing gender care for minors.
Six months after an explosion killed two workers at the nation’s largest coke plant, Trump exempted the facility from Biden-era benzene monitoring rules at U.S. Steel’s request.
Norwegian government scientist built a secret microwave pulse weapon, tested it on himself, and developed Havana syndrome symptoms, prompting Pentagon and White House visits in 2024.
WHO formally condemns a CDC-funded trial that would withhold a proven hepatitis B vaccine from 7,000 newborns in Guinea-Bissau, calling the study unethical and scientifically unjustified after two months of global backlash.
Two top RFK Jr. aides leave HHS in a White House-driven shakeup to sharpen health messaging ahead of midterm elections, including the acting CDC director who rarely visited the agency.
FDA’s top vaccine regulator single-handedly rejected Moderna’s flu shot application over a trial design the agency had previously approved, overruling career scientists who wrote a formal objection.
Federal judge blocks $600 million in public health funding cuts targeting four Democratic states, finding the grants were likely rescinded to retaliate against immigration enforcement opposition.
EPA revokes the 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health, eliminating the legal foundation for all federal climate regulation.
Trump administration sends all pregnant unaccompanied children to a single Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate, where abortion is virtually banned, over its own officials’ objections.
