NIH to launch autism registry and share private medical data for RFK Jr.’s study criticized as stigmatizing and unfounded.
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 move to gut endangered species protections by redefining “harm” to exclude habitat destruction.
Trump admin proposes 30% cut to health budgets, slashing HIV prevention, mental health care, and chronic disease programs.
RFK Jr. claims measles is plateauing as cases double last year’s total, top 700, and spread to six states with three dead.
Trump signs orders to revive U.S. coal industry, mandate new plants, and reclassify coal as a critical mineral despite its role in climate change and extreme weather.
RFK Jr. plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water, echoing Utah ban and triggering EPA review.
Trump administration doesn’t renew contract for translating weather alerts and forecasts, cutting access for non-English speakers.
Peer-reviewed study last week shows NIH cancer breakthrough helping 1 in 4 patients, but Trump-era layoffs are delaying treatment rollout.
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.
Judge slams EPA and Citibank over $20 billion green grant freeze, questions legality of Trump-aligned shutdown targeting nonprofits.
Scientists and labor unions sue NIH over Trump-era purge of DEI, vaccine, and Covid research, citing $2.4 billion in canceled grants.
Trump move threatens to eliminate NIST spectroscopy group, putting global atomic data used in fusion, astronomy, and medicine at risk.
Disgraced anti-vaccine activist who has falsely posed as physician is hired by Trump’s HHS to “prove” debunked autism link using CDC data.
Trump administration told researchers to cut sexual orientation data from rural smoking study, prompting withdrawal from federally published health journal.
French scientist denied U.S. entry after CBP flagged private messages criticizing Trump’s science cuts.
NOAA, the agency for weather, oceans, and fisheries, faces a second round of 1,000 layoffs, bringing total job losses to 25%.
NASA eliminated 23 senior positions, including its Chief Scientist, and closed an office studying space and tech policy.
