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Democrats Split Over How to Fix Health Care
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries rejected Medicare for All on Sunday. Democrats now have three competing plans.
Read »Trump Orders Childhood Vaccines Split Into Separate Visits
Trump's executive order calls for one vaccine per doctor visit. The GOP's top health senator, a physician, is calling it "crazy, stupid."
A Surrogate Refused. Now Three States Are Fighting.
A baby with a treatable heart defect was born in Dallas Wednesday. His future is still in court.
One in Three U.S. Counties Has No Place to Give Birth
96 hospital labor units closed since 2024. The fight is whether federal policy or hospital economics drove the crisis.
Ozempic Could Treat Addiction. Doctors Aren't Sure Yet.
A Lancet trial slashed heavy drinking in patients on semaglutide. Addiction medicine wants it approved for alcohol use disorder — but researchers, patients, and courts all see different problems.
Massachusetts Drops Its 24-Week Abortion Limit
Healey signed away the state's 24-week limit. Physicians will now decide.
Trump Signed an Order to Cut Childhood Vaccines
A new executive order drops 7 diseases from the universal vaccine list and calls for splitting the MMR shot into three.
Oral Weight-Loss Pills Are Here. Now Comes the Debate.
Two oral weight-loss pills are on shelves. Doctors and insurers are arguing over who should take one.
Who Gets to Decide What's Safe in Your Food?
Kennedy wants all new food ingredients to clear the FDA before hitting shelves. The food industry says that would kill innovation — and skeptics say a gutted FDA can't enforce it anyway.
Trump's Personal Lawyer Is Now the Nation's Top Cop
Collins and Murkowski broke ranks. The Senate confirmed Blanche 50-49, and the fight over DOJ independence isn't over.
Why Spokane Burned
800 structures destroyed, 65,000 displaced — and three camps can't agree on the root cause.
ICE Is Detaining the Families of Active-Duty Troops
ICE has detained more than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty troops and deported at least 6. The administration says the law applies equally to everyone; critics say military service was always an exception.
FDA Approves the First mRNA Flu Vaccine
The FDA approved the first mRNA flu vaccine. Getting it covered this fall isn't guaranteed.
The First mRNA Flu Shot Is One FDA Decision Away
The FDA's verdict is due today on Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine. Scientists, the White House, and a paralyzed insurance system all see it differently.
Two People Died From Cyclospora. Nobody Agrees Why.
Eighteen thousand sick, two dead, 45 states. Nobody agrees on what broke down.
Measles Is at a 35-Year High. RFK Jr. Denies Blame.
America has 2,371 measles cases this year — the most since 1991 — and a fight over whether RFK Jr. is responsible.
Trump's Mail-Ballot Order Lands at the Supreme Court
States have until 4 p.m. today to respond to Trump's bid to enforce his mail-ballot executive order before November.
Nebraska Will Cut Medicaid Saturday. Who's Too Sick?
Medicaid work rules took effect today. Now it's a fight over who's actually too sick to comply.
A Federal Ban on Risky Virus Research Divides Scientists
Washington just banned risky pathogen experiments. Not all scientists think it makes us safer.
Trump Wants Kennedy to Cut Even More Childhood Vaccines
The WSJ reported Trump accused his health secretary of "the yips" for not cutting vaccines fast enough. A court already blocked Kennedy's first cuts — and measles cases just hit a 35-year high.