News for April 4, 2025

Minnesota lawmakers are weighing a bill backed by Sen. Julia Coleman to ban lead and arsenic in tampons and require more label disclosure for menstrual products.

Tiny Tots U Learning Academy in Texas is dealing with a measles outbreak among young children as the state’s case count nears 500.

The Trump administration decided not to move forward with a plan to let Medicare and Medicaid cover weight loss drugs.

A Venezuelan man was temporarily released by ICE so he could reunite with his sick brother and move forward with a planned kidney donation.

Hailey Okula, a nursing influencer and ER nurse, died after a rare childbirth complication soon after giving birth to her first child.

Idaho prison officials, led by warden Tim Richardson, obtained lethal injection drugs in secret roadside meetings as the state tried to keep its execution supply hidden.

Francius Marganda was sentenced to 18 years in jail in Brooklyn for running a $24.5 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 200 people.

A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump administration health funding cuts, and Minnesota officials said the ruling helps, but the fight is not over.

Senate Republicans, led by John Thune, moved ahead on a budget plan despite party worries about how it would handle Trump’s tax cuts and possible Medicaid cuts.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said some Health and Human Services staff fired in a big workforce cut were mistakenly let go and are being asked to return.

The FDA’s vaccine division is losing more senior leaders after Dr. Peter Marks left, raising fears that approvals for vaccines and other medical products will slow down.

Eli Lilly boss David Ricks says Trump’s new tariffs mark a turning point in US policy and could hurt drug research and investment.

Dr Mehmet Oz has been confirmed by the US Senate to lead the agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid.

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey joined local activists to protest President Donald Trump’s order that has led UPMC to limit some gender-affirming care for patients under 19.

Layoffs ordered under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have disrupted FDA bird flu testing work and forced some labs to pause or close.

Three pedestrians, including Christopher Cramp and David Cramp, were killed when an Amtrak train struck them near Bristol Station in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, causing service to stop for hours.