News for May 1, 2025

Texas lawmakers may need to act soon or 1.8 million children and pregnant women could lose their current Medicaid health plan and be moved to different insurers.

HHS issued a review of pediatric gender care that questions the evidence for transition-related treatment for minors and breaks with the views of major U.S. medical groups.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is asking the CDC to create new measles treatment guidance using drugs and vitamins, even as the agency still says vaccination is the best way to prevent the disease.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s health department plans to require placebo trials for all new vaccines, a move experts say could slow access and raise ethical concerns.

HHS has moved $500 million from COVID-19 vaccine research to a single flu vaccine project, bypassing the usual scientific review process.

Boston Medical Center Health System is renaming two hospitals it now runs to bring them under one shared brand.

President Donald Trump canceled a federal agreement meant to fix raw sewage problems in Lowndes County, Alabama, calling it “illegal DEI.”

Florida executed Army veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson for the 1998 killings of his girlfriend and her three children.