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Trump administration pauses some family planning grants as it investigates compliance with laws

The federal government has paused $27.5 million for organizations that provide family planning, contraception, cancer screenings and sexually transmitted infection services as it investigates whether they’re complying with the law. The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association says 16 organizations received notice Monday that funding is on hold. At least 11 Planned Parenthood Federation

States sue Trump administration for rescinding billions in health funding

A coalition of states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to cut $11 billion in federal funds that go toward COVID-19 initiatives and various public health projects across the country. Attorneys general and other officials from 23 states sued in federal court in Rhode Island. They include New York Attorney General Letitia

Here’s where jobs and programs are being cut at the nation’s top health agencies

Thousands of people responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, monitoring the safety of food and medicine, and administering health insurance programs for nearly half of the country were laid off Tuesday at the nation’s top health agencies. The moves will shrink the Department of Health and Human Services

FDA tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency’s leadership

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator was removed from his post Tuesday, part of sweeping cuts to the federal health workforce that have cleared out many of the nation’s top experts overseeing food, drugs, vaccines and products containing nicotine. The agency’s tobacco director, Brian King, notified his staff in an

There’s a new push to put whole milk back in school meals. Here’s what you should know

More than a dozen years after higher-fat milk was stripped from school meals to slow obesity in American kids and boost their health, momentum is growing to put it back. Federal lawmakers have revived bills that would allow whole and 2% milk to be served again in schools, in addition to the skim and low-fat

Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food

Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices come just days after President Donald Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other agencies throughout

Tears and tail wags: Inmates reunite with service dogs they raised

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Hugs, tears, barking and tail wagging abounded at San Quentin’s prison when two black Labradors reunited with the incarcerated men who helped raise them to be service dogs. The emotional reunion brought together Chase Benoit, Jared Hansen and the 2-year-old dogs they helped train: Wendel and Artemis. It was the

Thousands of workers at nation’s health agencies brace for mass layoffs

WASHINGTON (AP) — As they readied to leave work Monday, some workers at the Food and Drug Administration were told to pack their laptops and prepare for the possibility that they wouldn’t be back, according to an email obtained by The Associated Press. Nervous employees — roughly 82,000 across the nation’s public health agencies —

A stroke survivor speaks again with the help of an experimental brain-computer implant

Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time. Although it’s still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable to speak. A new study described testing the device on a 47-year-old woman with quadriplegia who couldn’t speak for 18 years

Scientists shielding farming from climate change need more public funding. But they’re getting less

Erin McGuire spent years cultivating fruits and vegetables like onions, peppers and tomatoes as a scientist and later director of a lab at the University of California-Davis. She collaborated with hundreds of people to breed drought-resistant varieties, develop new ways to cool fresh produce and find ways to make more money for small farmers at

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Trump administration pauses some family planning grants as it investigates compliance with laws

States sue Trump administration for rescinding billions in health funding

Here’s where jobs and programs are being cut at the nation’s top health agencies

FDA tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency’s leadership

There’s a new push to put whole milk back in school meals. Here’s what you should know

Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food

Tears and tail wags: Inmates reunite with service dogs they raised

Thousands of workers at nation’s health agencies brace for mass layoffs

A stroke survivor speaks again with the help of an experimental brain-computer implant

Scientists shielding farming from climate change need more public funding. But they’re getting less