Note that some links may require registration or subscription.
Sources say the White House is preparing an executive order to fire thousands of staffers from FDA, CDC, and other federal health agencies. (Wall Street Journal via MSN)
In the meantime, health agencies have been told to rank employees in their probationary periods, with up to 40% ordered to be marked as non-mission critical. (Washington Post)
A federal judge paused the Trump administration’s buyout offer for federal workers. (USA Today)
To lead its pandemic response office, the Trump administration selected former top U.S. health official and bird flu expert Gerald Parker, DVM, PhD. (CBS News)
Users searching the term “abortion” on CDC’s website are now directed to search for the term “adoption.” (The Hill)
Kanye West said he has been diagnosed with autism. (The Guardian)
In other celebrity news, Ozzy Osbourne said he can no longer walk due to his Parkinson’s disease, but plans to reunite with Black Sabbath this summer. (People)
Research from Canada linked cannabis use disorder with a higher risk of death. (JAMA Network Open)
Daily electrical stimulation of certain nerves in the spinal cord enabled three people with spinal muscular atrophy to increase leg muscle strength and walk farther. (Nature Medicine)
A start-up called LinusBio launched a test it says can help physicians rule out autism in children using a strand of hair. (NBC News)
The CDC reported that with the exception of Black mothers, maternal death rates are falling.
CDC studies in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report detailed the health affects of the recent wildfires in Los Angeles and the 2023 wildfires in Hawaii.
And the agency briefly posted, then deleted, data on the spread of bird flu from cats to people. (New York Times)
Scientists say this is how to cook the perfect boiled egg. (AP)
Three dozen live giant beetles were discovered inside multiple packages of Japanese snacks. (ABC7)
Susan Wood, PhD, who resigned in protest from the FDA in 2005 over political interference in the approval of over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill, died of a brain tumor at age 66. (New York Times)
The CDC is asking U.S. physicians to be on the look out for travel-related Ebola cases amid the outbreak in Uganda.
Dozens of clinical trials abroad testing drugs or implanted devices have been frozen by the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development, leaving patients stranded. (New York Times)
The World Health Organization is warning of a dire health crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the threat of infectious diseases has multiplied.
Please enable JavaScript to view the