Month: April 2025

Health News

988 suicide prevention service for LGBTQ+ youth would be eliminated under leaked budget proposal

The preliminary memo, dated April 10, previews the administration’s possible plans to slash discretionary federal health spending and rework health agencies as President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. consolidate many functions of the US Department of Health and Human Services into the Administration for a Healthy America, or AHA. If the […]

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US may have millions more measles cases over next 25 years if childhood vaccination rates continue to decline, study says

Measles could become endemic in the United States if routine childhood vaccination rates continue to decline, with up to 51 million illnesses over a 25-year period, according to a new study. Although the disease is endemic in some other countries – meaning it happens regularly within an area or community – it was declared eliminated […]

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Nearly half of Americans live in an area with a failing grade for air pollution, and the problem is only getting worse

Air pollution levels keep getting worse for more people in the US, according to a new report, and experts say the Trump administration’s proposed deregulation plans will make it even harder for people to get clean air. Almost half of everyone who lives in the United States breathes unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to […]

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Ob/gyns in states with abortion bans face risks, but new study shows that most stayed after Dobbs

Doctors across the United States who provide obstetrics and gynecology care have been confronted with new restrictions and uncertainties – and sometimes significant legal risks – that continue to unfold in the three years since the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision revoked the federal right to an abortion. But new research shows that ob/gyns didn’t […]

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Internal Trump administration document reveals massive budget cut proposal for federal health agencies

The preliminary memo, sent from White House budget officials to the Department of Health and Human Services, previews the administration’s plans to slash discretionary federal health spending and rework health agencies in the image of President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s “Make America Healthy Again” mandate. The document, dated April 10, […]