Thousands of employees returned to the FDA's headquarters Monday to find overflowing parking lots, long security lines and makeshift office spaces without chairs and other basic supplies. The FDA is the latest agency scrambling to meet the Trump administration's return-to-office mandate, part of a flurry of actions — including firings and buyouts — intended to radically shrink the federal workforce. Monday was the first day that all rank-and-file FDA staffers were required to report to offices, including the agency's 130-acre campus just outside Washington.
The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 259, with 36 cases reported over the last three days, according to new data released Friday. Almost all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or in individuals whose vaccination status is unknown. Two cases have occurred in persons vaccinated with two doses, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Breakthrough infections, when a vaccinated person is infected are rare, as the measles vaccine provides up to 97% protection after 2 doses.
President Donald Trump abruptly yanked his nominee to head the CDC on Thursday morning shortly before a scheduled Senate confirmation hearing. A source familiar with the discussions said Trump pulled David Weldon's nomination because he did not have the votes to be confirmed.
A federal judge has effectively ended the ability of compounding pharmacies to make their own copies of Eli Lilly's weight loss and diabetes drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro. In a sealed decision filed late Wednesday, Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas declined to issue an injunction to stop the FDA from declaring there was no longer a shortage of the medicines' active ingredient, tirzepatide.
Lawmakers and health experts are sounding the alarm after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued in an opinion piece that vitamin A and nutrition, instead of vaccines, will help stop the spread of measles.
A recent study has revealed that an aspirin a day may stop cancer from spreading. In 2025, over 2 million new cancer cases are expected in the U.S., with more than 618,000 deaths—about 1,700 per day—according to the American Cancer Society. The research, conducted by scientists at the University of Cambridge in England, discovered the common drug could reduce metastasis—the spread of cancer cells from the original tumor to other parts of the body—by stimulating the immune system.