President Trump "exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health and is fully fit," according to White House physician Capt. Sean Barbabella. The White House released Trump's three-page medical report Sunday morning following the president's annual physical examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday.
The CDC in its latest weekly update reported 105 more measles cases, pushing the national total to 712, which is more than double the cases reported for all of 2024. Seven outbreaks have been reported across the country, and 93% of the cases reported so far are part of outbreaks. Infections have been reported from 25 jurisdictions, 3 more than last week. Among the sick patients, 97% were unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s visit to the FDA Friday was supposed to introduce him as a trusted leader to agency employees. It did anything but. Over the course of 40 minutes, Kennedy, in largely off-the-cuff remarks, asserted that the "Deep State" is real, referenced past CIA experiments on human mind control and accused the employees he was speaking to of becoming a "sock puppet" of the industries they regulate.
The layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services included dozens of employees at the Health Resources and Services Administration who were working on the technology upgrade, which has been years in the making and was set to launch next month. As many as 1,200 of the roughly 1,400 health centers were set to go live with the upgrade on May 31 — a milestone that is unlikely to be met, given the number of critical federal staff who were fired.
A simulation model found that nationwide implementation of medically tailored meal programs could save about $32 billion in health care costs in the first year alone, researchers say. The program would also prevent more than 3.5 million hospitalizations a year related to complications from diabetes, heart disease and cancer, researchers said.