Rick Macias of Kansas City, Kansas, came to Washington, D.C., last month with ADAPT, a disability rights organization, to speak out against Medicaid cuts. Jemal Countess/Getty Images hide caption
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picked eight new members for a panel that helps set national vaccine policies. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
Republican Senate leaders met with President Donald Trump to discuss Trump's "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" on June 4. Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. (center), speaks alongside Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., (left) and Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, outside of the West Wing of the White House. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Adriana Smith is a patient at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta. Emergency complications early in her pregnancy led to brain death, but she remains on life support as the pregnancy continues, according to her family. Her case has become a symbol of the medical and ethical issues stemming from a Georgia law that bans most abortions and confers fetal "personhood" rights.
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Controversy grows over case of brain-dead pregnant woman kept on life support
The Food and Drug Administration is taking a new approach to evaluating and approving COVID vaccines. Deb Cohn-Orbach/Universal Images Group Editorial/Getty Images hide caption
A stricter FDA policy for COVID vaccines could limit future access
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been carrying out President Trump's vision to shrink government. On Monday, they announced an executive order aimed at drug prices. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption
RFK Jr. got rid of an ‘alphabet soup’ of health agencies. Now, Congress gets a say
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-VA is pushing for CDC's FOIA team to be restored, after the jobs were eliminated in the recent HHS layoffs. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption
An insurance agent talks with clients inside a shopping center in Miami, on Dec. 5, 2023. Once someone enrolls in an Affordable Care Act plan, they can get help with sticky insurance issues from caseworkers at the federal government. Many caseworkers were cut in the recent round of federal layoffs. Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption
Medicare negotiations on drug prices can happen sooner for pills than many drugs that are injected. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
An advisory committee of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is set to meet Tuesday to discuss vaccines for RSV, COVID and others. Jeff Amy/AP hide caption
After delays, first vaccine advisory meeting under RFK, Jr. set to start
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall speaks during inauguration ceremonies on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala. on Jan. 16, 2023. Butch Dill/AP hide caption
Judge rules Alabama can't prosecute groups helping patients get abortions elsewhere
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Judge says Alabama can’t prosecute those who help people get abortions in other states
A 17-year-old transgender boy from the Chicago suburbs was in the process of scheduling surgery at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, but that stopped after Lurie paused surgeries in light of an executive order from the White House. Manuel Martinez/WBEZ hide caption
What happens when a Chicago children's hospital bows to pressure to stop gender-affirming care
Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Craig Hudson/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
At the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (MAP), physicians use telehealth to prescribe and mail pills to people who live in states that ban or restrict abortion.
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President Donald Trump speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2025. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
People hold up signs before Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally Nov. 4, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Some Trump voters want him to rein in health care costs. It's unclear if he will
Funding is stalled for National Institutes of Health research grants. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Dr. Mehmet Oz, nominated to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said in an ethics filing that he will cut ties with several companies and divest a range of stocks. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images hide caption
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, (center), flanked by Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., the ranking member (left), and Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., (right). House Republicans work on a budget plan to advance President Trump's priorities, including $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 13. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
A homemade sign at a rally in Union Square in New York City on Saturday. Various hospitals across the country curbed gender-affirming care for people under 19 after President Trump's executive order. Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
From left: U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, President Donald Trump, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican from West Virginia, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, speak to the media on Jan. 8, 2025. Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
The law went into effect Jan. 1 and says youth up to 21 or foster youth up to 26 should be connected to health care before or soon after they leave prisons, detention centers or jail. Oona Zenda/KFF Health News hide caption
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has 30 days to present a plan on how to implement President Trump's executive order on transgender people in the military. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke during a hearing with the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Capitol Hill on July 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption