The big picture: The New Orleans-based U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor's ruling that put in jeopardy coverage for certain cancer screenings, behavioral counseling, HIV prevention and other services recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
President Biden on Mondaynominated National Cancer Institute director Monica Bertagnolli to be the next leader of the National Institutes of Health, moving to fill a key federal health opening that's been vacant for a year and a half.
The big picture: NIH has been without a political leader since longtime director Francis Collins stepped down in 2021, and the agency is facing intensifying criticism over its stewardship of coronavirus research, lagging efforts to study long COVID, and the review process for its research grants.
Promising clinical trial results from another new Alzheimer's drug haven't put to bed questions about how much the treatments actually benefit patients, and whether their strong points outweigh their safety risks.
Why it matters: Preliminary data for Eli Lilly's donanemab make potentially the best case so far that scientists have found a drug that slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease, a condition with no cure that affects about 50 million people worldwide.
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who's running for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, said Sunday it's "not realistic" for candidates to pledge a federal abortion ban.
Driving the news: CBS News' Margaret Brennan noted to Haley during their interview that Republican 2024 rival Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) supports a 20-week federal abortion ban and would sign such a bill into law if elected.
Planned Parenthood is calling for the major reform of the federal judiciary less than a year after the fall of Roe v. Wade, including expanding the Supreme Court and adding term limits.
Driving the news: The organization is alsodemanding an end to single-judge divisions, such as the Amarillo division in the Northern Texas District Court, where its sole judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, issued a ruling halting the Food and Drug Administration's approval of a widely used abortion pill.
