Democratic leaders are deploying a series of "show votes" to put Republicans in the hot seat and draw attention to their divisions on hot-button issues, including the blocked vote on IVF last week.
The big picture: Democrats are focusing their attention on birth control, IVF and Supreme Court ethics — all of which are vulnerabilities for the GOP ahead of the November elections.
A small but detectable amount of H5N1 bird flu survived a standard pasteurization method on milk infected with high concentrations of the virus, National Institutes of Health scientists wrote Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Why it matters: While evidence continues to indicate that the commercial milk supply is safe, the more virus there is in milk, the longer it takes to kill all of it, public health officials warn.
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on Congress Monday to require social media platforms to display warning labels alerting users of the potential harms the platforms pose to teens' mental health.
Why it matters: Murthy's call for congressional action comes amid rising awareness of the dangers of social media for young people, as platforms try to negate some of the harms while facing lawsuits for their roles in the youth mental health crisis.
Congressional Republicans are calling for a reorganization of the National Institutes of Health that would strip its authority over "gain of function" research and freeze the experiments until new reforms are established.
Why it matters: The draft plan feeds a narrative dating from the pandemic that portrays the government's health agencies as having lost the public's trust and could offer a blueprint for a GOP administration and Congress.
It's Pride month, a good time to share this reminder: It's natural to be queer in the animal world.
Why it matters: Looking at animals strictly through a heteronormative lens has long limited scientific understanding and contributed to the othering of members of the LGBTQ+ community, per science experts.
