President Trump will undergo his annual physical on Friday in what could provide a new snapshot of his health — if he releases the results.
Why it matters: The findings from Friday's exam can only be shared publicly with Trump's consent, per KFF Health News. The exam could renew calls that Trump faced during his first term and on the campaign trail to release medical records demonstrating his physical and cognitive wellbeing.
Egg prices rose to a record high of $6.23 per dozen in March, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Thursday that pre-dates a recent decline in retail prices.
The big picture: President Trump claimed credit last month for a drop in wholesale egg prices, as bird flu outbreaks that had forced producers to cull millions of chickens and sparked shortages began to wane — and his administration moved to tackle high prices by boosting egg imports.
Siemens executive Agustín Escobar and his family were among six people to die when a helicopter crashed in the Hudson River, between New York and New Jersey, on Thursday, the company confirmed in an email.
The latest: The Spanish executive, his wife, Mercè Camprubí Montal, and his children — ages 4, 5 and 11 — were aboard the helicopter when it crashed. The pilot, who also died in the crash, was not immediately identified.
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said it would begin phasing out animal testing requirements for antibody therapies and other drugs and move toward AI-based models and other tools it deems "human-relevant."
Why it matters: The agency is trying to reaffirm its role as a leader in modern regulatory science amid DOGE-directed cuts that have rattled drug developers and investors and stoked concerns about timely product reviews.
The Department of Health and Human Services needs to identify and create a formal way to coordinate its drug shortage response with other federal stakeholders, and it's unclear what it plans to do to make that happen, per a new report from a government watchdog.
Why it matters: Drug shortages have been disruptive, increasingly long-lasting and in some cases life-threatening in recent years. Industry often points to a need for policy interventions including improved coordination from federal agencies that are part of HHS.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s stated goal of ending what he calls a chronic disease epidemic is in conflict with some of the Trump administration's early regulatory rollbacks and DOGE-directed cuts, experts tell Axios.
Why it matters: Some 129 million Americans suffer from diabetes, hypertension, arthritis and other chronic diseases, with tens of millions more expected to develop chronic illness in the next five years. A disproportionate number are low-income or otherwise disadvantaged.
