The Trump administration said it's reversing course on a plan to end funding for a decades-long study of women's health after outcry from the research community.
Why it matters: The Women's Health Initiative was threatened by funding cuts to clinical studies aimed at reducing cancer rates or studying hormone therapy in menopause. Despite the reprieve, researchers remain fearful about its future.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s push to collect troves of personal medical data to find the cause of autism has researchers and patient advocates questioning whether his plan to cast a wide net makes it easier to pick and choose information that supports certain theories — including the debunked idea that vaccines cause autism.
The big picture: The National Institutes of Health has long pushed to include moredata collected during health care delivery in its research. Kennedy would put a new twist on that, by combining federal health data, medical records, insurance claims and readouts from wearables into what Health and Human Services calls a "real-world data platform."
Authorities arrested over 100 suspected undocumented immigrants in a federal raid on a Colorado nightclub that saw guns and drugs including methamphetamine and pink cocaine seized early Sunday, officials said.
The big picture: President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi hailed the raid on the Colorado Springs club, some 70 miles south of Denver, as the administration faces criticism over the arrest of a judge in an immigration case and U.S. citizen children being sent to Honduras with their deported mothers.
Former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins said in an interview broadcast Sunday he retired last month because his position became "untenable" under the second Trump administration's actions.
Why it matters: The noted geneticist's departure occurred after DOGE-driven cuts were announced for research funding and probationary workers' contracts were terminated, and Collins told CBS News that he and other scientists were "not allowed to speak — in any kind of scientific meeting or public setting."
