Vaccination coverage among American kindergartners decreased for all reported vaccines during the 2024-2025 school year, according to data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Why it matters: The drop coincides with measles cases hitting a 33-year high in the U.S., while Trump's Health Department secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., upends long-standing vaccine norms.
President Trump on Thursday said he demanded commitments from 17 big drugmakers to lower their U.S. prices by committing to a "most favored nation" policy he laid out in a May executive order.
Why it matters: The move raises the stakes for pharmaceutical manufacturers as they brace for threatened tariffs on the sector.
President Trump will revive the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools, which was phased out more than a decade ago, a White House officialconfirmed to Axios on Thursday.
The big picture: The test — featuring challenges like a one-mile run, pull-ups and the sit-and-reach — was once a rite of passage for America's youth.
Providers of "direct primary care" who charge patients a monthly fee for unlimited visits and workups are poised to become big winners from the new Republican tax-and-spending law.
Why it matters: The law for the first time allows patients to tap their health savings accounts for the concierge-like primary care arrangements, and lets employers extend both benefits, in the belief they're more efficient than the traditional fee-for-service system.
Leading tech and health companies including Amazon, Apple, Google, and OpenAI committed on Wednesday to working with the Trump administration to make electronic patient records more accessible across the health care system.
Why it matters: Patient health information is now scattered across multiple disconnected systems, leading to inefficiencies, medical errors and wasted time and money.
High Noon is voluntarily recalling select packs of its vodka seltzer that contain cans of Celsius energy drinks that were mistakenly filled with alcohol, the company said in a recall notice.
Why it matters: Consuming the affected products "will result in unintentional alcohol ingestion," the company said.
