A wave of new state laws is making fertility preservation procedures — from egg freezing to the emerging ovarian tissue freezing technology — a covered benefit for cancer patients.
Why it matters: Chemotherapy and radiation can cause reproductive problems, but fertility preservation procedures are costly and can be left out of cancer treatment conversations.
Twelve people were killed, and at least 40 people were injured after shootings marred three different high school events in two states over the weekend.
The big picture: The shootings mark another devastating weekend in America, and underscore the pervasiveness of gun violence across the country.
About 600 Centers for Disease Control employees in offices dealing with health statistics, injury and violence prevention, congressional outreach and human resources are out of work as a result of the Trump administration's mass layoffs of agency workers late Friday, sources familiar said.
Why it matters: While the administration has since rescinded more than half of the approximately 1,300 termination notices it sent, the upheaval from the layoffs that are still taking effect could undermine efforts to protect public health.
When President Trump announced a new deal Friday to lower prescription drug costs, it was the clearest sign yet that he'd paused his commerce secretary's push to slap 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals that aren't manufactured in the U.S.
Why it matters: Prescription drug policy and tariffs are big priorities of Trump's administration. But after the two issues collided in a conflicting series of White House messages recently, Trump set aside the tariffs idea, which could have made drugs more expensive for many Americans.
