Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is stepping down after a turbulent 13-month term marked by organizational upheaval, controversies over drug approvals and tensions with the White House.
Kyle Diamantas, the agency's deputy commissioner for food, will serve as acting commissioner, President Trump posted on Truth Social.
Weight-loss drugs are reshaping bridal retail — and David's Bridal is responding to brides' growing "fit anxiety" with a new guarantee.
Why it matters:GLP-1 medications are changing how consumers shop for wedding attire, forcing retailers to adapt to rapidly shifting body sizes, compressed shopping timelines and a surge in last-minute alterations.
The leading chatbots mostly avoid giving dangerous answers to prompts about suicide, but still struggle when mental health risks show up subtly or unfold over long conversations, according to new research from Seattle-based Mpathic.
Why it matters: People are increasingly turning to AI systems for emotional support in conversations where models can sound supportive while missing serious risk — and where mounting lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny are pushing labs to prove their bots are safe enough.
Nurses are using AI less frequently than physicians, and many feel like they're being excluded from decision-making, according to survey data from scientific publisher Elsevier shown first to Axios.
Why it matters: Nurses are often where the rubber meets the road in health care. Withouttheir buy-in and input, hospitals could spend on medical tools that don't actually help staff or patients.
Sweeping changes that congressional Republicans made to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid are starting to take effect, fueling an election-year blame game over coverage losses.
Why it matters: A rise in the uninsured rate will put more stress on the health system and ratchet up concerns about health costs in an election year where affordability is voters' biggest concern.
Tick bites are sending a record rate of people to the ER for this time of year, according to new CDC data.
Why it matters: "Tick season is here and these tiny biters can make you seriously sick," says Alison Hinckley, epidemiologist with the CDC, in a statement.
The Supreme Court on Monday extended a freeze on new restrictions on mifepristone, allowing the widely used abortion pill to continue being prescribed by mail.
Why it matters: The extension, which runs through 5pm ET Thursday, provides a reprieve for pharmacies, telehealth companies and clinicians caught up in the latest legal tussle over accessing the pill.
Stop us if you've heard this one before, but fears about the global spread of a frightening virus are catching Wall Street's attention.
Why it matters: The hantavirus cruise ship outbreak has reignited concerns about a global health crisis — sparking a brief jump for vaccine stocks, even as experts say it's nothing like the COVID pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke its silence on the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak over the weekend and began to evacuate 17 Americans from the Canary Islands to a special treatment center at the University of Nebraska.
Why it matters: Public health experts had criticized the agency for not updating the public until Saturday or sending its scientists to investigate, as it has in previous deadly disease outbreaks.
The Food and Drug Administration was supposed to be the dull and predictable part of President Trump's health bureaucracy.
Instead, it's become the soap opera whose cliffhangers leave entire industries in suspense — most recently Friday's drama over reports that commissioner Marty Makary was about to be booted out.
More older Americans are falling into poverty in suburbs built for middle-class stability.
Why it matters:Suburbs lack the transit, housing and services that help cushion poverty in cities, leaving millions of seniors at risk of isolation in the neighborhoods they helped build.
