President Donald Trump cranes his head to listen during a cabinet meeting at the White House in February. Also pictured, L-R, are Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Plumpy'Nut bars manufactured at the Edesia Nutrition plant in Rhode Island. Has the "ready-to-use therapeutic food" — credited with an 80 to 90% recovery rate among malnourished children — been caught up in the U.S. aid cuts? Gabrielle Emanuel/NPR hide caption
Danielle Waterfield was fired, rehired and fired again from her job at CHIPS for America, part of the Department of Commerce. Now, she fears her health insurance was cut off weeks ago, even though she was told otherwise. Andrea Hsu/NPR hide caption
Angeline Murimirwa of Zimbabwe has really racked up kudos for her work as head of CAMFED, a charity that has enabled millions of girls in five African countries to stay in school — and thrive with the help of mentors. Murimirwa is one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2025. Above: She accepts an award at Rihanna's 3rd Annual Diamond Ball in 2017. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images hide caption
Escherichia coli or E. coli is a part of family of bacteria that are commonly found in the human gut. Scientists found that a toxin the bacteria release is linked to some cases of colorectal cancer. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Libra/Getty Images hide caption
Is everything a sign of ADHD? Sudowoodo/Getty Images hide caption
The Department of Health and Humans Services changed course and will continue funding for the Women's Health Initiative. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption
Elon Musk walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn with U.S. President Donald Trump on March 9. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has asked for major cuts to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a foreign aid agency started by George W. Bush. Samuel Corum/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-VA is pushing for CDC's FOIA team to be restored, after the jobs were eliminated in the recent HHS layoffs. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption
Attendance has more than quadrupled since the free ROMEO lunches for older men started in Harpswell, Maine, last fall. Tom Mahoney, left, directs other volunteers at a recent lunch when pizza was on the menu. Bill Snellings hide caption
A layer of smog lingers above downtown Los Angeles in 2024. Millions of Americans are still breathing in unhealthy air, despite long-term progress toward cleaning up many sources of pollution, according to the 2025 State of the Air report. ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An Eli Lilly & Co. Zepbound injection pen. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Bloomberg hide caption
Federal funding to support collection of new research data for the Women's Health Initiative will end in September 2025. Stefania Pelfini/Getty Images/Moment RF hide caption
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya (right), accompanied by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (left) and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary (center), speaks during a news conference Tuesday at the Health and Human Services Department on in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption
A KFF poll found parents who believed a false claim about measles were more likely to skip or delay childhood vaccinations. wildpixel/Getty Images hide caption
Who wants to live forever? Hubert Vestil/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images/DANIEL ROLAND/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Iceland. Fish and other aquatic creatures are increasingly affected by pharmaceutical pollution in the waterways they call home; now, scientists are trying to figure out how that might affect their behavior. Cavan Images/Getty Images hide caption
An insurance agent talks with clients inside a shopping center in Miami, on Dec. 5, 2023. Once someone enrolls in an Affordable Care Act plan, they can get help with sticky insurance issues from caseworkers at the federal government. Many caseworkers were cut in the recent round of federal layoffs. Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption
Federal layoffs affected teams at CDC that research injuries — including car crashes — to understand how to prevent them. Car crashes are the second leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 12. Kyle Mazza/Anadolu/Getty Images hide caption
Dr. Olena Weaver of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston looks at mammogram imagery. The regular mammogram on the left shows a woman with dense breast tissue; on the right is a contrast-enhanced mammogram. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images hide caption
Oprah, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, and the Make America Healthy Again movement. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for THR hide caption
For more than two months, Mary Mayongana, 42, hasn't been able to consistently take her HIV medication. She says she feels weak and has developed an itchy rash. Ben de la Cruz/NPR hide caption
