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Devex Newswire: U.S. Congress Gives Aid Supporters $50 Billion Boost
by Anna GawelThe funding bill would provide some $50 billion for U.S. foreign assistance programs in fiscal year 2026
NPR
Marrying for Health Insurance? The ACA Cost Crisis Forces Some Drastic Choices
by Selena Simmons-DuffinEnhanced subsidies that made plans affordable for many people expired at the end of 2025 and Congress failed to extend them before the 2026 plan year
BBC
Are You Dead?: The Viral Chinese App for Young People Living Alone
by Stephen McDonellThe concept is simple. You need to check in with it every two days—clicking a large button—to confirm that you are alive
New York Times
EPA to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
by Maxine JoselowIn a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives
NPR
Why is the United States Pulling Out of 31 UN Groups? And What’s the Impact?
by Gabrielle Emanuel and Fatma TanisPresident Trump's executive order to withdraw the United States from 66 international organizations, agencies, and commissions has global impacts
New York Times
“Chinese Peptides” Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World
by Jasmine SunThe gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the FDA
New York Times
Kennedy Flips Food Pyramid to Emphasize Red Meat and Whole Milk
by Alice Callahan and Dani BlumThe Trump administration released new dietary guidelines on Wednesday, pushing Americans to prioritize protein and cut back on added sugars
NBC News
CDC Overhauls Childhood Vaccine Schedule to Resemble Denmark in Unprecedented Move
by Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Erika Edwards, and Mustafa FattahThe new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18 previously on the schedule
Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
HHS Recommends Home HPV Testing For Women For the First Time
by Liz SzaboThe new guidelines are geared toward women at average risk of cervical cancer, which was diagnosed in more than 13,000 U.S. women last year
New York Times
RFK Jr. Likely to Swap U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Denmark’s
by Apoorva MandavilliA Danish health official found the idea baffling, saying the United States was getting “crazier and crazier in public health”
Devex
State Department Scrambles to Rebuild Foreign Aid Workforce
by Elissa Miolene“What we’re seeing anecdotally is a recreation of the things that we just tore down,” says Rohit Nepal, the Department of State vice president
Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
CDC Awards $1.6 Million for Hepatitis B Vaccine Study by Controversial Danish Researchers
by Liz SzaboThe CDC is paying the University of Southern Denmark to conduct a single-blind clinical trial of the hepatitis B vaccine in newborns in Guinea-Bissau