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President Donald Trump answers a reporter's question during an event in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Washington.

Trump tells drug companies to drop prices

President Donald Trump answers a reporter's question during an event in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Washington.

May 12, 2025, 3:00pm Business

President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits down the road over what the government will pay. Read story

FILE- Bottles of medicine ride on a belt at a mail-in pharmacy warehouse in Florence, N.J., July 10, 2018. President Donald Trump’s plan to change the pricing model for some medications is facing fierce criticism from the pharmaceutical industry before he’s even signed an executive order he says will lower the costs of drugs.

Trump signs executive order setting 30-day deadline for drugmakers to lower prescription drug costs

FILE- Bottles of medicine ride on a belt at a mail-in pharmacy warehouse in Florence, N.J., July 10, 2018. President Donald Trump’s plan to change the pricing model for some medications is facing fierce criticism from the pharmaceutical industry before he’s even signed an executive order he says will lower the costs of drugs.

May 12, 2025, 8:40am Health

President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits over what the government will pay. Read story

Boxes for the medications Wegovy and Zepbound are arranged for a photograph in California on Thursday, May 8, 2025.

Zepbound beats Wegovy for weight loss in first head-to-head trial of blockbuster drugs

Boxes for the medications Wegovy and Zepbound are arranged for a photograph in California on Thursday, May 8, 2025.

May 12, 2025, 8:27am Business

People taking Eli Lilly’s obesity drug, Zepbound, lost nearly 50% more weight than those using rival Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy in the first head-to-head study of the blockbuster medications. Read story

In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 photo, two residents of the Rainier School, a state-run care facility in Buckley, Wash., for the developmentally disabled, watch television. In the past seven decades, the Rainier School has changed from a massive institution with almost 2,000 patients, to one that now intimately cares for 350. (AP Photo/Ted S.

Fight to close $52M Rainier School for adults with disabilities is over. What’s next?

In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 photo, two residents of the Rainier School, a state-run care facility in Buckley, Wash., for the developmentally disabled, watch television. In the past seven decades, the Rainier School has changed from a massive institution with almost 2,000 patients, to one that now intimately cares for 350. (AP Photo/Ted S.

May 12, 2025, 8:20am Health

A heated debate concerning the future of the Rainier School in Buckley has winded down for now. Read story

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Experts: Kennedy’s plan to find autism’s cause is unrealistic

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

May 11, 2025, 1:17pm Health

For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find autism’s causes in a few months is jarring — and unrealistic. Read story

In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023, in Rockville, Maryland. A Massachusetts appeals court temporarily blocked a Texas-based federal judgeǃÙs ruling that suspended the FDAǃÙs approval of the abortion drug Mifepristone, which is part of a two-drug regimen to induce an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy in combination with the drug Misoprostol.

Despite historic indictment, doctors will keep mailing abortion pills across state lines

In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023, in Rockville, Maryland. A Massachusetts appeals court temporarily blocked a Texas-based federal judgeǃÙs ruling that suspended the FDAǃÙs approval of the abortion drug Mifepristone, which is part of a two-drug regimen to induce an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy in combination with the drug Misoprostol.

May 11, 2025, 6:00am Health

When the news broke on Jan. 31 that a New York physician had been indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the network of doctors and medical clinics who engage in similar work. Read story

FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010.

Cancer before age 50 is increasing. A new study looks at which types

FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010.

May 11, 2025, 6:00am Health

Cancer before age 50 is rare, but increasing, in the United States and researchers want to know why. Read story

A welcome sign stands outside the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. (U.S.

Death is the only winner so far in Camp Lejeune litigation

A welcome sign stands outside the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. (U.S.

May 11, 2025, 5:08am Health

Camp Lejeune’s victims are turning into ghosts haunting the federal judges and attorneys struggling with a flood of claims and lawsuits over harm from contaminated drinking water at the Marine Corps base in North Carolina from the 1950s to the 1980s. Read story