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The announcement blindsided HIV nonprofits, public health advocates and doctors who are scrambling to help patients find coverage and stay on medications.

The doctors are essentially ignoring the agency’s approach and relying on recommendations made by the AAP, which mirror the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance from early 2025. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

One day after slashing hundreds of millions in federal grants that supported mental health and addiction care, the Trump administration is backtracking and plans to restore the funds, according to two officials with knowledge of the decision. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, sent hundreds of letters late Tuesday to nonprofits informing them their grants had been cut because their programs “no longer effectuates” the agency’s priorities. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Chinese crackdowns on chemicals used to make illicit fentanyl may have played a significant role in the sharp reduction of U.S. overdose deaths, according to research published Thursday. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The potential has ushered in a wave of research that includes whether the drugs help veterans with moderate to severe drinking problems, diabetic patients who smoke and people addicted to opioids, among others. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The paper, published in JAMA Health Forum, highlights Hollywood’s outsize cultural influence and the common use of benzodiazepines, a class of anxiety-relieving medications that can cause physical dependence and agonizing withdrawal symptoms. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Children born to mothers infected with covid-19 during pregnancy faced a higher risk of autism, along with other neurological differences such as delays in speech and motor development, according to a study published Thursday. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

An HIV outbreak in Indiana a decade ago showed the urgency of clean syringe exchanges. @davidovalle.bsky.social went to that community to report on the stakes of Trump's crackdown on these programs. Powerful photography from Maxine Wallace too www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...

Trump’s travel ban is devastating Cuban American families by cutting off the already slow visa pipeline that allows relatives to reunite after years apart. It's also amplified tensions within Florida’s Cuban American community over Trump's immigration policies www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Trump's post jolted the cannabis industry, sending stocks soaring Monday and raising hopes that the president will take a permissive approach to marijuana. It also drew concerns from researchers who say that CBD’s much hyped health benefits remain unproven www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

NEW: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

NEW: Trump officials to link covid shots to child deaths, alarming career scientists www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... via @rachelroubein.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social @lenasun.bsky.social

Confusion is rippling through the health care system as pharmacies and doctors try to adjust to providing a vaccine that is no longer broadly recommended. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

BREAKING: Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

NEW: The CDC has been in crisis for months. After the firing of its director, resignations of senior leaders, staff + experts are bracing for what could be death knell for public health credibility. Me + @laurenweberhp.bsky.social + @davidovalle.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Budget cuts could affect peer support workers, adding further pressure on a profession already struggling because of workers’ concerns about low wages, uneven training and uncertainty about these employees’ roles within the addiction care system. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Harm reduction groups worry Trump’s order signals broader moves to sideline their work — and that states will slash funding to follow his lead. Some fear simply being labeled harm reduction might imperil funding, even if their services are not controversial. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Trump directed federal agencies to make it easier to forcibly hospitalize homeless people with mental illness. Critics warn this can return us to a darker era when people were often unjustly locked away, @davidovalle.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

NEW: Authorities in Miami-Dade County are seeking to arrest former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown on a charge of attempted murder stemming from a shooting at a celebrity boxing event in May, according to a warrant reviewed by The Washington Post.

The Texas program — billed by supporters as the largest public investment in psychedelics research — is being closely watched in Washington, where top health officials under President Donald Trump have expressed interest in accelerating research.

Not quite back from parental leave but popped my head up to report this news - NEW: U.S. drug deaths plunged in 2024. Trump cuts may reverse that, experts warn. wapo.st/3YGzUGz

The story of Hamilton County, which includes Cincinnati, is the story of much of America at the start of 2025. Deaths from drug overdoses have fallen sharply, offering hope the crisis will further ease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The story of Hamilton County is the story of much of America in 2025. Overdose deaths have fallen sharply, offering hope the crisis will further ease. But the 'why' is complex, by @davidovalle.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... via @washingtonpost.com #ToxicDrugCrisis

Latest with @davidovalle.bsky.social: RFK Jr as HHS secretary would be a boon to the wellness/alternative therapies industries, as he has talked often about vitamins and supplements among other alt treatments and claimed the FDA has “aggressively”suppressed these remedies. wapo.st/3CmpKCV

Researchers determined that slashing cigarette nicotine levels should essentially be all or nothing — reducing nicotine moderately would only spur smokers to light up more, exposing them to increased toxic smoke. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... w/ @rachelroubein.bsky.social

Questions remain about whether the non-opioid painkiller developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals could be effective for chronic pain. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... w @ByDanielGilbert

Some companies are flouting a ban on shipping vapes through the U.S. Postal Services. But enforcement is complicated by a patchwork of regulations at the federal, state and local levels. with @davidovalle.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

Vapes arrive regularly on the doorsteps of homes across the nation as companies flout laws regulating online sales of the products, including a ban on shipping e-cigarettes through the U.S. Postal Service. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/... w/ @rachelroubein.bsky.social

We spent weeks reviewing Dave Weldon, Trump’s CDC pick, and his congressional papers, interviews and public appearances — including with anti-vaccine activists. This is a portrait of a politician who wouldn’t let go of the false theory vaccines cause autism wapo.st/4iACoi0

The investigation stems from the company’s work advising Purdue Pharma on how to “turbocharge” sales of the blockbuster opioid OxyContin, officials said.

Trump’s pick to head DEA withdraws after GOP criticism of his covid policies www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

First time in DEA court today and eager to report that the benches are just as uncomfortable as Miami-Dade state court

Supreme Court poised to enter fray over regulation of flavored vapes www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

Trump taps Florida sheriff as DEA administrator www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Breaking news: President-elect Donald Trump picks Pam Bondi to be attorney general, replacing Matt Gaetz hours after he withdrew bid. Follow our live coverage:

A high-ranking member of a Mexican drug cartel who allegedly faked his own death and has been living in California under a fake name is now facing federal charges, the US Justice Department announced.

BREAKING: Former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) announced in a social media post Thursday that he was withdrawing his bid to be attorney general for President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration, saying his confirmation was “unfairly becoming a distraction.”

RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Oregon shows what’s coming. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

NEW: DEA faces legal challenge as uncertainty clouds plan to reclassify marijuana. But the incoming administration intends to follow through on reclassification, according to an official familiar with the Trump team’s plans. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

Breaking news: President-elect Donald Trump announced plans Tuesday to nominate Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor and onetime U.S. Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, to lead the agency that administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

10 RFK Jr. conspiracy theories and false claims, in his own words www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

In RFK Jr., drugmakers face an antagonist with regulatory power www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to strip processed food out of school lunch and limit food dye marks a shift in how Trump is planning to regulate the nation’s food www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...