Daily Edition for Monday, June 9, 2025
South Coast AQMD Rebuffs Efforts To Phase Out Some Gas-Powered Appliances: After a contentious, five-hour hearing, Southern California air quality regulators on Friday rejected measures that would have phased out residential gas-powered water heaters and furnaces in the Los Angeles basin. The rules were aimed at reducing emissions of smog-contributing pollutants linked to asthma, allergies, premature death, and more. Read more from CalMatters and AP.
‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’
By Rachana Pradhan
Photos by Eric Harkleroad
A letter signed by more than 300 National Institutes of Health workers — some still working, others who were fired this year — is an extraordinary public rebuke of actions taken under Director Jay Bhattacharya and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
El riesgo de consumir marihuana aumentaría en los adultos mayores
By Paula Span
Treinta y nueve estados y el Distrito de Columbia permiten ahora el consumo de cannabis con fines médicos, y en 24 de esos estados, y en el distrito, el consumo recreativo también es legal.
As Cannabis Users Age, Health Risks Appear To Grow
By Paula Span
More older people are using cannabis products regularly, but research suggests their cannabis-related health problems are also on the rise.
Daily Edition for Friday, June 6, 2025
Asthma care; Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA changes in tax bill; AmeriCorps cuts; nursing homes; homelessness; brain health; and more.
In Axing mRNA Contract, Trump Delivers Another Blow to US Biosecurity, Former Officials Say
By Amy Maxmen
The Trump administration is eroding national pandemic flu defenses as it guts health agencies, cuts research and health budgets, and withdraws funding for bird flu vaccines, health security experts said.
In a Dusty Corner of California, Trump’s Threatened Cuts to Asthma Care Raise Fears
By Miranda Green
The Trump administration wants to shutter the CDC’s National Asthma Control Program, which provides millions in funding to state-administered initiatives aimed at fighting the disease. The program’s closure, combined with massive cuts to environmental programs, could put the 28 million Americans with asthma at increased risk.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Lands in Senate. Our 400th Episode!
The House’s gigantic tax-and-spending budget reconciliation bill has landed with a thud in the Senate, where lawmakers are divided in their criticism over whether it increases the deficit too much or cuts Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act too deeply. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that the bill, if enacted, could increase the ranks of the uninsured by nearly 11 million people over a decade won’t make it an easy sell. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Arielle Zionts, who reported and wrote the latest “Bill of the Month” feature, about a Medicaid patient who had an out-of-state emergency.
Daily Edition for Thursday, June 5, 2025
Gun violence prevention funding; the homelessness crisis; Medicaid cuts; ICE raids in hospitals; 23andMe; and more.
