• Tue, 19 May 2026

• Democratic-led states challenge the Trump administrations new caps on federal student loans
• WHO worries about Ebola outbreaks scale and speed as Congo announces 134 deaths
• Affordable Care Act enrollment projected to plunge by 5 million as costs spike, analysis shows
• A mop, a broom and a calmer mind. Why some find mental health benefits in everyday tasks
• Congo opens more centers to treat rare type of Ebola that has killed nearly 120

• Mon, 18 May 2026

• Trump touts a major TrumpRx expansion, adding more than 600 generic drugs
• New Mexico wildfire sparked by fatal medical plane crash spreads quickly in rural area
• Judge allows gun and notebook as evidence at Mangiones trial in UnitedHealthcare CEOs killing
• Ebola and hantavirus have Africa talking health sovereignty as donor support fades
• Gunmen kill 2 police officers assigned to protect polio workers in Pakistan
• Supreme Court rejects appeals from drug manufacturers over Medicare price negotiations
• Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docks in the Netherlands for disinfection

• Sun, 17 May 2026

• Canadian national health agency confirms 1 positive hantavirus test
• Demand for cruises appears undimmed despite hantavirus and other onboard outbreaks
• WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda

• Sat, 16 May 2026

• Congolese report constant burials as deaths in new Ebola outbreak reach 87
• Canadian cruise passenger gets a presumptive positive hantavirus test result after ship outbreak
• France says cruise ship Andes virus matches known South American viruses
• When should you get a mammogram? Conflicting advice makes it hard to know
• FDA official who scrutinized COVID shots and antidepressants is out in latest shake-up
• A judge is protecting youth gender care in Kansas while a settlement in Texas attacks it

• Fri, 15 May 2026

• A new Ebola outbreak is confirmed in a remote Congo province, with 65 deaths recorded
• 6 passengers from hantavirus-hit ship arrive in Australia for 3-week quarantine
• Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion pill, while lawsuit plays out

• Thu, 14 May 2026

• Judge blocks Trump administrations demand for Rhode Island hospitals records of transgender kids
• The worlds reaction to hantavirus is tinged by echoes of something else: COVID
• France allows asymptomatic passengers off new cruise ship struck by stomach bug outbreak
• Vance is set to speak in Maine about fraud investigations ahead of primary election

• Wed, 13 May 2026

• Officials say $1.3 billion in Medicaid money to California will be deferred over suspicions of fraud
• Company says its not clear when its hantavirus-hit ship will start cruises again
• France confines more than 1,700 on British cruise ship in Bordeaux after gastroenteritis outbreak
• FDA chiefs resignation widens a leadership gap at the nations health department
• US overdose deaths fell again in 2025, but some worry about policy and drug supply changes
• Cruise ship passenger making best of quarantine in US after hantavirus outbreak
• French hantavirus patient is critically ill and on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11

• Tue, 12 May 2026

• Trumps FDA chief is out after angering pharma CEOs, vaping lobbyists and anti-abortion activists
• Federal prosecutors seek NYU hospital information on gender-affirming care for children
• The condition PCOS is now called PMOS. What to know about the name change and what it means for care

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