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The parents of a 31-year-old software engineer with epilepsy who died in February sued OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT told the engineer to stop taking her seizure medication and hide it from her medical team. (New York Times)
And the parents of Alex Pretti, RN, the 37-year-old Minnesota nurse killed by U.S. immigration agents in January, accused the Justice Department of violating a law on federal victims’ rights and shielding their son’s killers. (CNN)
Thirteen Senate Democrats pressed major Affordable Care Act marketplace insurers to explain their role in coverage cuts that dropped more than 760,000 people from their health plans. (Becker’s Hospital Review)
An HHS press release praised the Trump administration for the decline in opioid overdose deaths.
In the first 3 years after the end of Roe v. Wade, prosecutors initiated more than 900 cases charging pregnant women with crimes related to pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth, according to the nonprofit group Pregnancy Justice.
The FDA warned Amgen that a promotional video for its colorectal cancer drug panitumumab (Vectibix) “creates a misleading impression regarding the safety and effectiveness” of the drug. A company spokesperson said the video was never publicly disseminated.
And the agency issued draft guidance that would streamline approvals of personalized gene therapies for people with rare diseases.
Artiva Biotherapeutics said it is halting further development of its allogeneic NK cell therapy candidate (AB-101) for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases after two clinical trial deaths.
Roughly six in 10 Americans know that regularly consuming alcohol raises the risk of developing cancer — a jump of 5 points since February 2026 — according to an Annenberg Public Policy Center survey.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly will bypass a candidate recommended by the NIH director to lead the National Institute of Mental Health and instead is considering one whose work centers on metabolic psychiatry, a field that uses ketogenic diets to treat mental illness. (Becker’s Behavioral Health)
The American Medical Association (AMA) and other physician organizations backed a lawsuit challenging the Medicaid work requirements for people with certain medical conditions.
A doctor in Florida used a robotic telesurgery system to perform an investigational prostatectomy at a hospital 35 miles away — a first in the U.S., according to AdventHealth.
The nation’s first detransition clinic, at Texas Children’s Hospital, is now open, said Attorney General Ken Paxton.
A cross-sectional study of resident physicians and clinical fellows at the Yale New Haven Health System showed that 30.5% met criteria for food insecurity. (JAMA Network Open)
Experts called for climate change to be declared a global health emergency. (The Lancet)
How does an 80-year-old dementia expert keep his brain sharp? The Washington Post profiled the Mayo Clinic’s Ron Petersen, MD, PhD.
Here’s a list of health systems with artificial intelligence chiefs. (Becker’s Health IT)
The FDA advised people not to eat certain Haifa cold smoked sprats over botulism concerns.
