Texas Opens Detransition Clinic for Gender-Affirming Care Reversal

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a settlement with Texas Children's Hospital compelling the hospital to create the country's first clinic for people who detransition from previous gender-affirming medical treatments. Services will be free for the first five years. The clinic will serve both kids and adults, established in a state that has made it illegal for trans kids to receive gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers and hormone therapies.

Congo Ebola outbreak

• ▪The CDC is assisting partners in coordinating the safe withdrawal of a small number of Americans directly affected by the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola outbreak.
• ▪A number of Americans in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are believed to have been swept up in the country's latest Ebola outbreak.
• ▪At least one American in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may have developed Ebola symptoms.
• ▪The WHO declared the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
• ▪Several Americans in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are deemed to have had high-risk Ebola exposures.
• ▪The Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola outbreak has resulted in at least 246 cases with 80 deaths.

Bill Cassidy Senate defeat

• ▪Bill Cassidy cast the decisive vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary.
• ▪Sen. Bill Cassidy lost his Senate seat after coming in third in Louisiana's Senate primary on May 16, 2026.
• ▪Bill Cassidy voted in 2021 to convict President Trump for inciting the January 6 insurrection.
• ▪Bill Cassidy served for two decades in Congress, first as a representative and then as a senator.

Texas detransition clinic

• ▪Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a settlement with Texas Children's Hospital that compels the hospital to create the country's first-ever clinic for people who detransition.
• ▪The Texas Children's Hospital detransition clinic settlement ensures that services will be free for the first five years.

China biotech competition

• ▪The U.S.'s share of the world's medicine chest fell from nearly half to less than 35% in the last decade.
• ▪American pharmaceutical companies spent approximately $60 billion on Chinese molecules in the first three months of 2026.

Prostate cancer screening

• ▪A Cochrane review published on May 14, 2026 found that prostate-specific antigen blood testing likely reduces the risk of deaths from prostate cancer.
• ▪The Cochrane review found that prostate-specific antigen screening reduced disease-specific death in about two every 1,000 men screened.
• ▪The Cochrane review analyzed results from six trials involving 800,000 participants.

FDA leadership departures

• ▪Tracy Beth Høeg, head of the Food and Drug Administration's drug center, is leaving the agency.
• ▪Tracy Beth Høeg started at the FDA in April 2025.
• ▪Tracy Beth Høeg helmed the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

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