Jennifer Calfas

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Jennifer Calfas |Liz Essley Whyte

Illness has sickened over 480 people in the state since late JanuaryA second child who was diagnosed with measles has died in Texas, marking another death in a growing measles outbreak that has so far sickened hundreds of people, hospitalized dozens and spread to nearby states. The school-age child was being treated for measles-related complications at UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, a spokesman for the health system said in a written statement to The Wall Street Journal.

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Jennifer Calfas |Mariah Timms |Katy Stech Ferek

Republicans who control Congress and the White House are using cuts to federal spending to target progressive groups. Antiabortion leaders are making a push to get GOP lawmakers in the coming weeks to strip some $700 million in Medicaid and other federal funding that Planned Parenthood receives for nonabortion healthcare services. Already the Trump administration has frozen about $20 million in family-planning grants to Planned Parenthood clinics in about a dozen states.

1 month ago | wsj.com | Jenna Telesca |Jennifer Calfas |Joseph Pisani

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1 month ago | wsj.com | Jennifer Calfas |Tarini Parti

President Trump said immigration officials will be pursuing other student organizers like Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student who helped lead last year’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations. “This is the first arrest of many to come,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social Monday. “We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it.”

1 month ago | hsph.harvard.edu | Larry Tye |Jennifer Calfas |Gwen Dilworth |Christine Mai Duc

BOSTON (March 4, 2025) – The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health today announced that thirteen health and science journalists from across the world have been selected for the 2025 class of theHealth Coverage Fellowship.