Cancer advocate speaks at EPA hearing on cancer-causing ethylene oxide: “This proposal will put more people in hospital beds”

Michael Caputo appointed to President’s Cancer Panel
The cancer survivor and political operative says his appointment signals Trump’s interest in cancer, survivorship

Michael R. Caputo, a cancer survivor and a Republican political operative with a wide-ranging resume, was named to the President’s Cancer Panel, a board formed under the National Cancer Act to monitor the National Cancer Program and report to the president about “barriers to progress in reducing the burden of cancer.”

Trump targets HHS in $810M appropriations clawback

President Donald Trump has moved to cancel $810 million in government spending that has already been appropriated by Congress.

Federal judge blocks Trump’s second attempt at imposing $100,000 fee for H1-B visas

Judge Haywood Gilliam, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, blocked the Trump administration’s second attempt to require a $100,000 fee for H1-B visas, which allows foreign nationals in “specialty occupations” to live and work in the U.S. The fee was previously $5,000 to $10,000.

Trump weighs—and abandons—an executive order that would give OMB veto power over NIH grants

The White House last week considered, but ultimately abandoned, a plan to create a panel that would review NIH grants in an effort to weed out projects the administration regards as “woke.”

Trump administration pulls 750,000 people from ACA coverage, claiming fraud

The Trump administration has announced the removal of 750,000 people from coverage on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Vice President JD Vance asserted that these individuals are suspected of “fraudulently enrolling in the program.”

EPA stops publishing air pollution cancer risk data

EPA has stopped publishing cancer risk estimates as part of its annual Air Toxics Screening Assessment, according to a team of data scientists and former federal employees at the Federation of American Scientists. The group has tracked hundreds of federal databases that have disappeared—in part or in full—since the start of the second Trump administration.

September 25, 2026

Vol.52 No.35

By Sara Willa Ernst

Cancer advocate speaks at EPA hearing on cancer-causing ethylene oxide: “This proposal will put more people in hospital beds”

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Cancer advocate speaks at EPA hearing on cancer-causing ethylene oxide: “This proposal will put more people in hospital beds”

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Michael Caputo appointed to President’s Cancer PanelThe cancer survivor and political operative says his appointment signals Trump’s interest in cancer, survivorship

Trump targets HHS in $810M appropriations clawback

Federal judge blocks Trump’s second attempt at imposing $100,000 fee for H1-B visas

Trump weighs—and abandons—an executive order that would give OMB veto power over NIH grants

Trump administration pulls 750,000 people from ACA coverage, claiming fraud

EPA stops publishing air pollution cancer risk data

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Michael Caputo appointed to President’s Cancer Panel
The cancer survivor and political operative says his appointment signals Trump’s interest in cancer, survivorship