Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is putting $400 million behind an ambitious new medical institute after his 26-year-old daughter suffered a massive brain hemorrhage that left her in a coma and unable to walk, speak, or see.
Ackman and his wife, Neri Oxman, are creating the Ackman Oxman Institute (AOI), a massive Manhattan-based research and treatment center focused on brain health, rehabilitation, recovery, human optimization, and longevity. 
<a href="https://x.com/BillAckman/status/2090198220592787569">Ackman says</a> the institute will be deliberately different from traditional academic research centers, which produce &#8220;lots of papers, a Nobel Prize winner or two, but little if any results for patients.”
Instead, the AOI will focus squarely on cures, treatments, devices, rehabilitation, and other innovations that can improve and extend patients’ lives.
An SEC filing confirms that Ackman transferred 10 million shares of Pershing Square, the investment firm he founded, worth approximately $400 million, to the Ackman Oxman Institute as a charitable gift.
The extraordinary project was born out of a deeply personal family crisis. At midnight on February 6, Ackman awoke to news that his oldest daughter, Eloise, had found his 26-year-old daughter Lucy unconscious on the floor of her apartment in Williamsburg and called 911.
Ackman rushed to the hospital, where he eventually found Lucy unconscious on a gurney surrounded by doctors and nurses. By approximately 2:30 a.m., doctors had determined that she had suffered a massive brain hemorrhage and needed an emergency hemicraniectomy to relieve pressure on her brain and remove the blood.
The surgery, which lasted more than two hours, saved her life.
Ackman eventually used data from Lucy’s Oura Ring, a wearable health tracker that monitors things like heart rate and sleep, to determine that the hemorrhage had likely occurred around 9 a.m. the previous day. That meant more than 19 hours had passed between the hemorrhage and the completion of her surgery.
Ackman said he later learned that doctors generally would not recommend surgery to save a patient with a large brain bleed after more than five hours had passed. Even when surgery was performed, he was told, the likely outcome was months in a nursing home followed by death from pneumonia.
Ackman decided to reject those expectations and told the doctors: “Let’s see what can be accomplished if we give her the best care possible and we invest unlimited resources to restore her to life.”
That became the philosophy behind the institute he is now building.
Lucy spent several weeks in a coma. When she awoke, she could not breathe independently. She could not walk, see, or speak. Over the next six months, Ackman says Lucy regained her cognition and understands everything, including what happened to her. She can now walk more than 100 steps at a time with assistance. She is making progress with sounds, vowels, consonants, and the beginnings of speech. Her sight has not returned.
“Each day, she makes a little progress, and daily progress compounds,” Ackman wrote, adding that it will likely take years for her to recover.
That experience convinced Ackman that the boundaries of brain recovery may be considerably wider than conventional medicine currently understands.
Now he wants to build an institution dedicated to discovering exactly how far that recovery can go.
The goal, Ackman said, is to “massively” accelerate the process “from idea to innovation to production to helping a patient.”
The institute will also have its own venture funding, allowing it to help develop promising ideas into companies. Ackman says the AOI will seed and assist those companies and ultimately spin them out so new technologies, treatments, techniques, and drugs can reach patients faster. He wants the nonprofit to have “highly commercial instincts” and bring scientists, doctors, engineers, and entrepreneurs together under one roof.
It is also meant to challenge the current research system, which Ackman says has become too weighed down by politics and bureaucracy. He argues that universities have become less attractive places to work as “politics” has increasingly outweighed meritocracy, pointing to protests that disrupt learning, antisemitism, and declining funding.
Ackman says he wants the AOI to become “the best-resourced brain, rehab, recovery, and longevity institute in the world.”
Ackman’s ambitious project will be housed in a recently acquired 400,000-square-foot biotech facility on West End Avenue between West 65th and 66th Streets in New York City. The organization has also put under contract an adjoining 130,000-square-foot building at 320 West 66th Street, currently used by Saturday Night Live for studio space. 
With the existing zoning rights, the combined property could support approximately 680,000 square feet of development, according to Ackman. He says that would create a laboratory footprint larger than Rockefeller University.
The institute will bring together neurosurgery, neuroscience, rehabilitation, nutrition, brain-computer interface and device development, human trials, hyperbaric oxygen treatments, and life-extension programs on a single campus.
Ackman also said artificial intelligence will play a major role.
“AI still has a lot to learn about human intelligence and the brain,” he wrote, adding that the AOI “should be at the forefront of the interplay between the brain and AI.”
Brain-computer interfaces will be another major area of focus. Ackman believes the technology could eventually help restore functions lost through catastrophic brain injuries, including potentially Lucy’s vision. He pointed to work being done by Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience, Science, Synchron, Nudge, and other companies in the field.
“Lucy’s vision and other faculties may require some form of brain computer interface,” Ackman wrote. 
He believes the rapid development of such technologies means that patients suffering devastating brain injuries today have opportunities that would have been unimaginable to previous generations. 
“If you are going to have a devastating brain injury, now is the best time in history for that to happen,” Ackman wrote. “We have learned from Lucy that the brain can recover from even catastrophic injury.”

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A scientist in Japan may have <a href="https://www.earth.com/science/immune-system-aging-supercentenarians/">discovered</a> the secret to living beyond the age of 100.
While most of us watch our body’s internal security force turn to mush as we age, a mind-blowing new study shows that folks who blow past their 110th birthday are hiding a supercharged biological defense force in their veins.
According to <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2585352-supercentenarians-have-an-abundance-of-immune-cells-that-ward-off-cancer/">groundbreaking research</a> led by Dr. Kosuke Hashimoto from the University of Osaka and the prestigious RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, the human body doesn&#8217;t just give up after living 100 years. Instead, it produces an army of microscopic hitmen to keep death away, a mysterious, chameleon-like defender known as the CD4 cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CD4CTL).
Normal immune cells act like police or soldiers; helper T-cells spot the bad guys and scream for backup, while killer T-cells eliminate the threat.
But the newly discovered cell does everything; it has radar sensors like a spotter and the firepower of a sniper.
In normal people under the age of 100, these hybrid cells are extremely rare, making up less than 5% of total T-cells. But once these people pass 100 years old, the floodgates burst open. By the time someone reaches 110, these cells explode to make up nearly 20% of circulating T-cells in their bloodstream.
&#8220;Our findings suggest that immune aging is not simply a process of decline,&#8221; Dr. Hashimoto revealed. &#8220;Even at extreme old age, the immune system may continue to adapt to persistent challenges.&#8221;
Analyzing over 43,000 individual cells from donors ranging from elderly senior citizens to ultra-rare supercentenarians, Hashimoto’s team made an even crazier discovery: these ancient immune cells don’t get tired. Normally, when a cell fights off continuous threats, it gets burnt out with &#8220;T-cell exhaustion.&#8221; But these centenarians’ cells showed no signs of fatigue.
Even crazier, when researchers cross-referenced the genetic blueprints of these cells against global databases, they found matching receptor sequences in patients fighting against aggressive tumors, particularly lung cancer. Yet, the 110-year-old donors who carried these exact same cells had zero history of ever having cancer.
These super-centenarians might be churning out these cells that obliterate early-stage tumors and hidden infections before a doctor or a scan even notices them. Spain&#8217;s María Branyas Morera lived to be 117 and resisted COVID-19 without showing a single symptom.
If scientists can crack the code and artificially replicate this cell, much more of the human race could live beyond 100, and there might even be a cure for cancer.

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The family of an 83-year-old devout Christian grandmother who opposed euthanasia said the elderly woman was killed through Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, a process that was initiated while her family was on a brief scheduled vacation.
The family of Brigitte “GG” Stegemann said the grandmother strongly opposed euthanasia and told doctors she did not want to be killed after she developed Stage IV stomach cancer. Despite Stegemann&#8217;s objections, and the family&#8217;s objections, medical staff claim the grandmother consented privately to be euthanized while her granddaughter Brigitte Kranendonk, who was also her power of attorney, was on a brief scheduled vacation with her husband. Stegemann died through MAID a week later on July 10, notably without providing verbal consent, instead remaining silent and keeping her hands clasped in a prayer position.
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A Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10165694418302871&amp;set=our-familys-experience-with-medical-assistance-in-dying-maidthis-is-our-familys-">post</a> published by the family outlines their experience with doctors, nurses, and staffers pushing MAID on Stegemann. The program is part of the nation&#8217;s &#8220;free&#8221; publicly-funded healthcare system.
When she returned from vacation, Kranendonk was told that the staff had &#8220;met privately with GG on two occasions during Brigitte&#8217;s 10-day vacation to discuss MAID.&#8221; When Kranendonk asked why these discussions were taking place after Stegemann explicitly objected to MAID because of her Christian faith, Kranendonk was met with anger and pushback. She said one nurse told her, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need to tell you anything.&#8221;
When Kranendonk asked her grandmother privately if she really wanted to be euthanized, Stegemann appeared &#8220;confused&#8221; and responded, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to die Friday? They&#8217;re going to kill me Friday?&#8221;
Still, the home where Stegemann was staying for supposed care went ahead with the procedure. The family was told Stegemann would give consent to be killed at the start of the process, but she did not. Stegemann was killed anyway.
&#8220;[The doctor] attempted to speak with GG. By this point, GG was silent, her hands tightly clasped together in a fixed prayer position,&#8221; the family wrote. &#8220;GG never provided a verbal response to Dr. K.&#8221;
&#8220;Our family had been strictly assured that GG would be asked for a final, explicit verbal confirmation on the day of the procedure to ensure she still wished to proceed,&#8221; the family added. &#8220;When GG remained completely silent and gave no response, Brigitte felt a sudden wave of relief and a big smile came over her face, believing that the procedure would finally be halted because the strict requirement for final consent had not been met. Tragically, we were left alarmed and horrified when the clinical team completely ignored her silence and carried the procedure forward regardless.&#8221;
The incident is fueling more criticism of the MAID program, which was legalized in 2016 and has dramatically expanded since, with the total number of assisted deaths set at roughly 100,000.
Critics of MAID argue about its ethics and the financial incentives for Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system, which can save money when patients are euthanized rather than receive long-term care. Notably, Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated that the 2021 expansion of MAID under Bill C-7 would result in approximately $149 million in net healthcare savings in its first year.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-catholic-priest-walks-into-a-canadian-hospital-they-offer-to-kill-him-twice">A Catholic Priest Walks Into A Canadian Hospital. They Offer To Kill Him, Twice. </a>

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The Trump administration <a href="https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-ends-federal-medicaid-chip-funding-sex-rejecting-procedures-children-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Tuesday that a final rule barring federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funds from being used to pay for transgender medical interventions for minors, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries.
“Today, we are ending federal taxpayer funding for sex-rejecting procedures on children,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. “These interventions carry serious risks and can cause irreversible harm. The federal government will no longer use Medicaid and CHIP dollars to fund procedures that fail to meet the evidentiary standard our children deserve.”
President Donald Trump celebrated the decision Tuesday, saying his administration would no longer force taxpayers to finance “barbaric surgeries and practices” on children. 
“Just think about all of the young, innocent, and perhaps confused children who will be spared!” Trump wrote on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117078967972327386">Truth Social</a>.
Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said the policy is intended to protect children from experimental and potentially irreversible medical interventions. 
“Children deserve our protection, not experimental interventions that pose serious risks and convey no proven benefits,” Oz said. “By cutting off federal funds for these sex-rejecting procedures, we’re following the science, saving taxpayer dollars, and, most importantly, protecting children from potentially irreversible harm so they can truly flourish.”
CMS said its decision followed a review of national and international research conducted by HHS that identified what the agency described as significant evidence gaps and safety concerns.
CMS said the procedures can carry potentially permanent consequences, including infertility, impaired sexual function, diminished bone density, altered brain development, and other lasting physiological effects.
The agency also pointed to the United Kingdom’s Cass Review, a comprehensive examination of medical treatment for transgender-identifying children, as evidence of international scrutiny surrounding the treatments.  
The new rule includes a taper-off period for minors already receiving hormone therapy. Federal Medicaid and CHIP funding will remain available for up to six months after the rule takes effect to allow patients to safely get off hormone treatment.
The rule does not affect Medicaid or CHIP coverage for mental health services, which CMS said will continue to be covered under existing federal requirements.
Trump tied the policy to the upcoming midterm elections.
“Please remember this when you are casting your vote in the Midterm Elections in November,” he wrote.
CMS said Tuesday’s action is specifically focused on the use of federal taxpayer dollars. 
“The Trump Administration is drawing a clear line: America’s children will not be subjected to life-altering interventions on the taxpayer’s dime without reliable evidence of safety and clinical benefit,” HHS Press Secretary Emily Hilliard said.
The rule is set to take effect October 13, putting the federal funding restrictions in place less than a month before the November midterm elections.

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A Florida pastor has sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT repeatedly discouraged him from seeking professional medical care before he nearly died from a pulmonary embolism. 
Scott Winters, who led a congregation at a Florida church before his health crisis, claims ChatGPT provided “extremely dangerous medical recommendations,” according to a lawsuit covered by the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/well/openai-chatgpt-health-lawsuit.html?campaign_id=60&amp;amp;emc=edit_na_20260722&amp;amp;instance_id=179141&amp;amp;nl=breaking-news&amp;amp;regi_id=313459440&amp;amp;segment_id=223509&amp;amp;user_id=78f711be30ac4139b3a0a041b9e1adc5">New York Times</a>. As Winters experienced early stages of a pulmonary embolism, a potentially life-threatening blood clot in the lungs, he turned to ChatGPT for advice. 
Using ChatGPT-4o, released in May 2024, Winters initially received recommendations to seek professional medical care. But according to the lawsuit, those warnings stopped providing disclaimers as the conversations continued. Medical AI researcher Dr. Adam Rodman described the allegations as a “nightmare scenario.”
The lawsuit alleges ChatGPT eventually told Winters that his symptoms were “not something dangerous” and that “God did not design your body to endlessly fail.” 
As Winters began experiencing dizzy spells, including one that forced him to stop a sermon, friends encouraged him to seek medical attention. He told ChatGPT that “the people in my church think I’m crazy for not going to the hospital,” but the chatbot reassured Winters and instructed him to “take it easy,” certain he would recover in time.
The chatbot also allegedly told Winters that resetting his nervous system at home with its help was a decision “most people simply don&#8217;t understand,” according to the New York Times.  
Winters’ health continued to worsen as he spent much of his time in his recliner because he became too dizzy to stand. The lawsuit alleges ChatGPT continued to &#8220;downplay&#8221; his symptoms while offering “specific regimens for prescription medications.” 
After experiencing severe groin pain in July 2025, ChatGPT allegedly told Winters it was “very likely another minor piece of the long story.” Hours later, he was rushed to intensive care with a massive pulmonary embolism, according to the New York Times. 
Doctors later told Winters that his earlier dizzy spells were likely symptoms of smaller pulmonary embolisms and that the blood clots may have worsened after weeks of reclining, the lawsuit claims.
As a result of the pulmonary embolism, Winters required weeks of assistance with “standing, eating, dressing and using the bathroom” and will face years of “intensive physical and psychological recovery,” according to the lawsuit. 
More than <a href="https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/40-million-use-chatgpt-health-questions-openai/808861/">40 million</a> people ask ChatGPT health-related questions daily. While the newer chatbot models include additional safeguards, experts told the Times that lengthy conversations can sometimes weaken those protections. Rodman said newer models make scenarios like Winters&#8217; less likely but warned AI systems could still fail in ways researchers have not yet anticipated.

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A number of American cruise passengers who may have been exposed to hantavirus are being monitored at home after returning from the Dutch ship M.V. Hondius.
<a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/us-news/americans-on-hantavirus-plagued-cruise-ship-return-home-to-three-states/">The passengers</a> — two in Texas, two in Georgia, one in Virginia, one in Arizona, and one in California — disembarked on the remote South Atlantic island of Saint Helena and are all reported to be in good health. They are still being monitored by health officials in their respective states, as life-threatening symptoms can still develop weeks after the initial exposure. None of the passengers were aware when they left the cruise ship that they might have been exposed.
Oceanwide Expeditions, the company that operates the Dutch cruise ship, released a statement on Thursday: &#8220;These disembarked guests have all been contacted by Oceanwide Expeditions. We are working to establish details of all passengers and crew who embarked and disembarked on various stops of M/V Hondius since March 20.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON599">Hantavirus</a> is most commonly transmitted through contact with rodent droppings, but the Andes virus — which primarily attacks the respiratory system and can carry a mortality rate of up to 50% — can be transmitted from person to person. The Andes virus, according to the World Health Organization, is responsible for the Hondius outbreak. Other strains of hantavirus can cause what&#8217;s known as Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS), a condition that can cause the kidneys to shut down.
The ship has been stranded for several days — with travelers trapped on board — as officials determine when and where passengers will be permitted to disembark. The next destination is likely to be Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands.
Since the outbreak began, seven cases have been identified — two through lab testing and five through medical evaluation. According to the WHO, three of those patients have died and one still remains critical — and three more have had only mild symptoms of infection.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/world/hantavirus-ship-tenerife-outbreak-intl">Travelers in at least</a> seven other countries are also monitoring for signs of illness after leaving M.V. Hondius.

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A major medical association said Tuesday that it does not support transgender surgeries on those under the age of 19, drawing praise from the Trump administration.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) <a href="https://www.plasticsurgery.org/documents/health-policy/positions/2026-gender-surgery-children-adolescents.pdf">released</a> a position statement saying that the available evidence did not support genital procedures or removing the breasts of young girls who identify as boys. The society also said there was “insufficient” support for placing kids on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
“In light of recent publications reporting very low/low certainty of evidence regarding mental health outcomes, along with emerging concerns about potential long-term harms and the irreversible nature of surgical interventions in a developmentally vulnerable population, ASPS concludes there is insufficient evidence demonstrating a favorable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents,” the society said in its position statement. “ASPS recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.”
The position statement, in part, cited a review from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which found there was no support for transgender procedures on minors.
“These reviews have not resolved earlier uncertainties regarding treatment benefit; in some areas they have contributed to a clearer understanding of potential harms, while also highlighting limitations of the available evidence, including gaps in documenting long-term physical, psychological, and psychosocial outcomes,” the position statement said.
The Trump administration has fought hard to shield kids from transgender procedures and has looked to cut off all government funding for hospitals that perform the procedures.
“We commend the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for standing up to the overmedicalization lobby and defending sound science,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. “By taking this stand, they are helping protect future generations of American children from irreversible harm.”
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the chair of Do No Harm, praised the society for its statement, saying that it was the first major medical society to disavow the procedures for kids.
“High praise to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for taking an important step toward ending the unscientific and harmful practice of sex-rejecting procedures on minors,” he said. “The ASPS’s thoughtful, scientific, and well-reasoned statement today is a model for other medical organizations—namely the Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and others—to follow and disavow their previous support for experimental and unscientific interventions. This fight is not over, and we will continue to protect American children by exposing any organization that spreads gender lies.”
Over two dozen states have passed laws protecting kids from transgender surgeries and life-altering cross-sex hormones. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons said it believes that “the regulation of medical care is best achieved through professional self-regulation, rather than criminal law or punitive legislative approaches.”

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NASA is cutting short the Crew-11 mission aboard the International Space Station due to a crewmember&#8217;s medical issue, and canceling the first spacewalk of the year that was originally planned for Thursday.
“I have come to the decision that it&#8217;s in the best interest of our astronauts to return Crew-11 ahead of their planned departure,” NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said Thursday in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffcV3jCwwPk">press conference</a>, adding that their return would take place “in the coming days.”
The space agency released no further details on the name of the crewmember or of the medical situation, but reiterated that the astronaut is now fully stable.
Dr. James Polk, NASA’s chief health and medical officer, said, “It’s not an emergency evacuation, but we are erring on the side of caution for the crew member.”
The spacewalk was to be performed by American astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, who would exit the orbiting lab for almost 7 hours and &#8220;finish preparing a power channel where a new solar array is set to be installed on the ISS,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-cancels-spacewalk-and-considers-early-crew-return-from-iss-due-to-medical-issues">Live Science</a>. It would have been Cardman&#8217;s first spacewalk, and Fincke&#8217;s ninth.
The other two astronauts were Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov.
The American-Japanese-Russian crew first arrived on the ISS in August 2025 and was scheduled for at least a sixth-month stay. The group was then supposed to be replaced with Crew-12 in mid-February, but this is now up in the air due to the early departure. Isaacman said they may &#8220;potentially pull [the crew] forward.&#8221;
&#8220;It is unclear what returning Crew-11 home early would mean for the ISS, as such changes to the usual rotation are highly unusual,&#8221; Live Science reported.
There are also three other astronauts currently living on the space station who launched from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in November and are due back to Earth in the summer.
NASA announced it will provide further details regarding the upcoming crew in the next 48 hours.

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Multiple California-based healthcare workers lost their jobs after they were seen in a TikTok video mocking patients in medical exam rooms.
The incident occurred at Sutter Health’s Pesetas Urgent Care facility in Santa Barbara. The video went viral over Labor Day weekend and has since been taken down. 
In the clip shared by the handle @angieuncut, a group of workers asks via caption, “Are patients allowed to leave you guys gifts?” The following images show exam chair papers stained with bodily fluids left by patients, along with the responses, “Yes!” and “We love them so much.” 
“All shapes and sizes,” another caption reads alongside a photo of a different employee sticking out her tongue while bending over a large stain.
The employees posed around the soiled exam chairs, smiling and giving thumbs-up signs. “Guess the substance,” the original video caption said.
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The workers were apparently mocking the &#8220;sweet gifts&#8221; that their patients left them.
&#8220;Guess the substance!&#8221; the caption read.
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“We are deeply concerned about a disrespectful social media post made on a personal account by a former employee, and we are conducting a full review in line with our policies,” a Sutter Health spokesperson told <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/santa-barbara-clinic-staff-tiktok-bodily-fluids/">KTLA</a>. The company also stated that the employee who posted the video had not worked at the healthcare facility for two months.
In a later statement, Sutter Health confirmed that the individuals involved had been terminated.
“Sutter Health has terminated the employees responsible for the inappropriate and insensitive photos posted on social media,” a spokesperson said in a statement, per <a href="https://people.com/clinic-workers-fired-for-outright-violation-of-policy-after-posting-photos-mocking-patients-pap-smear-discharge-11803181">People</a>.
“This unacceptable behavior is an outright violation of our policies, shows a lack of respect for our patients and will not be tolerated,” it said. “Protecting the trust of those we serve is our highest priority and when that trust is violated, we take swift action to address it.”
“We expect all team members to live our patients-first mission and uphold the highest standards of compassion, professionalism and respect,” the representative went on. “We are using this inappropriate incident to reinforce our comprehensive policies with all our team members across the organization as part of our commitment to providing all patients with high-quality, compassionate care.”

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A 16-year-old girl won in court on Tuesday after the public school system in New York denied her medical vaccine exemption.
A federal court sided with a girl, who is named only by the pseudonym <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-school-bans-student-for-following-doctors-vaccine-advice-now-shes-fighting-back">Sarah Doe</a>, after the public school system in New York repeatedly denied her a medical exemption, which she received from six different doctors and a nurse practitioner. 
The court granted her medical exemption and said Sarah must be allowed to attend school, starting in September.
“I’m just happy to go to school and be given this opportunity,” Sarah said following the win. “Thank you everyone for coming, I appreciate all the support – it feels unreal.”
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16-year-old Sarah Doe must be allowed back to school this September.
Her medical exemption to vaccination is granted in federal court today.
Case backed by <a href="https://twitter.com/ChildrensHD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChildrensHD</a>
Here is Sarah in front of the courthouse <a href="https://t.co/qcMintC9i0">pic.twitter.com/qcMintC9i0</a>
— Teachers for Choice (@teacher_choice) <a href="https://twitter.com/teacher_choice/status/1955362186064482351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
New York is one of five states in the U.S. that do not allow religious exemptions for its vaccine mandates. The other states are California, Connecticut, Maine, and West Virginia — though West Virginia&#8217;s governor authorized religious and personal belief exemptions via executive action in 2025, effectively removing it from this list.
Since these remaining states have cracked down on religious exemptions, there have been an increasing number of reports of families saying they&#8217;ve been denied medical exemptions, too. In Sarah&#8217;s case, the court said the school was wrong, and the teen&#8217;s medical exemption is valid.
Sarah, who spoke to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-school-bans-student-for-following-doctors-vaccine-advice-now-shes-fighting-back">The Daily Wire</a> back in May about her lawsuit, was advised by a number of medical professionals to skip her final dose of the Hepatitis B vaccination. This was after she developed severe autoimmune conditions, kidney issues, debilitating migraines, continuous rashes, and a diagnosis of a bleeding disorder where blood does not clot properly. All of the conditions started back in 2019, when New York stopped allowing religious exemptions, and Sarah got 18 vaccine doses over the span of two months so she could attend school.
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“Her back started hurting her, her whole spine,” Jane Doe, Sarah’s mother, told The Daily Wire. “We went for MRIs, she did cat scans – that’s where our life started with the doctors, all of a sudden the new norm was seeing doctors.” 
“At one point, she did become septic, they had to put a stent in her to her kidney through her urethra and she was in the hospital, we had to pack her in ice one night because her temps just wouldn’t come down,” Jane continued. “It’s just her body responding to all those vaccines at once that just shut her down almost.”
Jane felt very strongly that she couldn’t give the last dose of the vaccine to her daughter and said she had no choice but to take legal action. In April, the family filed suit. 
The family’s attorney, Sujata Gibson, said this case was about Sarah and her safety, but also about other children in states like New York that don’t allow religious exemptions. Further, while New York is supposed to allow medical exemptions, Gibson said that’s not what’s happening.
“The problem really is these New York State Department of Health regulations that were issued in 2019, that led to hundreds of children who had longstanding medical exemptions suddenly getting them revoked,” Gibson told The Daily Wire. “Many, many families have had to move out of town, get vaccinated against medical advice — some children have been severely harmed by that.”
Gibson said there’s legislation pending in New York that could fix this issue, called the <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S686#:~:text=2025%2DS686%20(ACTIVE)%20%2D%20Summary,accept%20a%20medical%20immunization%20exemption.">Education for All Act</a>. This would “reiterate the state’s existing law that says school districts aren’t allowed to overrule treating physicians,” the attorney said.
Gibson also floated the idea that the federal government could take action to remedy the problem. “If the state won’t fix this, we are just hoping that the federal government will intervene,” she said. “There are a lot of things the federal government could do. This is a square violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Children with disabilities are required to be accommodated and allowed to attend school. And what these school districts are doing is flat-out discriminatory and dangerous to their health.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally supports exemptions and actually <a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2019/07/10/rfk-jr--and-sussman-file-lawsuit-challenging-end-to-religious-exemption-for-vaccinations?utm_source=chatgpt.com">filed suit in 2019</a> to challenge New York’s decision to rid religious exemptions. It’s unclear if HHS will put out any guidance on the matter.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-school-bans-student-for-following-doctors-vaccine-advice-now-shes-fighting-back">She Listened To Doctors About Which Vaccines To Get. Her School Kicked Her Out.</a>

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A child born in Iowa is celebrating his first birthday and was declared the youngest premature baby ever by Guinness World Records. 
Nash Keen weighed just 10 ounces, about the same as a bar of soap, when he entered the world at 21 weeks of gestation on July 5, 2024. The formerly tiny newborn, nicknamed “Nash Potato,” is now thriving and hitting milestones after spending six months in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital, per the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/premature-birth-guinness-world-record-22d4092b92af131a3efeea96aeb120e3">Associated Press</a>. 
“Nash is so full of personality,” his mom Mollie Keen told the outlet. “He’s a happy baby.” 
“Being in the NICU as long as he was, you’d think that he would be, you know, more fragile and stuff,” she added. “And he’s not. He’s a very determined, curious little boy, and he’s just all smiles all the time.”
Upon reaching his first birthday, Guinness World Records declared Nash the world’s most premature baby, beating out the organization’s previous record holder, born in 2020 in Alabama, by a single day.
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Guinness World Records named Nash the world’s most premature baby after he reached his first birthday. The previous record holder was born in Alabama and was older than Nash by just one day. 
These incredible stories help to turn the pro-abortion argument for “personhood” being linked to viability on its head as increasingly younger premature babies are able not just to survive, but to thrive, even when they are born very early. This is thanks to advancing technology and a commitment to delivering exceptional medical care to fragile newborns.
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Mollie reportedly said that she had a previous miscarriage and was concerned she would also lose Nash when she went into preterm labor. However, she and her husband, Randall, discovered that the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital was capable of caring for extremely premature babies.
“One of the things I noticed about the medical team is that they were very calm,” she told AP of the staff there. “You never really saw them, like, get anxious or anything. And so we kind of just learned to, like, watch them. If the doctors and the nurses weren’t freaking out, there was no reason for us to freak out.”
“We wanted to give Nash a chance,” Molly told Guinness World Records during an interview.
Despite being born so early and therefore being at risk for a slew of medical complications, Nash is developing in what his doctor says is the best outcome possible for him.
Although he is still on oxygen and using a feeding tube, his parents plan to introduce solid food soon. He is rolling over, and they hope he’ll crawl soon, too. 
“He’s truly the best thing to ever happen to us,” Mollie said.
The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion organization, “<a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/node/26263/printable/print">updated</a>” its definition of viability in August 2022, stating, “A fetus generally reaches viability between 24 and 28 weeks LMP (gestational age).”
This definition is out of date, considering the increasing number of cases like Nash’s, where very premature newborns survive and thrive. These kinds of cases prove that viability is not a fixed gestational point in time, and more broadly, does not determine the humanity of an unborn baby.

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