Senate hearing for surgeon general nominee Casey Means postponed

The Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Casey Means, President Trump's nominee for surgeon general, was postponed Thursday after the nominee went into labor, a spokesperson for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee said. Means had been scheduled to appear virtually before the committee from Kilauea, Hawaii, two days after her due date; the committee offered to reschedule when she is ready, its chairman said.

Means, a Stanford-educated physician in her late 30s, was nominated in May to serve as the nation's surgeon general. She earned her medical degree in 2014 and completed several years of surgical training before leaving residency in 2018. Her medical license is listed as inactive and is set to expire at the end of this year, according to licensing records. Emily Hilliard, deputy press secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement that everyone is happy for Means and her family and that this was "one of the few times in life it's easy to ask to move a Senate hearing."

After leaving clinical practice, Means co-founded a health-technology company that offers paid metabolic tracking tools and co-authored a 2024 book that...