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For decades, foreign-born doctors like Rehman, Jumaa and Ali have played a vital role in shoring up American’s health care system. The doctors come to the United States for residency, drawn by cutting edge medical training and American ideals, then stay to fill the country’s growing need for doctors. But Trump’s executive order this week — and worries it may expand to other countries, such as Pakistan — has touched off a wave of anxiety, anger and dire predictions that immigrant doctors, faced with hostility or uncertainty, may go somewhere else. (Allen, 2/2)

There’s a big problem with doctors in rural areas — there aren’t enough to go around. One solution has been to hire foreign-born doctors, which is why President Donald Trump’s recent immigration ban has a lot of people in rural areas worried. How will this reduce the number of available physicians and other medical professionals when there’s already a shortage? (Dan Gorenstein, 2/2)

Hundreds of medical professionals are calling on the prominent Cleveland Clinic hospital system to cut its perceived ties to President Trump in light of a contentious executive order that has temporarily banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering or returning to the United States — including a resident at the clinic. Doctors, nurses and students have signed an open letter pleading with the clinic to publicly condemn Trump's immigration ban and use its power to protect medical professionals from deportation. The letter also urges the hospital system to cancel a fundraiser set for later this month at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. (Bever and Bernstein, 2/2)

About two dozen Cleveland Clinic doctors gathered this morning to show their support for colleague Dr. Suha Abushamma, a resident who was detained and unable to return to the United States over the weekend due to President Trump's executive order on immigration. Holding photos of Abushamma and signs reading "#BringSuhaBack," the group stood silently in the Clinic's Miller Pavilion at 7 a.m., only speaking to say the pledge of allegiance. (Zeltner, 2/2)

The White House schedule Friday calls for President Donald Trump to meet with prominent CEOs, including the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Toby Cosgrove. Some call this Trump's CEO kitchen cabinet, and the group -- officially called the President's Strategic and Policy Forum -- was formed in December, before Trump was inaugurated and started signing executive orders. The council is supposed to advise Trump on ways in which this country can spur faster economic growth, expand technology and boost employment. Politic are not directly on its agenda. Regulation, taxes, trade and women in the workforce are. (Koff, 2/2)

Dr. Mohamed Abdalla is a nephrology fellow at Case Western Reserve University, a Sudan native and a permanent U.S. resident. For now, he knows he can stay in the United States, but President Donald Trump's ban on travel from seven Muslim majority countries has him worried about himself, his family and scores of others already here or with plans to emigrate here. (Heisig, 2/3)

Refugees across the US face similar strain as they seek to assimilate into their new homes. In a new effort to quantify the stress, researchers from Wayne State University — many of whom are themselves former refugees — are conducting psychological evaluations, stress tests, and genetic analyses on hundreds of new arrivals. The goal: To identify and measure the problems they face, and then to develop low-cost interventions to help. Home visits or phone calls with multilingual social workers, for instance, might ease stress — and help the refugees feel less alone. (Keshavan, 2/3)

The revelation by his longtime doctor that President Trump takes a medication to prevent hair loss has piqued curiosity about the drug. In an interview with The New York Times, the physician, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, said that Mr. Trump takes finasteride, also marketed as Propecia. The drug, a one-a-day pill, is a popular treatment for so-called male-pattern hair loss, in which the hairline recedes and hair thins at the temples and crown, sometimes to the point of leaving just a horseshoe-shaped fringe around the sides and the back of the head. (Grady, 2/2)

The criticism of vaccines voiced by President Trump and some other public figures is at odds with the attitudes of most Americans, who overwhelmingly support requiring public school children to be vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Thursday. Overall, 82 percent of Americans support requiring students in public schools to be vaccinated for those three diseases. In addition, the survey found, their perceptions of the benefits of that combination vaccine are strongly positive, with about 88 percent saying the benefits outweigh any risks. About 73 percent of Americans see high preventive health benefits, and 66 percent say there is a low risk of side effects. (Sun, 2/2)

Many worry that up to 1 million Illinois consumers could lose their health insurance if Obamacare is repealed. But Chicago Department of Public Health leaders aren't just worried about that part of the Affordable Care Act being repealed. They're also concerned about the possible loss of funds used to vaccinate Chicagoans and deal with disease outbreaks. The Prevention and Public Health Fund created under the health care law has distributed about $12.8 million to the city's Department of Public Health since 2012 for programs to vaccinate thousands of Chicagoans and educate consumers on diseases, among other things. (Schencker, 2/2)