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John Tinniswood, the world's oldest man, in Southport, England. (CNN)
President-elect Donald Trump chose Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, of Stanford University in California, to serve as NIH director. Bhattacharya criticized COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates. (AP)
Trump also nominated biotech investor to work as HHS deputy secretary. (The Hill)
A key challenge facing Trump's will be keeping politics out of science, experts told CNN.
Public health experts are concerned about against COVID, the flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) before the holidays. (Washington Post)
British Columbia health officials ran out of leads and into how a teenager became infected with H5N1 bird flu. The teen is hospitalized in serious condition but shows some signs of improvement. (STAT)
The Department of Agriculture said it after New World screwworm was discovered in a cow at an inspection checkpoint close to the Mexico-Guatemala border.
Lawyers for former Hollywood producer against New York City, alleging he is receiving substandard medical treatment while in custody at Rikers Island. (AP)
A Texas committee that reviews all will not examine cases from 2022 and 2023, the first 2 years after the state's abortion ban took effect. (Washington Post)
A former Lurie Children's Hospital employee filed a lawsuit claiming she was fired for reporting to state regulators. (Chicago Sun-Times)
And at Seattle Children's, a to hear arguments about whether the hospital racially discriminated against a former medical director. (Seattle Times)
UPMC said it will phase out its at its McKeesport, Pennsylvania, hospital. (WTAE)
The FDA approved Zimmer Biomet's Oxford cementless partial knee replacement implant, the .
And the agency approved landiolol (Rapiblyk) for treating atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter in critical care patients, maker .
Soccer than previously thought, according to new research to be presented at the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting.
Patients who saw a doctor for after-hours care were 10% less likely to visit the emergency department within 7 days than those who saw a walk-in clinic physician. (Annals of Family Medicine)
Costly multiplex testing with a rose from 2 to 148 claims per 10,000 Medicare beneficiaries between 2016 and 2023. (JAMA Network Open)
U.K. Biobank data showed that with a higher risk of major adverse cardiovascular events. (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
UnityPoint Health nurses in Des Moines are trying to over pay and working conditions. (Des Moines Register)
In Chicago, Northwestern Medicine nurses a day before her life-saving open-heart surgery.