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Pope Francis after a fall, requiring a sling, just weeks after bruising his chin from another fall. (AP)
Air quality has improved in Los Angeles but ash and dust remain a concern; health officials there are for protection. (New York Times)
Democratic attorneys general asked a federal court if they could defend the right of since the Trump administration likely will not. (AP)
Nearly half (46%) of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong under a second Trump administration, according to a West Health-Gallup survey.
Meanwhile, the urged Trump to support scientists and to value evidence-based policy.
As the Biden presidency winds down, the administration touted its accomplishments, including regulatory action against forever chemicals and ethylene oxide, expanded access to cancer screening, and a new FDA rule to slash nicotine in cigarettes.
National data confirm disparities in in children. (American Journal of Psychiatry)
A middleman company administering the government's 340B drug program, designed to help safety-net providers access affordable drugs, is accused of . (New York Times)
The FDA expanded the approval of to include moderately to severely active Crohn's disease, Eli Lilly announced.
Meanwhile, Lilly has its sights set on approval of , a once-daily oral GLP-1 receptor agonist for weight loss, by early 2026. (Becker's Hospital Review)
A dietitian defended in Slate.
No "adverse consequences" but "unnecessary" security risks raised: government report blasts the lack of communication around Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's last year. (AP)
A legal fight over a continues with oral arguments before a federal appeals court. (AP)
Despite a doctor's best efforts, a woman from Kansas during a flight from Paris to Boston. (USA Today)
The CDC in a California child and, separately, alerted to a aboard a Silversea cruise. (ABC7 Los Angeles, USA Today)
Texas doctor David Young MD, received a 10-year prison sentence and was ordered to pay more than $25 million in restitution for , the Department of Justice announced.
, the first Black woman to serve in the desegregated U.S. Army Nurse Corps, died last week at age 104. (NPR)