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Oprah Hospitalized; Senator in Car Crash; Oldest American Man Dies

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Oprah Winfrey, 70, was and dehydration, according to her friend Gayle King. (People)

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and his wife were taken to the hospital in Maryland on Sunday morning; Fetterman was treated for a bruised shoulder and both were discharged that same day. (Fox News)

A Senate health panel will to testify about the high cost of semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) in the U.S. (Reuters)

In other D.C. news, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced legislation to fight "corporate greed" in healthcare that includes a . (WBUR)

Could retired neurosurgeon , be Donald Trump's running mate? (New York Times)

A federal judge ruled that Florida's new for children and adults are unconstitutional. (Reuters)

House Republicans have called for the federal government to for gain-of-function research from the NIH and NIAID. (STAT)

North Carolina lawmakers passed a revised version of a controversial bill that now allows health in public. (AP)

Supercentenarian Morrie Markoff, who was listed as the , died at age 110. His brain was donated for research. (New York Times)

Biochemist Akira Endo, PhD, whose work led to the , died at age 90. (The Guardian)

Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, PhD, is hospitalized in Brazil he had a year ago, his wife said. (AP)

The USDA reported H5N1 bird flu cases in .

The European Union said it signed a contract with an option to secure .

A bill legalizing the in Louisiana may become law, despite CDC health warnings. (Axios)

India reported its second case of since 2019, according to the WHO. The patient was a child who had been exposed to poultry.

Four Tops singer that a metro Detroit hospital put him in a straitjacket after not believing he was part of the Motown quartet. (NBC News)

Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay that it misled customers about the safety of its talcum-based powder products. (Reuters)

Lawyers of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes . (NBC Bay Area)

Teams of nurses and community health workers are to bring primary care to a Baltimore neighborhood. (NPR)

The FDA approved sarilumab (Kevzara) for , Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi announced.

In a draft statement, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended for women ages 65 and older, and for younger postmenopausal women at increased risk.

A mobile air-testing lab in southeastern Louisiana at unexpectedly high levels. (Environmental Science & Technology)