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Meet the medical contrarians picked to lead health agencies under Trump and Kennedy

Nov. 27, 2024 15:20 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has assembled a team of medical contrarians and health care critics to fulfill an agenda aimed at remaking how the federal government oversees medicines, health programs and nutrition. On Tuesday night, Trump nominated Dr. Jay...

Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya, who backed COVID herd immunity, to lead National Institutes of Health

Nov. 27, 2024 10:00 AM EST

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation's leading medical research agency. Trump, in a statement Tuesday evening, said Bhattacharya, a...