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RFK Jr. to Investigate Vaccines; Microdosing Semaglutide; Methadone Clinic Fraud?

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President-elect Donald Trump suggested that HHS nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will between autism and childhood vaccines, despite many studies deeming them safe. (NBC News)

A federal judge ruled that the additional records related to its decision to authorize COVID-19 vaccines. (New York Post)

The FBI announced a for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the UnitedHealthcare CEO's killer, and the New York Police Department believed to be the killer's. (AP, ABC News)

Here's is so difficult and why internet sleuths . (CNN, NBC News)

GOP lawmakers are split over semaglutide (Ozempic) and similar weight loss drugs; the Biden administration proposed a rule last month whereby Medicare and Medicaid would cover treatment. (Semafor)

Some people are and other weight loss medications. Does it work? (New York Times)

Current and former Acadia Healthcare employees said they were over-bill insurers, and enroll patients who didn't need treatment at their methadone clinics. (New York Times)

In 2020, drug overdose deaths among Medicaid enrollees were of the general U.S. population -- 54.6 per 1000,000 versus 27.9 per 100,000. (JAMA Health Forum)

Democrats in Congress proposed a plan to by 1 year. (Washington Post)

Here's what is known about the mysterious, undiagnosed disease that's taken 31 lives, most of them children, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,

From 2020 to 2023, among adults under 50, according to FAIR Health data. (Axios)

In an interview with "Meet the Press," Trump suggested to abortion medication. (The Hill)

Elon Musk was the only funder of a super PAC that sought to persuade voters that mirrored those of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (AP)

The father of Janette Nesheiwat, MD, , died in an accidental shooting which she witnessed at age 13. (New York Times)

A federal judge approved a settlement between in New York, who sued after allegedly being denied coverage for fertility treatments. (CNBC)

FDA may make a decision on whether to from beverages and candies in the next few weeks. (NBC News)

Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss is as an ESPN analyst to focus on his personal health, the network said. (AP)