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 investigate the alleged connection between autism and childhood vaccines, despite many studies deeming them safe. (NBC News)

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

The FBI announced a $50,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer, and the New York Police Department recovered a book bag believed to be the killer’s. (AP, ABC News)

Here’s why finding the gunman is so difficult and why internet sleuths aren’t helping. (CNN, NBC News)

GOP lawmakers are split over whether the federal government should cover 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 microdosing semaglutide and other weight loss medications. Does it work? (New York Times)

Current and former Acadia Healthcare employees said they were pressured to falsify records, 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 nearly twice the rate 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 extend Affordable Care Act subsides 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, according to the World Health Organization.

From 2020 to 2023, cancer treatment rates shot up among adults under 50, according to FAIR Health data. (Axios)

In an interview with “Meet the Press,” Trump suggested he “probably” would not restrict access to abortion medication. (The Hill)

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

The father of Janette Nesheiwat, MD, Trump’s nominee for U.S. Surgeon General, died in an accidental shooting which she witnessed at age 13. (New York Times)

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

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

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

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