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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with senators on Capitol Hill to reintroduce himself as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead HHS and discuss his views on vaccines. (AP)

Public health leaders are conflicted by Kennedy’s penchant for misinformation and stances on chronic disease. (Politico)

A school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, left three people dead, including the suspected juvenile girl shooter, and others injured. (CNN)

Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma secretly paid pharmacy benefit managers to not restrict prescriptions of painkillers, a New York Times investigation showed.

A Senate probe found that Amazon manipulated injury data to make its warehouses seem safer than they were. (WESA)

Nearly 23,000 Connecticut residents will have some or all of their medical debt eliminated. (NBC Connecticut)

Los Angeles County also announced a $2 billion program aimed at settling low-income residents’ medical debt. (CBS News)

Black women, who face much higher pregnancy-related mortality than white women, are being encouraged to speak up during and after childbirth. (Washington Post)

More research needs to assess the effectiveness of interventions targeting health disparities particularly for chronic conditions, an evidence review concluded. (Annals of Internal Medicine)

Uber for nursing? The gig economy, powered by artificial intelligence, may threaten healthcare, according to a new report by the think tank Roosevelt Institute.

Health protections for migrant children detained at the border are set to expire nine days after President-elect Trump takes office. (New York Times)

Taking more steps daily was associated with fewer depressive symptoms, a meta-analysis showed. (JAMA Network Open)

The FDA denied full approval for the anticoagulation reversal agent andexanet alfa (Andexxa) following last month’s advisory committee meeting. (Endpoints News, MedPage Today)

The agency also rejected a subcutaneous version of amivantamab and recombinant human hyaluronidase for patients with non-small cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor mutations, Johnson & Johnson said. The approved IV form (Rybrevant) is not affected.

Twelve restaurant employees at a Georgian ski resort in Europe died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, likely from a power generator. (New York Times)

A small randomized trial in China showed transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation improved chronic insomnia disorder severity. (JAMA Network Open)

Democratic senators introduced an amendment to a defense spending bill to ensure service members’ children can access gender-affirming care. (The Hill)

The death toll in Gaza surpassed 45,000, according to Palestinian health officials. (AP News)

Humans and Neanderthals have a genetic relationship going back millennia, two recent papers showed. (NPR)

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