Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump.
When politicians subordinate scientific institutions to electoral interests, they undermine immediate public health efforts and inflict lasting damage on institutional credibility.
The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across the United States.
Federal health officials have been instructed to temporarily stop any “external communications” to the public, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation.
The CDC on Friday is scrubbing a swath of HIV-related content from the agency’s website as a part of Trump’s broader effort to wipe out DEI initiatives.
The CDC and other federal agencies appeared to be racing to meet a Friday afternoon deadline to remove “gender ideology” from their websites, in accordance with a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.
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The CDC’s primary medical journal for disseminating public health information went unpublished this week — seemingly for the first time ever — amid a communications freeze issued by HHS to the nation’s various health agencies.
The CDC confirmed the existence of the pause in a statement. "HHS has issued a pause on mass communications and public appearances that are not directly related to emergencies or critical to ...
The directive to the CDC to halt communications with the World Health Organization was imposed to comply with President Trump's executive order.
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As secretary of the HHS, Kennedy would oversee major health agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),