Becker's Healthcare February 7, 2025
U.S. organizations representing more than 600,000 physicians urged Congress to restore federal health data and guidance that have been swept from the CDC and NIH websites.
Following an executive order from President Donald Trump to shutter programs that promote “gender ideology,” federal agencies closed several webpages, studies and guidance related to healthcare. Others, such as the CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,” took a two-week hiatus and returned as a condensed version compared with past editions.
“Removal hamstrings our ability to provide factual, accurate information to the millions of patients our members serve,” the physician groups...