Medscape March 19, 2025
At first, Han Yu Stephanie Liou, MD, thought the broken link was a glitch. She had downloaded information on prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website for her patients countless times in the past. It wasn’t until she began receiving messages from colleagues asking about missing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, LGBT issues, and teen pregnancy information that she connected the dots.
“This is a huge problem. And also? This is honestly kind of bonkers,” the Chicago pediatrician said, recalling how federal health agencies, acting on President Trump’s executive orders, pulled down health data and other clinical information from their websites.
Liou is a board member of Doctors for America (DFA), a...
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