US EditionLeft-leaning physicians group sues over federal websites scrubbing health information
- Doctors for America filed a lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management, CDC, FDA, and HHS for removing health-related data from government websites.
- The lawsuit states that the removal creates a dangerous gap in scientific data necessary for monitoring disease outbreaks.
- The complaint argues that this removal endangers patient health and research that benefits the American public.
- The lawsuit seeks to hold these agencies accountable for their responsibilities to provide accessible health information.
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Medical advocacy group sues US health agencies for removing information from websites
Doctors for America, a non-profit medical advocacy organization in the US, sued the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday, alleging that the removal of public health information considered to be a part of “gender ideology extremism,” pursuant to an executive order signed by Donald T…
CDC, FDA, HHS Sued After Health Webpages Go Down
A medical group filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and several U.S. health agencies for removing webpages and data from agency websites in recent days. Doctors for America filed the lawsuit against OPM, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the removal of “a range of health-related data and other i…
Scientist calls the disappearance of federal health data a 'digital book burning'
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist at Harvard University, about her efforts to preserve federal health data that recently disappeared from government websites.
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