Physicians are facing unreliable and unavailable medical guidance as the Trump administration continues to remove information from federal health websites. The CDC and other agencies have been instructed to remove references to various health topics, including sexual orientation, HIV, contraception, and vaccine uptake, to comply with executive orders. This has forced clinicians to rely on archived sites and alternative sources assembled by scientists, clinicians, and health advocates. Experts warn that the removal of this vital information could negatively impact patient care.
As the Trump administration’s mandated scrubbing of information from federal health websites continues, physicians are finding once steadfast medical guidance to be unreliable or unavailable — even as some information comes back online.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies have scrambled to remove references to health and gender equity, sexual orientation, HIV, contraception, and other vital clinical information, like vaccine uptake, to comply with executive orders mandating the removal of references to
“The removal of CDC guidance on multiple important clinical topics has the potential to negatively impact patient care,” said Brenna Hughes, MD, chair of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Committee on Infectious Diseases and Emerging Threats. “It will be important for clinicians to understand where they can access reliable clinical guidance during this time.”
Federal officials also have instructed researchers to pull existing manuscripts under consideration or already accepted by peer journals and scrub any language referencing these and other key terms, according to a CDC email obtained by Jeremy Faust, MD, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, who writes theYet many updates stop on or before January 31, and it’s not known whether any files will be refreshed going forward.
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