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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
CDC Infectious-Disease Data Project Put On Hold Indefinitely
HHS has put on ice a CDC project that would make information about dozens of diseases available in near real time, CDC sources told MedPage Today. Since early summer, the team has been working on a more user-friendly website that would make case counts on 127 notifiable conditions available in one place, alongside expert commentary. But when they asked for approval to launch it, HHS put it on hold indefinitely, several sources said. (Fiore, 9/9)
Former CDC director will tell her side to senators 鈥
The Senate committee that oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will hold a hearing next week with testimony from former CDC Director Susan Monarez, whom the Trump administration abruptly fired last month after she refused to resign under pressure. The hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, chaired by Bill Cassidy, R-La., will take place Sept. 17 and focus on oversight of the CDC. (Leach, Thorp V and Richards, 9/10)
More health news from the Trump administration 鈥
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration鈥檚 attempt to subpoena medical records of transgender patients who received gender-affirming care at Boston Children鈥檚 Hospital. In a ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Myong Joun said the administrative subpoena served by the U.S. Department of Justice was improper and 鈥渕otivated only by bad faith.鈥 The Justice Department said the information was needed to investigate possible fraud or unlawful off-label promotion of drugs, but the information requested 鈥 including actual patient records 鈥 seemed to be unrelated, the judge said. (Boone, 9/10)
麻豆女优 Health News: Trump鈥檚 Medicaid Cuts Were Aimed At 鈥楢ble-Bodied Adults.鈥 Hospitals Say Kids Will Be Hurt
Republicans insist that President Donald Trump鈥檚 cuts to Medicaid were aimed at reducing fraud and getting more of its adult beneficiaries into jobs. But the side effects may include less care for sick kids. Some children鈥檚 hospitals collectively stand to lose billions of dollars in revenue once Trump鈥檚 wide-ranging tax and spending law, which Republicans called the 鈥淥ne Big Beautiful Bill,鈥 is fully enacted, according to the Children鈥檚 Hospital Association. (Galewitz, 9/10)
In the weeks leading up to July 9, Ayman Soliman told friends he was terrified of losing the sanctuary he鈥檇 found after fleeing Egypt in 2014 and building a new life as a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children鈥檚 Hospital. Soliman, 51, was to show up at 9 a.m. on that date for his first check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement since losing his asylum status. He鈥檇 been granted the protections in 2018 under the first Trump administration. (Allam, 9/9)