Court Orders CDC, FDA to Restore Scrubbed Webpages, Data | MedPage Today

"A federal judge on Tuesday ordered government agencies

opens in a new tab or window to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets that they removed to comply with an executive order by President Trump.

U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington agreed to issue a temporary restraining order requested by the Doctors for Americaopens in a new tab or window advocacy group. The judge instructed the government to restore access to several webpages and datasets that the group identified as missing from websites and to identify others that also were taken down "without adequate notice or reasoned explanation." ...

The scrubbed materialopens in a new tab or window includes reports on HIV prevention, a CDC webpage for providing clinicians with guidance on reproductive healthcare, and an FDA study on "sex differences in the clinical evaluation of medical products."

Removing important information from the CDC and FDA websites is delaying patient care, hampering research, and hindering doctors' ability to communicate with patients, the plaintiffs' attorneys argued in a court filing...."