A federal judge has ordered the Department of Health and Human Servies, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to restore some information removed from agency websites since President Trump’s inauguration. I am not making that up. Judge John D. Bates, a gift to us from George W. Bush, has granted “a temporary restraining order sought by the group Doctors for America, which argued that its members used the websites when treating patients and conducting research.” [Pro Tip: If your doctor is searching HHS, FDA, or CDC public webpages to treat you, get a new doctor.]
Bates found that the challengers were likely to succeed in their claims that the Department Health and Human Services, CDC and FDA acted unlawfully when they stripped medical information from public-facing websites.
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