{"id":117710,"date":"2025-09-03T21:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117710\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:37:06","slug":"federal-officials-to-restore-health-and-science-data-after-lawsuit-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117710\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal officials to restore health and science data after lawsuit settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Federal officials have agreed to restore health-<\/a> and science-related webpages and data under to a lawsuit settlement with doctors groups and other organizations who sued.<\/p>\n

The settlement was announced this week by the lead plaintiffs in the case, the Washington State Medical Association.<\/p>\n

Soon after President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration, federal health officials deleted or removed information<\/a> on a range of topics including pregnancy risks, opioid-use disorder and the AIDS epidemic. The move was made in reaction to a Trump executive order that told agencies to stop using the term \u201cgender\u201d in federal policies and documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The administration saw it as a move to end the promotion of \u201cgender ideology.\u201d Doctors, scientists and public health advocates saw it as an \u201cegregious example of government overreach,\u201d says Dr. John Bramhall, the organization\u2019s president, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was trusted health information that vanished in a blink of an eye \u2014 resources that, among other things, physicians rely on to manage patients\u2019 health conditions and overall care,\u201d Bramhall said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has agreed to restore more than 100 websites and resources to the state they were in, said Graham Short, a spokesperson for the Washington State doctors\u2019 group. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect the sites will be restored in the coming weeks,\u201d Short said in an email.<\/p>\n

The case was filed in federal court in Seattle. The plaintiffs include, among others, the Vermont Medical Society, the Washington State Nurses Association and the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care.<\/p>\n

The defendants included U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and federal health agencies and officials who work under him.<\/p>\n

Federal officials responded to questions about the settlement with this statement: \u201cHHS remains committed to its mission of removing radical gender and DEI ideology from federal programs, subject to applicable law, to ensure taxpayer dollars deliver meaningful results for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case is similar to one filed in Washington, D.C., by Doctors for America and others against the government. That lawsuit also sought to force the government to restore health information to the public, and the two cases overlapped somewhat in the websites they targeted, Short said.<\/p>\n

In July, a judge in the Doctors for America case ordered restoration of websites. As of last week, 167 of the websites at issue had been restored and 33 were still under review, according to a court filing.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Federal officials have agreed to restore health- and science-related webpages and data under to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,13444,1376,26901,2841,84,392,65743,65742,7741,7738,14120,714,31566,3436,7675,61,65741,8116,38897,3642,8615],"class_list":["post-117710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-courts","tag-donald-trump","tag-executive-orders","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-inaugurations","tag-john-bramhall","tag-lawsuits","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-opioids","tag-politics","tag-pregnancy-and-childbirth","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-seattle","tag-technology","tag-u-s-department-of-health-and-human-services","tag-united-states-government","tag-wa-state-wire","tag-washington","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}