{"id":18551,"date":"2025-04-10T13:30:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/cdc-faces-backlash-for-cutting-sickle-cell-adult-disability-programs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:30:49","slug":"cdc-faces-backlash-for-cutting-sickle-cell-adult-disability-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/cdc-faces-backlash-for-cutting-sickle-cell-adult-disability-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC faces backlash for cutting sickle cell, adult disability programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Nearly half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s staff working on developmental disabilities and birth defects was laid off this month, multiple officials tell CBS News, wiping out teams working on research about adults with cognitive disabilities and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/sickle-cell-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sickle cell disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Work likely to be halted by the cuts includes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/sickle-cell\/scdc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">collection of data<\/a> for studying Americans with <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fda-approves-gene-editing-breakthrough-sickle-cell-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sickle cell<\/a><\/span>, a painful blood disorder that predominantly affects Black families, as well as supporting testing for its more dangerous complications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it is not restored, it will disrupt life-saving public health programs, halt critical research, and increase preventable hospitalizations, complications, and deaths. Its elimination runs counter to the Administration&#8217;s stated commitment to addressing chronic disease,&#8221; said Dr. Belinda Avalos, president of the American Society of Hematology, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hematology.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2025\/ash-and-90-organizations-call-for-hhs-to-immediately-restore-cdcs-division-of-blood-disorders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Health and Human Services Secretary <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-interview-takeaways-measles-food-dyes-weight-loss-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a><\/span> has <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-hhs-job-cuts-doge-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">expressed openness<\/a><\/span> to restoring some programs he gutted, like the CDC&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-hhs-layoffs-cdc-lead-poisoning\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">lead poisoning<\/a><\/span> experts, though for now they have yet to be reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HHS is following the Administration&#8217;s guidance and taking a careful look at all divisions to see where there is overlap that could be streamlined to support the President&#8217;s broader efforts to restructure the federal government. This is to ensure that HHS better serves the American people at the highest and most efficient standard,&#8221; HHS spokesperson Vianca Rodriguez Feliciano said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the blood disorders division, Kennedy&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hhs-layoffs-federal-agencies-track-disease-regulate-food-health-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">layoffs<\/a><\/span> wiped out the entire leadership team atop CDC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/about\/pdf\/organization\/ncbddd-org-chart.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities<\/a> that housed it. Support staff for the center, as well as its Disability and Health Promotion Branch, were also cut.<\/p>\n<p>That branch had been responsible for a federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/dhds\/about\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">database<\/a> tracking state-level rates of adults with disabilities. Researchers and health authorities rely on the data to target resources where they&#8217;re needed most, and to study patterns and trends in disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>A now-stalled upcoming release of data had been expected to help shed light on a recent increase in cognitive disability among younger adults, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There seems to be a step back to see developmental disabilities, like autism, being only in childhood. The branch provided key public health expertise for disability in adulthood, where people spend most of their lives,&#8221; said a current CDC official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>It has also ended work on the congressionally mandated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hearing-loss-children\/state-programs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Early Hearing Detection and Intervention<\/a> programs, which fund states and other efforts to screen and diagnose children&#8217;s hearing issues.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all U.S. newborns are now screened for hearing loss thanks in part to the program, according to the center&#8217;s data, up from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm5241a1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">less than half<\/a> of newborns 25 years ago. States had also been working with the branch on efforts to increase\u00a0 follow-up rates.<\/p>\n<p>Also eliminated in the cuts were CDC staff overseeing a partnership with the Special Olympics \u2014 an organization founded by Kennedy&#8217;s aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and now chaired by his cousin, Timothy Shriver. The CDC program had provided health screenings and collected data on people with intellectual disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Only a handful of researchers remain on the job in the center, in the agency&#8217;s Child and Development and Disability Branch and Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders.<\/p>\n<p>This includes researchers working on the CDC&#8217;s autism monitoring network, which produce figures that Kennedy has often cited as evidence that rates of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/children-diagnosed-developmental-disability-autism-cdc-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">autism<\/a><\/span> are on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those remaining staff are expected to be merged into Kennedy&#8217;s new Administration for a Healthy America agency, two officials said, along with staff from the CDC&#8217;s centers focused on chronic disease and drug overdoses.<\/p>\n<p>HHS had previously said that AHA would combine teams from several agencies, including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Matt Buzzelli, the Trump administration&#8217;s chief of staff at the agency, has told aides that Kennedy sees AHA as a &#8220;flagship&#8221; agency for Kennedy&#8217;s legacy, two officials said, housing most of the work on his priorities to combat chronic disease.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/alexander-tin\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Alexander  Tin<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. 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