{"id":8363,"date":"2025-09-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=8363"},"modified":"2025-09-21T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:00:00","slug":"journalists-follow-the-fallout-of-cdc-directors-firing-and-trumps-health-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=8363","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Follow the Fallout of CDC Director\u2019s Firing and Trump\u2019s Health Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed the Senate hearing of former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez on WBUR\u2019s \u201cHere &amp; Now\u201d on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Rovner also delved into the \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d report on children\u2019s health on WNYC\u2019s \u201cThe Brian Lehrer Show\u201d on Sept. 16 and on C-SPAN\u2019s \u201cWashington Journal\u201d on Sept. 12. During that C-SPAN appearance, she also covered the debate over extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2025\/09\/17\/cdc-director-senate-testimony\">Click here to hear Rovner on \u201cHere &amp; Now.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/mahas-report-childrens-health-supportive-housing-units-sitting-empty-jill-lepore-us-constitution-changing-your-faith\/\">Click here to hear Rovner on \u201cThe Brian Lehrer Show.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/washington-journal\/julie-rovner-on-debate-over-aca-subsidies-and-make-america-healthy-again-report\/665543\">Click here to watch Rovner on \u201cWashington Journal.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony discussed Larry Black Jr., a young man whose organs were nearly harvested before a surgeon intervened, on KMOX\u2019s \u201cTotal Information AM\u201d on Sept. 17. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kmox\/news\/local\/surgical-team-about-to-harvest-organs-doctor-intervened\">Click here to hear Anthony on \u201cTotal Information AM.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Anthony\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/organ-donation-transplant-harvesting-still-alive-missouri-st-louis\/\">A Surgical Team Was About To Harvest This Man\u2019s Organs \u2014 Until His Doctor Intervened<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News correspondent Rachana Pradhan discussed the upheaval at the National Cancer Institute under the Trump administration on WAMU\u2019s \u201c1A\u201d on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/segments\/the-future-of-cancer-research-in-the-united-states\/\">Click here to hear Pradhan on \u201c1A.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Pradhan\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/national-cancer-institute-nih-cuts-chaos-scientific-biomedical-research\/\">World\u2019s Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos<\/a>,\u201d with reporting from Arthur Allen. <\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Arthur Allen discussed the FDA\u2019s move away from expert reviews of new drugs on CBS News\u2019 \u201cCBS News 24\/7\u201d on Sept 15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lBihLc14cIY\">Click here to watch Allen on \u201cCBS News 24\/7.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Allen\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/fda-advisory-committee-meetings-response-letters-makary-transparency-drugs\/\">Under Trump, FDA Seeks To Abandon Expert Reviews of New Drugs<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News senior health policy correspondent Stephanie Armour discussed the impact of federal health care funding cuts on states on PBS NewsHour on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l9kSyaU2aQo\">Click here to watch Armour on PBS NewsHour.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Armour\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/state-budget-fallout-trump-health-funding-cuts-obbba\/\">In the Fallout From Trump\u2019s Health Funding Cuts, States Face Tough Budget Decisions<\/a>,\u201d with reporting from Christine Mai-Duc, Sam Whitehead, and Arielle Zionts.<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed the September meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on WUGA\u2019s \u201cThe Georgia Health Report\u201d on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuga.org\/show\/wuga-health-desk\/2025-09-12\/georgia-health-report-what-will-the-cdcs-vaccine-recommendation-panel-decide\">Click here to hear Whitehead on \u201cThe Georgia Health Report.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Jackie Forti\u00e9r\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/acip-hhs-cdc-rfk-hepatitis-hep-b-newborn-childhood-vaccine-recommendation-change\/\">RFK Jr.\u2019s Vaccine Panel Expected To Recommend Delaying Hepatitis B Shot for Children<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/on-air-september-20-2025-cdc-director-firing-rfk-trump-health-funding\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed the Senate hearing of former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez on WBUR\u2019s \u201cHere &amp; Now\u201d on Sept. 17. Rovner also delved into the \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d report on children\u2019s health on WNYC\u2019s \u201cThe Brian Lehrer Show\u201d on Sept. 16 and on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}