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He has been promoting Calabrese’s theory of healthy radiation on his blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jan Beyea, a physicist whose work includes research with the National Academies of Science on the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, said the EPA science proposal represents voices “generally dismissed by the great bulk of scientists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA proposal would lead to “increases in chemical and radiation exposures in the workplace, home and outdoor environment, including the vicinity of Superfund sites,” Beyea wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"OkuppunSHp3SM2JTUqdGMPaVNCwP9BBK\"]At the level the EPA website talks about, any one person’s risk of cancer from radiation exposure is perhaps 1 percent, Beyea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The individual risk will likely be low, but not the cumulative social risk,” Beyea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they even look at that — no, no, no,” said Terrie Barrie, a resident of Craig, Colorado, and an advocate for her husband and other workers at the now-closed Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant, where the U.S. government is compensating certain cancer victims regardless of their history of exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no reason not to protect people as much as possible,” said Barrie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. agencies for decades have followed a policy that there is no threshold of radiation exposure that is risk-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements reaffirmed that principle this year after a review of 29 public health studies on cancer rates among people exposed to low-dose radiation, via the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in World War II, leak-prone Soviet nuclear installations, medical treatments and other sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty of the 29 studies directly support the principle that even low-dose exposures cause a significant increase in cancer rates, said Roy Shore, chief of research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, a joint project of the United States and Japan. Scientists found most of the other studies were inconclusive and decided one was flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None supported the theory there is some safe threshold for radiation, said Shore, who chaired the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there were a threshold that it’s safe to go below, “those who profess that would have to come up with some data,” Shore said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly the evidence did not point that way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which regulates electronic devices that emit radiation, advises, broadly, that a single CT scan with a dose of 10 millisieverts may increase risks of a fatal cancer by about 1 chance in 2,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the proposal say it’s time to rethink radiation regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we spend an enormous effort trying to minimize low doses” at nuclear power plants, for example, said Brant Ulsh, a physicist with the California-based consulting firm M.H. Chew and Associates. “Instead, let’s spend the resources on minimizing the effect of a really big event.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1538554376,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1277},"headData":{"title":"Trump EPA Set to Weaken Limits on Radiation Exposure | KQED","description":"The EPA is pursuing rule changes that experts say would weaken the way radiation exposure is regulated, turning to scientific outliers who argue that a bit of radiation damage is actually good for you — like a little bit of sunlight. The government’s current, decades-old guidance says that any exposure to harmful radiation is","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Trump EPA Set to Weaken Limits on Radiation Exposure","datePublished":"2018-10-03T15:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2018-10-03T08:12:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"444810 https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/?p=444810","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2018/10/03/trump-epa-set-to-weaken-limits-on-radiation-exposure/","disqusTitle":"Trump EPA Set to Weaken Limits on Radiation Exposure","source":"Health","nprByline":"Ellen Knickmeyer\u003cbr />The Associated Press","path":"/futureofyou/444810/trump-epa-set-to-weaken-limits-on-radiation-exposure","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The EPA is pursuing rule changes that experts say would weaken the way radiation exposure is regulated, turning to scientific outliers who argue that a bit of radiation damage is actually good for you — like a little bit of sunlight.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government’s current, decades-old guidance says that any exposure to harmful radiation is a cancer risk. And critics say the proposed change could lead to higher levels of exposure for workers at nuclear installations and oil and gas drilling sites, medical workers doing X-rays and CT scans, people living next to Superfund sites and any members of the public who one day might find themselves exposed to a radiation release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration already has targeted a range of other regulations on toxins and pollutants, including coal power plant emissions and car exhaust, that it sees as costly and burdensome for businesses. Supporters of the EPA’s proposal argue the government’s current model that there is no safe level of radiation — the so-called linear no-threshold model — forces unnecessary spending for handling exposure in accidents, at nuclear plants, in medical centers and at other sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule on transparency in science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA spokesman John Konkus said Tuesday: “The proposed regulation doesn’t talk about radiation or any particular chemicals. And as we indicated in our response, EPA’s policy is to continue to use the linear-no-threshold model for population-level radiation protection purposes which would not, under the proposed regulation that has not been finalized, trigger any change in that policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an April news release announcing the proposed rule the agency quoted Edward Calabrese, a toxicologist at the University of Massachusetts who has said weakening limits on radiation exposure would save billions of dollars and have a positive impact on human health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rule would require regulators to consider “various threshold models across the exposure range” when it comes to dangerous substances. While it doesn’t specify radiation, the release quotes Calabrese calling the proposal “a major scientific step forward” in assessing the risk of “chemicals and radiation.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Konkus said the release was written during the tenure of former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. He could not explain why Calabrese was quoted citing the impact on radiation levels if the agency does not believe there would be any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calabrese was to be the lead witness at a congressional hearing Wednesday on the EPA proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radiation is everywhere, from potassium in bananas to the microwaves popping our popcorn. Most of it is benign. But what’s of concern is the higher-energy, shorter-wave radiation, like X-rays, that can penetrate and disrupt living cells, sometimes causing cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as this March, the EPA’s online guidelines for radiation effects advised: “Current science suggests there is some cancer risk from any exposure to radiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even exposures below 100 millisieverts” — an amount roughly equivalent to 25 chest X-rays or about 14 CT chest scans — “slightly increase the risk of getting cancer in the future,” the agency’s guidance said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that online guidance — separate from the rule-change proposal — was edited in July to add a section emphasizing the low individual odds of cancer: “According to radiation safety experts, radiation exposures of ... 100 millisieverts usually result in no harmful health effects, because radiation below these levels is a minor contributor to our overall cancer risk,” the revised policy says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calabrese and his supporters argue that smaller exposures of cell-damaging radiation and other carcinogens can serve as stressors that activate the body’s repair mechanisms and can make people healthier. They compare it to physical exercise or sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mainstream scientific consensus on radiation is based on deceptive science, says Calabrese, who argued in a 2014 essay for “righting the past deceptions and correcting the ongoing errors in environmental regulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA spokesman Konkus said in an email that the proposed rule change is about “increasing transparency on assumptions” about how the body responds to different doses of dangerous substances and that the agency “acknowledges uncertainty regarding health effects at low doses” and supports more research on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radiation regulation is supported by Steven Milloy, a Trump transition team member for the EPA who is known for challenging widely accepted ideas about manmade climate change and the health risks of tobacco. He has been promoting Calabrese’s theory of healthy radiation on his blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jan Beyea, a physicist whose work includes research with the National Academies of Science on the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, said the EPA science proposal represents voices “generally dismissed by the great bulk of scientists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA proposal would lead to “increases in chemical and radiation exposures in the workplace, home and outdoor environment, including the vicinity of Superfund sites,” Beyea wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>At the level the EPA website talks about, any one person’s risk of cancer from radiation exposure is perhaps 1 percent, Beyea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The individual risk will likely be low, but not the cumulative social risk,” Beyea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they even look at that — no, no, no,” said Terrie Barrie, a resident of Craig, Colorado, and an advocate for her husband and other workers at the now-closed Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant, where the U.S. government is compensating certain cancer victims regardless of their history of exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no reason not to protect people as much as possible,” said Barrie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. agencies for decades have followed a policy that there is no threshold of radiation exposure that is risk-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements reaffirmed that principle this year after a review of 29 public health studies on cancer rates among people exposed to low-dose radiation, via the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in World War II, leak-prone Soviet nuclear installations, medical treatments and other sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty of the 29 studies directly support the principle that even low-dose exposures cause a significant increase in cancer rates, said Roy Shore, chief of research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, a joint project of the United States and Japan. Scientists found most of the other studies were inconclusive and decided one was flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None supported the theory there is some safe threshold for radiation, said Shore, who chaired the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there were a threshold that it’s safe to go below, “those who profess that would have to come up with some data,” Shore said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly the evidence did not point that way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which regulates electronic devices that emit radiation, advises, broadly, that a single CT scan with a dose of 10 millisieverts may increase risks of a fatal cancer by about 1 chance in 2,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the proposal say it’s time to rethink radiation regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we spend an enormous effort trying to minimize low doses” at nuclear power plants, for example, said Brant Ulsh, a physicist with the California-based consulting firm M.H. Chew and Associates. “Instead, let’s spend the resources on minimizing the effect of a really big event.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/444810/trump-epa-set-to-weaken-limits-on-radiation-exposure","authors":["byline_futureofyou_444810"],"categories":["futureofyou_452","futureofyou_1"],"tags":["futureofyou_1176","futureofyou_38","futureofyou_61","futureofyou_1424"],"featImg":"futureofyou_444815","label":"source_futureofyou_444810"},"futureofyou_444641":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_444641","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"444641","score":null,"sort":[1538075041000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"governments-decision-to-review-research-of-fetal-tissue-blasted-as-political-move","title":"Is the Federal Government Politicizing Research Involving Fetal Tissue?","publishDate":1538075041,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 3:45 pm ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Health and Human Services says it is reviewing all medical research involving human fetal tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HHS \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2018/09/24/statement-from-the-department-of-health-and-human-services.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said this week\u003c/a> that it will conduct an audit of \"all acquisitions involving human fetal tissue\" as well as \"all research involving fetal tissue to ensure consistency with statutes and regulations governing such research and to ensure the adequacy of procedures and oversight of this research in light of the serious regulatory, moral, and ethical considerations involved.\"[contextly_sidebar id=\"SsrZIxp3cgGelsMqmovjR5mXFrobSZOz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, HHS announced that it has canceled \u003ca href=\"https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/search.do?q=advanced+bioscience+resources+VENDOR_DUNS_NUMBER%3A%22786845982%22&s=FPDSNG.COM&templateName=1.4.4&indexName=awardfull&sortBy=SIGNED_DATE&desc=Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $15,000 contract\u003c/a> for a California-based company called Advanced Bioscience Resources to provide the Food and Drug Administration with human fetal tissue to develop testing protocols. The contract was terminated, HHS said, because the department \"was not sufficiently assured that the contract included the appropriate protections applicable to fetal tissue research or met all other procurement requirements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists use fetal tissue in medical research because it grows quickly and is highly versatile and long-lasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It allows us to answer specific questions that can't be answered by adult tissue, which is far more specialized,\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NIH Associate Director for Science Policy Carrie Wolinetz \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/29/444214443/research-on-fetal-tissue-draws-renewed-political-scientific-scrutiny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told NPR's Rob Stein\u003c/a> in 2015. \"Fetal tissue can contain information — about structural features, or the architecture of organs — that cells in a dish alone can't provide. And this is sometimes very important to our understanding of disease.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fetal tissue used in scientific research often comes from aborted fetuses. In an email to NPR, \u003ca href=\"https://law.wisc.edu/profiles/racharo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alta Charo\u003c/a>, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, explains why that is.[contextly_sidebar id=\"G1kyrCYVpzDmWCInUE7H0cF8gc9zn4Ce\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Miscarriages are not often an available source, as they do not take place in a controlled environment and may be due to genetic or other anomalies that would render the cadaveric tissues useless,\" she says. \"Therefore, the tissue usually comes from a fetus that has been aborted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the small size of the canceled FDA contract, some observers said the larger political symbolism is evident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My instinct is that this is driven by politics, and is part of the overall effort to stigmatize and eventually criminalize abortion, as well as part of a larger campaign to roll-back the clock on sexual and reproductive rights,\" Charo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://lozierinstitute.org/team-member/david-prentice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Prentice\u003c/a>, vice president and research director for the Charlotte Lozier Institute, a conservative think tank opposed to abortion, says the HHS announcement doesn't go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Canceling a small FDA contract ... seems designed to mollify some Members of Congress and groups who were outraged by the continuing funding of fetal tissue research with taxpayer dollars,\" Prentice writes in an email to NPR. \"But what's needed is wholesale reform across the breadth of HHS. Use of fetal tissue is antiquated research, and [HHS Secretary Alex] Azar should redirect those funds to modern science and better alternatives, including adult stem cells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Science\u003c/em> notes that on earlier this month, 45 groups opposed to abortion \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Group-Letter-to-Azar-FDA-and-fetal-tissue-FINAL-with-Signatures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to Azar calling the FDA contract for fetal tissue \"shocking\" and \"unacceptable.\" A few days later, 85 members of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://chrissmith.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2018-09-17_-chs-hartzler-walker_letter_on_fda_fetal_tissue_contract.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to the FDA's commissioner, urging the agency to cancel the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Institutes of Health, which also falls under HHS, spent $98 million last fiscal year on research that involved human fetal tissue. The NIH said it \"concurs that it is important that research involving human fetal tissue should be consistent with the statutes and regulation governing such research and that it is important to have adequate procedures for oversight.\"[contextly_sidebar id=\"xJs8IF14XoPynhHrniTrS5E5qgAhyVmm\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use of fetal tissue in research has been controversial for some time, \u003cem>Science\u003c/em> magazine reported on Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"In 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://energycommerce.house.gov/news/press-release/house-creates-select-panel-investigate-handling-infant-lives/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican members of the House of Representatives\u003c/a>, led by Representative Marsha Blackburn (TN), \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/fact-checking-congress-s-fetal-tissue-report\">produced a report\u003c/a> that urged the federal government to transition to obtaining fetal tissue from miscarriages and stillbirths. But opponents of fetal tissue research have failed repeatedly to pass legislation that would end funding for research using tissue from electively aborted fetuses — most recently earlier this month, when language prohibiting such funding was stripped from a 2019 HHS spending bill.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://trentcenter.duke.edu/node/221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ross McKinney\u003c/a>, chief scientific officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges, says fetal tissue was key in the development of major medical advances such as vaccines for polio, rubella, measles, chickenpox, adenovirus and rabies, as well as treatments for diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, cystic fibrosis and hemophilia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The unique characteristics of this tissue are essential to the study of fetal diseases, like those caused by Zika virus, and hold promise for advancing biomedical research in other areas as well, bringing hope to patients struggling with diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and multiple sclerosis,\" he writes in an email to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fetal tissue continues to be an important resource for biomedical research, and the Association of American Medical Colleges fully supports its availability as one of the scientific methods that could save and improve lives.\"[contextly_sidebar id=\"GY9wMG5EY8EjMrFWoS2AArgcQmiE5UTu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/01/28/464594826/in-wake-of-videos-planned-parenthood-investigations-find-no-fetal-tissue-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 2015 brouhaha\u003c/a>, the Obama-era HHS \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/3514/4709/3497/HHS_Letter_2015_08_14_-_FT_Research.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to two Republican senators calling the use of fetal tissue in medical research \"an instrumental component of our attempts to understand, treat, and cure a number of conditions and diseases that affect millions of Americans,\" noting that scientists in the U.S. have been working with fetal tissue \u003ca href=\"https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44129.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since the 1930s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR science correspondent Rob Stein contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Health+And+Human+Services+Says+It%27s+Reviewing+Use+Of+Fetal+Tissue+For+Research&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The audit has been called a political gesture to placate anti-abortion groups that oppose use of the tissue. 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The contract was terminated, HHS said, because the department \"was not sufficiently assured that the contract included the appropriate protections applicable to fetal tissue research or met all other procurement requirements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists use fetal tissue in medical research because it grows quickly and is highly versatile and long-lasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It allows us to answer specific questions that can't be answered by adult tissue, which is far more specialized,\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NIH Associate Director for Science Policy Carrie Wolinetz \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/29/444214443/research-on-fetal-tissue-draws-renewed-political-scientific-scrutiny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told NPR's Rob Stein\u003c/a> in 2015. \"Fetal tissue can contain information — about structural features, or the architecture of organs — that cells in a dish alone can't provide. And this is sometimes very important to our understanding of disease.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fetal tissue used in scientific research often comes from aborted fetuses. In an email to NPR, \u003ca href=\"https://law.wisc.edu/profiles/racharo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alta Charo\u003c/a>, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, explains why that is.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Miscarriages are not often an available source, as they do not take place in a controlled environment and may be due to genetic or other anomalies that would render the cadaveric tissues useless,\" she says. \"Therefore, the tissue usually comes from a fetus that has been aborted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the small size of the canceled FDA contract, some observers said the larger political symbolism is evident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My instinct is that this is driven by politics, and is part of the overall effort to stigmatize and eventually criminalize abortion, as well as part of a larger campaign to roll-back the clock on sexual and reproductive rights,\" Charo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://lozierinstitute.org/team-member/david-prentice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Prentice\u003c/a>, vice president and research director for the Charlotte Lozier Institute, a conservative think tank opposed to abortion, says the HHS announcement doesn't go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Canceling a small FDA contract ... seems designed to mollify some Members of Congress and groups who were outraged by the continuing funding of fetal tissue research with taxpayer dollars,\" Prentice writes in an email to NPR. \"But what's needed is wholesale reform across the breadth of HHS. Use of fetal tissue is antiquated research, and [HHS Secretary Alex] Azar should redirect those funds to modern science and better alternatives, including adult stem cells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Science\u003c/em> notes that on earlier this month, 45 groups opposed to abortion \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Group-Letter-to-Azar-FDA-and-fetal-tissue-FINAL-with-Signatures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to Azar calling the FDA contract for fetal tissue \"shocking\" and \"unacceptable.\" A few days later, 85 members of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://chrissmith.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2018-09-17_-chs-hartzler-walker_letter_on_fda_fetal_tissue_contract.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to the FDA's commissioner, urging the agency to cancel the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Institutes of Health, which also falls under HHS, spent $98 million last fiscal year on research that involved human fetal tissue. The NIH said it \"concurs that it is important that research involving human fetal tissue should be consistent with the statutes and regulation governing such research and that it is important to have adequate procedures for oversight.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use of fetal tissue in research has been controversial for some time, \u003cem>Science\u003c/em> magazine reported on Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"In 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://energycommerce.house.gov/news/press-release/house-creates-select-panel-investigate-handling-infant-lives/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican members of the House of Representatives\u003c/a>, led by Representative Marsha Blackburn (TN), \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/fact-checking-congress-s-fetal-tissue-report\">produced a report\u003c/a> that urged the federal government to transition to obtaining fetal tissue from miscarriages and stillbirths. But opponents of fetal tissue research have failed repeatedly to pass legislation that would end funding for research using tissue from electively aborted fetuses — most recently earlier this month, when language prohibiting such funding was stripped from a 2019 HHS spending bill.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://trentcenter.duke.edu/node/221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ross McKinney\u003c/a>, chief scientific officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges, says fetal tissue was key in the development of major medical advances such as vaccines for polio, rubella, measles, chickenpox, adenovirus and rabies, as well as treatments for diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, cystic fibrosis and hemophilia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The unique characteristics of this tissue are essential to the study of fetal diseases, like those caused by Zika virus, and hold promise for advancing biomedical research in other areas as well, bringing hope to patients struggling with diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and multiple sclerosis,\" he writes in an email to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fetal tissue continues to be an important resource for biomedical research, and the Association of American Medical Colleges fully supports its availability as one of the scientific methods that could save and improve lives.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/01/28/464594826/in-wake-of-videos-planned-parenthood-investigations-find-no-fetal-tissue-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 2015 brouhaha\u003c/a>, the Obama-era HHS \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/3514/4709/3497/HHS_Letter_2015_08_14_-_FT_Research.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to two Republican senators calling the use of fetal tissue in medical research \"an instrumental component of our attempts to understand, treat, and cure a number of conditions and diseases that affect millions of Americans,\" noting that scientists in the U.S. have been working with fetal tissue \u003ca href=\"https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44129.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since the 1930s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR science correspondent Rob Stein contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Health+And+Human+Services+Says+It%27s+Reviewing+Use+Of+Fetal+Tissue+For+Research&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/444641/governments-decision-to-review-research-of-fetal-tissue-blasted-as-political-move","authors":["byline_futureofyou_444641"],"categories":["futureofyou_1","futureofyou_73","futureofyou_1064"],"tags":["futureofyou_342","futureofyou_1176","futureofyou_1615","futureofyou_294"],"collections":["futureofyou_1094"],"featImg":"futureofyou_444642","label":"source_futureofyou_444641"},"futureofyou_443912":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_443912","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"443912","score":null,"sort":[1534176041000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mounting-calls-for-epa-to-regulate-contaminated-water-across-the-country","title":"Mounting Calls For EPA to Regulate Contaminated Water Across the Country","publishDate":1534176041,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Lauren Woeher wonders if her 16-month-old daughter has been harmed by tap water contaminated with toxic industrial compounds used in products like nonstick cookware, carpets and fast-food wrappers. Henry Betz, at 76, rattles around his house alone at night, thinking about the water his family unknowingly drank for years that was tainted by the same contaminants, and the pancreatic cancers that killed wife Betty Jean and two others in his household.[contextly_sidebar id=\"9NIwMAIiqs6rEwIhTconMwoE0dxPnLXq\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Hagey, manager of a local water utility, recalls how he used to assure people that the local public water was safe. That was before testing showed it had some of the highest levels of the toxic compounds of any public water system in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You all made me out to be a liar,” Hagey, general water and sewer manager in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Warminster, told Environmental Protection Agency officials last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At “community engagement sessions” like the one in Horsham, residents and state, local and military officials are demanding that the EPA act quickly — and decisively — to clean up local water systems testing positive for dangerous levels of the chemicals, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You all made me out to be a liar.’\u003ccite>Tim Hagey, manager at a Pennsylvania water utility\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The EPA is being urged to regulate a group of chemicals that are contaminating the public water supply in dozens of states. The group of chemicals known as PFAS were used in everything from nonstick cookware to firefighting foam. (Aug. 13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration called the contamination “a potential public relations nightmare” earlier this year after federal toxicology studies found that some of the compounds are more hazardous than previously acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PFAS have been in production since the 1940s, and there are about 3,500 different types. Dumped into water, the air or soil, some forms of the compounds are expected to remain intact for thousands of years; one public-health expert dubbed them “forever chemicals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA testing from 2013 to 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states. The finding helped move PFAS up as a national priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Risks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So did scientific studies that firmed up the health risks. One, looking at a kind of PFAS once used in making Teflon, found a probable link with kidney and testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, hypertension in pregnant women and high cholesterol. Other recent studies point to immune problems in children, among other things.[contextly_sidebar id=\"huKONbhmEHy7kYoS4ySN0SNE56qwgBNB\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Lack of Enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the EPA set advisory limits — without any direct enforcement — for two kinds of PFAS that had recently been phased out of production in the United States. But manufacturers are still producing, and releasing into the air and water, newer versions of the compounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, federal toxicologists decided that even the EPA’s 2016 advisory levels for the two phased-out versions of the compound were several times too high for safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA says it will prepare a national management plan for the compounds by the end of the year. But Peter Grevatt, director of the agency’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, told The Associated Press that there’s no deadline for a decision on possible regulatory actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviews of the data, and studies to gather more, are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as the Trump administration says it advocates for clean air and water, it is ceding more regulation to the states and putting a hold on some regulations seen as burdensome to business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Horsham and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained PFAS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that you can’t bring back three people that I lost,” Betz, a retired airman, told the federal officials at the Horsham meeting. “But they’re gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers complained of “a lack of urgency and incompetency” on the part of EPA.[contextly_sidebar id=\"PGPYtG1rl6zSWqpXtYjoruRWaAdQh7WO\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It absolutely disgusts me that the federal government would put PR concerns ahead of public health concerns,” Republican state Rep. Todd Stephens declared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, Woeher questioned why it took so long to tell the public about the dangers of the compounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew they had seeped into the water, and they didn’t tell anybody about it until it was revealed and they had to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at her home with her toddler nearby, she asked, “Is this something that, you know, I have to worry? It’s in her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While contamination of drinking water around military bases and factories gets most of the attention, the EPA says 80 percent of human exposure comes from consumer products in the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chemical industry says it believes the versions of the nonstick, stain-resistant compounds in use now are safe, in part because they don’t stay in the body as long as older versions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an industry today ... we’re very forthcoming meeting any kind of regulatory requirement to disclose any kind of adverse data,” said Jessica Bowman, a senior director at the American Chemistry Council trade group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent academics and government regulators say they don’t fully share the industry’s expressed confidence about the safety of PFAS versions now in use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While EPA considers its next step, states are taking action to tackle PFAS contamination on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Delaware, National Guard troops handed out water after high levels of PFAS were found in a town’s water supply. Michigan last month ordered residents of two towns to stop drinking or cooking with their water, after PFAS was found at 20 times the EPA’s 2016 advisory level. In New Jersey, officials urged fishermen to eat some kinds of fish no more than once a year because of PFAS [contextly_sidebar id=\"7nHj1AJqYzx56nUaIoVCUx97LsdUJtGl\"]contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington became the first state to ban any firefighting foam with the compound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the findings on the compounds, alarm bells “should be ringing four out of five” at the EPA, Kerrigan Clough, a former deputy regional EPA administrator, said in an interview with the AP as he waited for a test for PFAS in the water at his Michigan lake home, which is near a military base that used firefighting foam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the risk appears to be high, and you’ve got it every place, then you’ve got a different level” of danger and urgency, Clough said. “It’s a serious problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Problems with PFAS surfaced partly as a result of a 1999 lawsuit by a farmer who filmed his cattle staggering, frothing and dying in a field near a DuPont disposal site in Parkersburg, West Virginia, for PFAS then used in Teflon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, under President George W. Bush, the EPA and DuPont settled an EPA complaint that the chemical company knew at least by the mid-1980s that the early PFAS compound posed a substantial risk to human health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA in the past “didn’t have much of a hammer to come down on a bad existing chemical,” said Lynn Goldman, the agency’s assistant administrator over toxic substances in the 1990s, now dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congress has boosted the agency’s authority to regulate problematic chemicals since then. That includes toughening up the federal Toxic Substances Control Act and regulatory mandates for the EPA itself in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For PFAS, that should include addressing the new versions of the compounds coming into production, not just tackling old forms that companies already agreed to take offline, Goldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise it’s the game of whack-a-mole,” she said. “That’s not what you want to do when you’re protecting the public health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online: EPA site on PFAS: \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/pfas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.epa.gov/pfas\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Trump administration called the contamination “a potential public relations nightmare” earlier this year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1534174489,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":1373},"headData":{"title":"Mounting Calls For EPA to Regulate Contaminated Water Across the Country | KQED","description":"The Trump administration called the contamination “a potential public relations nightmare” earlier this year.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Mounting Calls For EPA to Regulate Contaminated Water Across the Country","datePublished":"2018-08-13T16:00:41.000Z","dateModified":"2018-08-13T15:34:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"443912 https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/?p=443912","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2018/08/13/mounting-calls-for-epa-to-regulate-contaminated-water-across-the-country/","disqusTitle":"Mounting Calls For EPA to Regulate Contaminated Water Across the Country","source":"Health","nprByline":"Ellen Knickmeyer\u003cbr />The Associated Press","path":"/futureofyou/443912/mounting-calls-for-epa-to-regulate-contaminated-water-across-the-country","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lauren Woeher wonders if her 16-month-old daughter has been harmed by tap water contaminated with toxic industrial compounds used in products like nonstick cookware, carpets and fast-food wrappers. Henry Betz, at 76, rattles around his house alone at night, thinking about the water his family unknowingly drank for years that was tainted by the same contaminants, and the pancreatic cancers that killed wife Betty Jean and two others in his household.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Hagey, manager of a local water utility, recalls how he used to assure people that the local public water was safe. That was before testing showed it had some of the highest levels of the toxic compounds of any public water system in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You all made me out to be a liar,” Hagey, general water and sewer manager in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Warminster, told Environmental Protection Agency officials last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At “community engagement sessions” like the one in Horsham, residents and state, local and military officials are demanding that the EPA act quickly — and decisively — to clean up local water systems testing positive for dangerous levels of the chemicals, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You all made me out to be a liar.’\u003ccite>Tim Hagey, manager at a Pennsylvania water utility\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The EPA is being urged to regulate a group of chemicals that are contaminating the public water supply in dozens of states. The group of chemicals known as PFAS were used in everything from nonstick cookware to firefighting foam. (Aug. 13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration called the contamination “a potential public relations nightmare” earlier this year after federal toxicology studies found that some of the compounds are more hazardous than previously acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PFAS have been in production since the 1940s, and there are about 3,500 different types. Dumped into water, the air or soil, some forms of the compounds are expected to remain intact for thousands of years; one public-health expert dubbed them “forever chemicals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA testing from 2013 to 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states. The finding helped move PFAS up as a national priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Risks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So did scientific studies that firmed up the health risks. One, looking at a kind of PFAS once used in making Teflon, found a probable link with kidney and testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, hypertension in pregnant women and high cholesterol. Other recent studies point to immune problems in children, among other things.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Lack of Enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the EPA set advisory limits — without any direct enforcement — for two kinds of PFAS that had recently been phased out of production in the United States. But manufacturers are still producing, and releasing into the air and water, newer versions of the compounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, federal toxicologists decided that even the EPA’s 2016 advisory levels for the two phased-out versions of the compound were several times too high for safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA says it will prepare a national management plan for the compounds by the end of the year. But Peter Grevatt, director of the agency’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, told The Associated Press that there’s no deadline for a decision on possible regulatory actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviews of the data, and studies to gather more, are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as the Trump administration says it advocates for clean air and water, it is ceding more regulation to the states and putting a hold on some regulations seen as burdensome to business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Horsham and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained PFAS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that you can’t bring back three people that I lost,” Betz, a retired airman, told the federal officials at the Horsham meeting. “But they’re gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers complained of “a lack of urgency and incompetency” on the part of EPA.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It absolutely disgusts me that the federal government would put PR concerns ahead of public health concerns,” Republican state Rep. Todd Stephens declared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, Woeher questioned why it took so long to tell the public about the dangers of the compounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew they had seeped into the water, and they didn’t tell anybody about it until it was revealed and they had to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at her home with her toddler nearby, she asked, “Is this something that, you know, I have to worry? It’s in her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While contamination of drinking water around military bases and factories gets most of the attention, the EPA says 80 percent of human exposure comes from consumer products in the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chemical industry says it believes the versions of the nonstick, stain-resistant compounds in use now are safe, in part because they don’t stay in the body as long as older versions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an industry today ... we’re very forthcoming meeting any kind of regulatory requirement to disclose any kind of adverse data,” said Jessica Bowman, a senior director at the American Chemistry Council trade group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent academics and government regulators say they don’t fully share the industry’s expressed confidence about the safety of PFAS versions now in use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While EPA considers its next step, states are taking action to tackle PFAS contamination on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Delaware, National Guard troops handed out water after high levels of PFAS were found in a town’s water supply. Michigan last month ordered residents of two towns to stop drinking or cooking with their water, after PFAS was found at 20 times the EPA’s 2016 advisory level. In New Jersey, officials urged fishermen to eat some kinds of fish no more than once a year because of PFAS \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington became the first state to ban any firefighting foam with the compound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the findings on the compounds, alarm bells “should be ringing four out of five” at the EPA, Kerrigan Clough, a former deputy regional EPA administrator, said in an interview with the AP as he waited for a test for PFAS in the water at his Michigan lake home, which is near a military base that used firefighting foam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the risk appears to be high, and you’ve got it every place, then you’ve got a different level” of danger and urgency, Clough said. “It’s a serious problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Problems with PFAS surfaced partly as a result of a 1999 lawsuit by a farmer who filmed his cattle staggering, frothing and dying in a field near a DuPont disposal site in Parkersburg, West Virginia, for PFAS then used in Teflon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, under President George W. Bush, the EPA and DuPont settled an EPA complaint that the chemical company knew at least by the mid-1980s that the early PFAS compound posed a substantial risk to human health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA in the past “didn’t have much of a hammer to come down on a bad existing chemical,” said Lynn Goldman, the agency’s assistant administrator over toxic substances in the 1990s, now dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congress has boosted the agency’s authority to regulate problematic chemicals since then. That includes toughening up the federal Toxic Substances Control Act and regulatory mandates for the EPA itself in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For PFAS, that should include addressing the new versions of the compounds coming into production, not just tackling old forms that companies already agreed to take offline, Goldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise it’s the game of whack-a-mole,” she said. “That’s not what you want to do when you’re protecting the public health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online: EPA site on PFAS: \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/pfas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.epa.gov/pfas\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/443912/mounting-calls-for-epa-to-regulate-contaminated-water-across-the-country","authors":["byline_futureofyou_443912"],"categories":["futureofyou_1"],"tags":["futureofyou_1596","futureofyou_1176","futureofyou_38","futureofyou_1511"],"featImg":"futureofyou_443915","label":"source_futureofyou_443912"},"futureofyou_443202":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_443202","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"443202","score":null,"sort":[1530892837000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"my-son-is-not-the-same-new-testimony-paints-bleak-picture-of-family-separation","title":"New Testimony Paints Bleak Picture of Family Separation","publishDate":1530892837,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Last week, Democratic attorneys general in 17 states and the District of Columbia \u003ca href=\"https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploadedfiles/Another/News/Press_Releases/complaint_6.pdf\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against the Trump administration, arguing that its family separation policy violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fifth Amendment. Now, in a new filing, they’re asking the federal government to provide more immediate information and access to those detained under the policy on an “expedited schedule.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"Ia0vmAO4LjpX4fPD28WIz4H7lzlRAfCw\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The motion \u003ca href=\"https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/child_declarations.pdf\">filed Monday\u003c/a> came with more than 900 pages of declarations that included personal testimonies from parents, children and other family members who were directly impacted by the Trump policy. It also included declarations from the state attorneys general offices, elected representatives, advocates and child and immigration experts who have dealt with families separated at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump signed an executive order on June 20, halting the separation practice and ordering families to be detained together instead. But in a statement, the attorneys general criticized the administration’s response. “Hundreds of separated parents are in federal custody and the Administration can move them to other facilities at any time without notice,” they said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The PBS NewsHour reached out to the federal agencies involved in the separation of families at the border — the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services; U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — for a response. All said they were unable to comment on ongoing litigation. The Department of Justice also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday the agency was prepared to reunite separated children with their parents, and would prioritize children under age 5 starting next week. But Azar, speaking to reporters, said families that have been reunited could still experience long stays in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how the lawsuit filed by the attorneys general would impact the administration’s efforts to reunify separated families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NewsHour read through all 99 declarations and pulled 12 that offer a window into what’s has been happening under the family separation policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Parents Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“(My son) is not the same since we were reunited. I thought that, because he is so young he would not be traumatized by this experience, but he does not separate from me. He cries when he does not see me. That behavior is not normal. In El Salvador he would stay with his dad or my sister and not cry. Now he cries for fear of being alone.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Olivia Caceres was separated from her 1-year-old son in November at a legal point of entry. The boy’s father, who was seeking asylum, remains detained, Caceres said. It took three months for Caceres to get her son back from government custody. According to her testimony, she said that after reuniting with her toddler, “he continued to cry when we got home and would hold on to my leg and would not let me go. When I took off his clothes he was full of dirt and lice. It seemed like they had not bathed him the 85 days he was away from us.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"1wKaQAyAkuqMNlxTuDwuLOdhBF0iL0do\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“They told me to sign a consent form to take my daughter, but that it did not matter whether or not I signed, because they were going to take her either way.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Angelica Rebeca Gonzalez-Garcia was apprehended and separated from her 7-year-old daughter in May. She hasn’t seen her since. She said officers at the border told her she would never see her daughter again, and that she had “‘endangered’ her by bringing her here,” she wrote. “I cannot express the pain and fear I felt at that point,” she wrote. Gonzalez-Garcia said she has spoken by phone to her daughter, who is currently in a shelter and said that she had been hit by a boy, was bruised and had gotten sick there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“…One of the officers asked me, “In Guatemala do they celebrate Mother’s Day?” When I answered yes he said, “then Happy Mother’s Day” because the next Sunday was Mother’s Day. I lowered my head so that my daughter would not see the tears forming in my eyes. That particular act of cruelty astonished me then as it does now. I could not understand why they hated me so much, or wanted to hurt me so much,” she wrote as part of her statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“For eight days I was held in a small room with over 60 men. We called it The Freezer because the air conditioning was so strong that we felt like ice. The men got sick inside and we had to sleep, use the toilet, and pass the time all in the same tiny room.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— “L. Doe,” the father to a 5-year-old son and 1.5-year-old daughter, wrote that he and his family presented themselves at a port of entry to apply for asylum. They were separated immediately. He remains in detention. “My thoughts run in circles, and I feel as though I am going to lose my mind. I need to see my family and take care of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“[The children] did not have shoes or blankets in the detention center, and there were people in the cells that had to sleep standing up. They did not have enough to eat either, and could not drink the water, because of the chlorine they added to it … the incarcerated children were insulted – called named such as “animals” and “donkeys.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ludin Jimenez said she was separated from her children, age 9 and 17, when she crossed the border in May seeking asylum. The family was reunited June 28 in Boston. She wrote that she was kept in a cell with nearly 50 other mothers. “The officers told them that they could not eat because they were asking about their children. There was a pregnant woman who fainted from hunger.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"kgvbnXUJ4dTVqfuwXPRufwHcqHZbww8t\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to her statement, Jimenez was not allowed “to bathe or brush her teeth for the eight days that she spent in the ‘dog pound.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was an immigration officer who was a good person. He said that he understood what was going on, but could not help. He brought them cookies, since he knew they did not get enough to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“I am worried about M.’s mental health when he learns that we have to start the process again and that he is not going to be released soon.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Francisco Serrano, a Washington, D.C., resident whose niece Maria crossed the U.S. border at San Ysidro in Southern California with her two children, age 2 and 7, as part of a caravan. A week later, a shelter called Serrano, informing him that Maria was going to separated from her children, and that she had asked for Serrano to be a sponsor. Serrano describes trying to become an approved sponsor as a process marked by complications and insufficient communication. In June, he said a social worker told him he would have to restart the sponsorship process again “because the rules changed.” Maria is on her way to Washington, D.C., but the boys are still in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 7-year-old, identified in the declaration as “M.”, “asked me why I had not picked him up yet,” Serrano wrote. “The social worker told me that [he] is depressed and asked me for words of encouragement to cheer him up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Officials Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“The guards would wake all the girls up at 4 a.m. to count them by kicking on their mats. … G cried when she told me she kept hoping her mother would show up to take her out of that horrible place, but that never happened. … G overheard a girl asking to make a phone call to her family, but she was told they did not allow girls to make phone calls while detained.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alma Poletti, an investigator for Washington’s attorney general, interviewed eight children who were separated from their families and sent to the Seattle area for care and detention. “The place was freezing …The girls placed their mats in the floor very close to one another, since there was not enough space to fit them more comfortably. Girls as young as 3 years old were detained in this place and without their mothers,” Poletti wrote. She said one girl, 14, referred to as “G,” “felt hungry most of the time she was there because the food they provided her wasn’t good in quality or quantity.” “G” couldn’t sleep through the night, Poletti added.[contextly_sidebar id=\"tuJ0OrkOp5NgO3h12FPqNLMIK4Avv8wi\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“The placement of children with sponsors who have not been subject to the degree of evaluation and screening required by New Jersey law in all other circumstances substantially increases the risk that such children will be abuse or neglected.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Christine Norbut-Beyer, the commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, said the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s rules for taking care of children placed in foster care are less rigorous than state laws in New Jersey. “The home study requirements in ORR policy also fall short of requirements imposed by New Jersey law on all other foster care or adoptive placements in the state,” she wrote. “This is important because it shows that a child’s conditions in custody under ORR might meet federal guidelines, but don’t meet state laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“ORR does not provide information to [relevant state agencies] about the specific location or placement of unaccompanied minors.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Marcela Ruiz, the chief of the Immigration and Refugees Program Branch of the California Department of Social Services, added in her statement that “state-funded programs that serve unaccompanied minors in California rely on the State’s funding to support outreach, identification, and referral services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Advocates Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“I simply cannot believe that my government could have done this to these people.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Taylor Levy, the legal coordinator for the nonprofit Annunciation House, testified that he had worked with asylum seekers at the border for nine years. “I have borne witness to countless stories of rape, torture and murder. Despite all of this, I have never been as emotionally impacted by anything as intensely as I have been working with these mothers and fathers as they desperately struggle to be reunited with their minor children.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"eILFCrc43gQ59B9CldIZ5zJbSKdKYrsu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“It is evident to [Kids in Need of Defense] that there is no consistent policy for ensuring communication among separated children and parents.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jennifer Podkul, policy director for KIND, which provides legal assistance to children in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Medical Experts Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Prolonged stress (also known as toxic stress) can permanently disrupt the structure and function of a child’s developing brain. These changes can manifest as greater likelihood of adopting unhealthy behaviors (e.g., smoking and illicit drug use), increased risk of diseases (e.g., obesity, heart disease and cancer), depression and socioeconomic inequalities.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"9mLnptrV4HdboTqxlLswdf057Cx9ZcrZ\"]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Howard Zucker, the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health. In a separate testimony, Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of New York City’s public health care system, said that “NYC Health + Hospitals have treated several children who, based upon information provided to us in the course of taking patient histories, were separated from their families at the southwestern United States border … for such condition as asthma, strep throat, and suicidal ideation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Lawmakers Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Both men visibly struggled to maintain their composure while recounting the trauma that they experienced since coming to the United States and ultimately broke down into tears. Our interpreter too broke down into tears, finding their stories too painful to bear.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, a Democratic congressman for Maryland, visited a detention center last month in Glen Burnie, Maryland, while the Trump administration was still separating children under its “zero tolerance” policy. There, he met two men who had been separated from their children under the policy. One of the men, identified as Carlos, fled Honduras with his 7-year-old son and reached the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas. He was arrested by border agents in March. The father, who said he was fleeing gang violence, wanted to claim asylum at the port of entry. Days later, Carlos was separated from his son. “Three months passed before Carlos was able to speak to his son again,” according to Ruppersberger’s testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Carlos had the foresight to make his son memorize a relative’s phone number before they left Honduras. As a result, his son was able to contact the relative, who connected him to another family member in the United States. Carlos still did not know when he would be able to see his son again,” the congressman added.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Spotlighting 12 stories that offer a window into what’s has been happening under the family separation policy.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1530853768,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":2259},"headData":{"title":"New Testimony Paints Bleak Picture of Family Separation | KQED","description":"Spotlighting 12 stories that offer a window into what’s has been happening under the family separation policy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"New Testimony Paints Bleak Picture of Family Separation","datePublished":"2018-07-06T16:00:37.000Z","dateModified":"2018-07-06T05:09:28.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"443202 https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/?p=443202","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2018/07/06/my-son-is-not-the-same-new-testimony-paints-bleak-picture-of-family-separation/","disqusTitle":"New Testimony Paints Bleak Picture of Family Separation","source":"Health","nprByline":"Lisa Desjardins\u003cbr />Joshua Barajas\u003cbr />Daniel Bush\u003cbr />PBS Health NewsHour","path":"/futureofyou/443202/my-son-is-not-the-same-new-testimony-paints-bleak-picture-of-family-separation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last week, Democratic attorneys general in 17 states and the District of Columbia \u003ca href=\"https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploadedfiles/Another/News/Press_Releases/complaint_6.pdf\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against the Trump administration, arguing that its family separation policy violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fifth Amendment. Now, in a new filing, they’re asking the federal government to provide more immediate information and access to those detained under the policy on an “expedited schedule.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The motion \u003ca href=\"https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/child_declarations.pdf\">filed Monday\u003c/a> came with more than 900 pages of declarations that included personal testimonies from parents, children and other family members who were directly impacted by the Trump policy. It also included declarations from the state attorneys general offices, elected representatives, advocates and child and immigration experts who have dealt with families separated at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump signed an executive order on June 20, halting the separation practice and ordering families to be detained together instead. But in a statement, the attorneys general criticized the administration’s response. “Hundreds of separated parents are in federal custody and the Administration can move them to other facilities at any time without notice,” they said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The PBS NewsHour reached out to the federal agencies involved in the separation of families at the border — the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services; U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — for a response. All said they were unable to comment on ongoing litigation. The Department of Justice also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday the agency was prepared to reunite separated children with their parents, and would prioritize children under age 5 starting next week. But Azar, speaking to reporters, said families that have been reunited could still experience long stays in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how the lawsuit filed by the attorneys general would impact the administration’s efforts to reunify separated families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NewsHour read through all 99 declarations and pulled 12 that offer a window into what’s has been happening under the family separation policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Parents Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“(My son) is not the same since we were reunited. I thought that, because he is so young he would not be traumatized by this experience, but he does not separate from me. He cries when he does not see me. That behavior is not normal. In El Salvador he would stay with his dad or my sister and not cry. Now he cries for fear of being alone.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Olivia Caceres was separated from her 1-year-old son in November at a legal point of entry. The boy’s father, who was seeking asylum, remains detained, Caceres said. It took three months for Caceres to get her son back from government custody. According to her testimony, she said that after reuniting with her toddler, “he continued to cry when we got home and would hold on to my leg and would not let me go. When I took off his clothes he was full of dirt and lice. It seemed like they had not bathed him the 85 days he was away from us.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“They told me to sign a consent form to take my daughter, but that it did not matter whether or not I signed, because they were going to take her either way.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Angelica Rebeca Gonzalez-Garcia was apprehended and separated from her 7-year-old daughter in May. She hasn’t seen her since. She said officers at the border told her she would never see her daughter again, and that she had “‘endangered’ her by bringing her here,” she wrote. “I cannot express the pain and fear I felt at that point,” she wrote. Gonzalez-Garcia said she has spoken by phone to her daughter, who is currently in a shelter and said that she had been hit by a boy, was bruised and had gotten sick there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“…One of the officers asked me, “In Guatemala do they celebrate Mother’s Day?” When I answered yes he said, “then Happy Mother’s Day” because the next Sunday was Mother’s Day. I lowered my head so that my daughter would not see the tears forming in my eyes. That particular act of cruelty astonished me then as it does now. I could not understand why they hated me so much, or wanted to hurt me so much,” she wrote as part of her statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“For eight days I was held in a small room with over 60 men. We called it The Freezer because the air conditioning was so strong that we felt like ice. The men got sick inside and we had to sleep, use the toilet, and pass the time all in the same tiny room.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— “L. Doe,” the father to a 5-year-old son and 1.5-year-old daughter, wrote that he and his family presented themselves at a port of entry to apply for asylum. They were separated immediately. He remains in detention. “My thoughts run in circles, and I feel as though I am going to lose my mind. I need to see my family and take care of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“[The children] did not have shoes or blankets in the detention center, and there were people in the cells that had to sleep standing up. They did not have enough to eat either, and could not drink the water, because of the chlorine they added to it … the incarcerated children were insulted – called named such as “animals” and “donkeys.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ludin Jimenez said she was separated from her children, age 9 and 17, when she crossed the border in May seeking asylum. The family was reunited June 28 in Boston. She wrote that she was kept in a cell with nearly 50 other mothers. “The officers told them that they could not eat because they were asking about their children. There was a pregnant woman who fainted from hunger.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to her statement, Jimenez was not allowed “to bathe or brush her teeth for the eight days that she spent in the ‘dog pound.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was an immigration officer who was a good person. He said that he understood what was going on, but could not help. He brought them cookies, since he knew they did not get enough to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“I am worried about M.’s mental health when he learns that we have to start the process again and that he is not going to be released soon.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Francisco Serrano, a Washington, D.C., resident whose niece Maria crossed the U.S. border at San Ysidro in Southern California with her two children, age 2 and 7, as part of a caravan. A week later, a shelter called Serrano, informing him that Maria was going to separated from her children, and that she had asked for Serrano to be a sponsor. Serrano describes trying to become an approved sponsor as a process marked by complications and insufficient communication. In June, he said a social worker told him he would have to restart the sponsorship process again “because the rules changed.” Maria is on her way to Washington, D.C., but the boys are still in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 7-year-old, identified in the declaration as “M.”, “asked me why I had not picked him up yet,” Serrano wrote. “The social worker told me that [he] is depressed and asked me for words of encouragement to cheer him up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Officials Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“The guards would wake all the girls up at 4 a.m. to count them by kicking on their mats. … G cried when she told me she kept hoping her mother would show up to take her out of that horrible place, but that never happened. … G overheard a girl asking to make a phone call to her family, but she was told they did not allow girls to make phone calls while detained.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alma Poletti, an investigator for Washington’s attorney general, interviewed eight children who were separated from their families and sent to the Seattle area for care and detention. “The place was freezing …The girls placed their mats in the floor very close to one another, since there was not enough space to fit them more comfortably. Girls as young as 3 years old were detained in this place and without their mothers,” Poletti wrote. She said one girl, 14, referred to as “G,” “felt hungry most of the time she was there because the food they provided her wasn’t good in quality or quantity.” “G” couldn’t sleep through the night, Poletti added.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“The placement of children with sponsors who have not been subject to the degree of evaluation and screening required by New Jersey law in all other circumstances substantially increases the risk that such children will be abuse or neglected.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Christine Norbut-Beyer, the commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, said the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s rules for taking care of children placed in foster care are less rigorous than state laws in New Jersey. “The home study requirements in ORR policy also fall short of requirements imposed by New Jersey law on all other foster care or adoptive placements in the state,” she wrote. “This is important because it shows that a child’s conditions in custody under ORR might meet federal guidelines, but don’t meet state laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“ORR does not provide information to [relevant state agencies] about the specific location or placement of unaccompanied minors.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Marcela Ruiz, the chief of the Immigration and Refugees Program Branch of the California Department of Social Services, added in her statement that “state-funded programs that serve unaccompanied minors in California rely on the State’s funding to support outreach, identification, and referral services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Advocates Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“I simply cannot believe that my government could have done this to these people.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Taylor Levy, the legal coordinator for the nonprofit Annunciation House, testified that he had worked with asylum seekers at the border for nine years. “I have borne witness to countless stories of rape, torture and murder. Despite all of this, I have never been as emotionally impacted by anything as intensely as I have been working with these mothers and fathers as they desperately struggle to be reunited with their minor children.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“It is evident to [Kids in Need of Defense] that there is no consistent policy for ensuring communication among separated children and parents.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jennifer Podkul, policy director for KIND, which provides legal assistance to children in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Medical Experts Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Prolonged stress (also known as toxic stress) can permanently disrupt the structure and function of a child’s developing brain. These changes can manifest as greater likelihood of adopting unhealthy behaviors (e.g., smoking and illicit drug use), increased risk of diseases (e.g., obesity, heart disease and cancer), depression and socioeconomic inequalities.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Howard Zucker, the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health. In a separate testimony, Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of New York City’s public health care system, said that “NYC Health + Hospitals have treated several children who, based upon information provided to us in the course of taking patient histories, were separated from their families at the southwestern United States border … for such condition as asthma, strep throat, and suicidal ideation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Lawmakers Say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Both men visibly struggled to maintain their composure while recounting the trauma that they experienced since coming to the United States and ultimately broke down into tears. Our interpreter too broke down into tears, finding their stories too painful to bear.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, a Democratic congressman for Maryland, visited a detention center last month in Glen Burnie, Maryland, while the Trump administration was still separating children under its “zero tolerance” policy. There, he met two men who had been separated from their children under the policy. One of the men, identified as Carlos, fled Honduras with his 7-year-old son and reached the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas. He was arrested by border agents in March. The father, who said he was fleeing gang violence, wanted to claim asylum at the port of entry. Days later, Carlos was separated from his son. “Three months passed before Carlos was able to speak to his son again,” according to Ruppersberger’s testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Carlos had the foresight to make his son memorize a relative’s phone number before they left Honduras. As a result, his son was able to contact the relative, who connected him to another family member in the United States. 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Physician societies, government agencies, and others issue detailed recommendations for everything from who should receive cardiac stents to which antibiotics patients should get to avoid infections after knee surgery.[contextly_sidebar id=\"OZslp8wClgKtjgZF05JxjMNXhSPssdaO\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These documents are essential for the provision of evidence-based care, as opposed to seat-of-the-pants treatment that might be expedient or lucrative for doctors but less than ideal for patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, the most rigorous of those guidelines have been available for doctors to peruse in a single location: the government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC). NGC also takes the time to summarize the more than 4,000 guidelines it maintains, an indispensible service for the physicians who come to the site seeking information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a niche site, but the NGC draws an average of 200,000 visitors per month, according to AHRQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After roughly a decade of budget cuts, however, AHRQ has defunded the repository, effective July 16. While the recommendations will still exist elsewhere after that date, anyone hoping to find out, say, how best to treat a teenager with asthma, or who should have a particular test, will have to work harder to locate the most current guidance. The NGC itself will disappear.[contextly_sidebar id=\"9HkdwjjGHZqkrMUudb7y4ILOnDncrFEI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Killing these resources to save a few hundred thousand dollars per year is a penny-wise, pound-foolish decision, and your health and mine will be poorer for it,” said Dr. Kenny Lin, a family physician in Washington, D.C., who is also on the faculty at Georgetown University’s medical school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, similar repositories do exist, but the NGC’s criteria for inclusion were set by the National Academy of Medicine, which established a high bar for rigor that other clearinghouses might lack. In addition to physicians, other users of the NGC include state and local governments, medical schools and other educational institutions, and health care organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An AHRQ spokesperson acknowledged that “some clinicians and others may initially miss the NGC. But in today’s information-rich environment, they’ll have the ability to find guidelines in other places, such as with organizations that develop guidelines. Likewise, information about guidelines’ trustworthiness will be available from peer-reviewed publications and other sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others beg to differ. Dr. Roy Poses, a Brown University professor of medicine and president of the Foundation for Integrity and Responsibility in Medicine, said doctors “will be losing an important resource for research, education and evidence-based practice.” (It’s worth noting that some doctors are not fond of the proliferation of guidelines, which they blame for a culture of cookie-cutter care that’s bereft of art and flexibility — and that exposes them to liability if they happen to deviate from doctrine.)[contextly_sidebar id=\"uP9YVw1C4FCBYcJFLPHxKYEIBCgiiNn1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As lamentable as the loss of the NGC would be for doctors and patients, it’s hardly surprising. Its parent agency has been suffering death by 1,000 cuts for years. Despite a modest bump in its 2018 funding, the AHRQ’s $334 million annual budget is $120 million below its 2010 level, adjusted for inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NGC — whose fiscal year 2017 budget was $1.2 million, down from $2.1 million the year before — didn’t survive the chopping block. “The decision to end support for the NGC was an Agency decision based on assessing how best to use our current resources, including both appropriated dollars and dollars from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund,” the AHRQ spokesperson told STAT. The AHRQ budget for the 2019 fiscal year, as proposed by the Trump administration, “will re-focus support to only the highest priority research programs.” That doesn’t include the NGC — which is operated by ECRI, a health nonprofit — because it is considered a dissemination contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the date of death for the NGG barely a month away, America’s doctors — and their patients — may, to paraphrase another clearinghouse, already be losers. Perhaps some physician group would like to ride in like a white knight and provide the funding to keep the NGC alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AHRQ “is receiving expressions of interest from stakeholders who may wish to carry on NGC’s work,” according to the AHRQ spokesperson. “If the work continues, we may be able to provide more information in the future, such as listing those potential stakeholders and opportunities for the public to comment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that comes to pass, that funding, to borrow a phrase from politics, should be put in a lockbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This\u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/13/ahrq-practice-guidelines-clearinghouse-shutting-down/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> story\u003c/a> was originally published by STAT, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After roughly a decade of budget cuts, the repository has been defunded effective July 16. While the recommendations will still exist elsewhere after that date, doctors will have to work harder to locate the most current guidance.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1528933102,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":828},"headData":{"title":"Trump Administration To Shut Down Guidelines Bank for Doctors | KQED","description":"After roughly a decade of budget cuts, the repository has been defunded effective July 16. 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Physician societies, government agencies, and others issue detailed recommendations for everything from who should receive cardiac stents to which antibiotics patients should get to avoid infections after knee surgery.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These documents are essential for the provision of evidence-based care, as opposed to seat-of-the-pants treatment that might be expedient or lucrative for doctors but less than ideal for patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, the most rigorous of those guidelines have been available for doctors to peruse in a single location: the government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC). NGC also takes the time to summarize the more than 4,000 guidelines it maintains, an indispensible service for the physicians who come to the site seeking information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a niche site, but the NGC draws an average of 200,000 visitors per month, according to AHRQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After roughly a decade of budget cuts, however, AHRQ has defunded the repository, effective July 16. While the recommendations will still exist elsewhere after that date, anyone hoping to find out, say, how best to treat a teenager with asthma, or who should have a particular test, will have to work harder to locate the most current guidance. The NGC itself will disappear.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Killing these resources to save a few hundred thousand dollars per year is a penny-wise, pound-foolish decision, and your health and mine will be poorer for it,” said Dr. Kenny Lin, a family physician in Washington, D.C., who is also on the faculty at Georgetown University’s medical school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, similar repositories do exist, but the NGC’s criteria for inclusion were set by the National Academy of Medicine, which established a high bar for rigor that other clearinghouses might lack. In addition to physicians, other users of the NGC include state and local governments, medical schools and other educational institutions, and health care organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An AHRQ spokesperson acknowledged that “some clinicians and others may initially miss the NGC. But in today’s information-rich environment, they’ll have the ability to find guidelines in other places, such as with organizations that develop guidelines. Likewise, information about guidelines’ trustworthiness will be available from peer-reviewed publications and other sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others beg to differ. Dr. Roy Poses, a Brown University professor of medicine and president of the Foundation for Integrity and Responsibility in Medicine, said doctors “will be losing an important resource for research, education and evidence-based practice.” (It’s worth noting that some doctors are not fond of the proliferation of guidelines, which they blame for a culture of cookie-cutter care that’s bereft of art and flexibility — and that exposes them to liability if they happen to deviate from doctrine.)\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As lamentable as the loss of the NGC would be for doctors and patients, it’s hardly surprising. Its parent agency has been suffering death by 1,000 cuts for years. Despite a modest bump in its 2018 funding, the AHRQ’s $334 million annual budget is $120 million below its 2010 level, adjusted for inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NGC — whose fiscal year 2017 budget was $1.2 million, down from $2.1 million the year before — didn’t survive the chopping block. “The decision to end support for the NGC was an Agency decision based on assessing how best to use our current resources, including both appropriated dollars and dollars from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund,” the AHRQ spokesperson told STAT. The AHRQ budget for the 2019 fiscal year, as proposed by the Trump administration, “will re-focus support to only the highest priority research programs.” That doesn’t include the NGC — which is operated by ECRI, a health nonprofit — because it is considered a dissemination contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the date of death for the NGG barely a month away, America’s doctors — and their patients — may, to paraphrase another clearinghouse, already be losers. Perhaps some physician group would like to ride in like a white knight and provide the funding to keep the NGC alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AHRQ “is receiving expressions of interest from stakeholders who may wish to carry on NGC’s work,” according to the AHRQ spokesperson. “If the work continues, we may be able to provide more information in the future, such as listing those potential stakeholders and opportunities for the public to comment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that comes to pass, that funding, to borrow a phrase from politics, should be put in a lockbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This\u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/13/ahrq-practice-guidelines-clearinghouse-shutting-down/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> story\u003c/a> was originally published by STAT, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/442670/trump-administration-to-shut-down-guidelines-database-for-doctors","authors":["byline_futureofyou_442670"],"categories":["futureofyou_1","futureofyou_73"],"tags":["futureofyou_259","futureofyou_1176","futureofyou_952","futureofyou_1056"],"featImg":"futureofyou_427825","label":"source_futureofyou_442670"},"futureofyou_356209":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_356209","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"356209","score":null,"sort":[1489780775000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"for-some-republicans-nih-cuts-are-a-nonstarter","title":"For Some Republicans, NIH Cuts Are a Nonstarter","publishDate":1489780775,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>What goes on the chopping block: Research into cancer or Alzheimer's? A Zika vaccine or a treatment for superbugs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his budget blueprint Thursday, President Donald Trump called for cutting $5.8 billion from the National Institutes of Health. That's a staggering 18 percent drop for the $32 billion agency that funds much of the nation's research into what causes different diseases and what it will take to treat them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's proposal would roll back NIH's 2018 budget to about what it was in 2003. The president called for a \"major reorganization\" of NIH to stress the \"highest priority research,\" but only specifically targeted for elimination the $69 million Fogarty International Center that focuses on global health and has played a big role in HIV research abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's far from clear if Congress will agree to the cuts. The NIH has long experienced bipartisan support among lawmakers, who awarded the agency an extra $2 billion in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is coverage from around the web, pointing to Republican and other opposition to the proposed cuts. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article138974053.html\">Republicans queasy about Trump’s cuts to medical research\u003c/a> (McClatchy)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s budget would slash funding for the National Institutes of Health by nearly $6 billion, or 19 percent, a proposal that’s likely to run into staunch opposition from conservatives within Trump’s own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, Republicans helped secure the largest budget increase for NIH in more than a decade. Led by Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt and Rep. Kevin Yoder and Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, the effort resulted in a $2 billion jump in funding and enabled the NIH to give out 1,147 more grants nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP lawmakers again worked across the aisle in November to pass the bipartisan Cures Act, which would allocate more money to the NIH. It had less than Blunt, Yoder and Moran had wanted, but more than President Barack Obama had requested in his budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Trump released his budget on Thursday, proposing an NIH budget of about $26 billion, it quickly became apparent that the cuts to medical research were one of the few proposals that Republicans would be willing to criticize openly.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://theweek.com/speedreads/686585/gop-congressman-slams-trumps-proposed-cuts-nih-cdc-youre-much-more-likely-die-pandemic-than-terrorist-attack\">GOP congressman on Trump's proposed cuts to NIH, CDC: 'You're much more likely to die in a pandemic than a terrorist attack'\u003c/a> (The Week)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Rep. Tom) Cole argued that defense spending — which Trump's budget blueprint calls for ratcheting up by $54 billion — is no more important than investing in health research. \"You're much more likely to die in a pandemic than a terrorist attack, and so that's part of the defense of the country as well,\" Cole said. \"The CDC is what protects you from things like Ebola and Zika. The NIH, we have 1.6 million Americans a year that contract cancer. About 600,000 die. That is more people than died in the Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/trumps-budget-cuts-nih-funding-by-20-percent/519771/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump's Budget Proposal Cuts NIH Funding by 20 Percent\u003c/a> (The Atlantic)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The agency, which distributes funding to some 300,000 scientists worldwide, has seen its funding wax and wane over the last 20-odd years. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Congress doubled its funding each year, infusing the agency with cash. But for years afterward, the budgets stayed stagnant. Funding advocates explain that NIH didn’t lose its bipartisan support—other issues, like national defense, simply became more pressing. This hurt the agency’s ability to fund scientists’ research grants and labs’ ability to retain young researchers, and made planning for multi-year projects extremely difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists and NIH officials alike were encouraged by the recent enthusiasm around NIH. In an interview last year, agency Director Francis Collins said he hoped Congress would begin “a trend to get us back on a stable, predictable, upward trajectory.” At the time, lawmakers seemed mostly on board with that plan, as the Republican chairs of the relevant funding panels both supported future budget bumps. Congress hasn’t settled on funding for the 2017 fiscal year, but legislators planned for another NIH increase of up to $2 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now is how closely congressional Republicans will conform to the president’s proposal as they craft their own budgets, and how strongly the president’s staff will push for this particular cut.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/03/16/trump-nih-cuts-would-be-catastrophic-event-says-bush-era-nih-chief/#f055a74789c6\">Trump NIH Cuts Would Be 'Catastrophic Event,' Says Bush-Era NIH Chief\u003c/a> (Forbes)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Elias Zerhouni was nominated as director of the National Institutes of Health by George W. Bush in 2002, a role in which he served until 2008. Since 2011, he has run research and development at Sanofi, the world's fifth-largest drug company by sales. He says he's disturbed by the budget proposal of President Donald Trump. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will be a catastrophic event because the NIH funds grants over four or five years and therefore only has 20% of its budget to give at any one year,\" Zerhouni says. \"Therefore, if you cut it by $6 billion it means next year there will be no grants. It’s really ill-advised, I think, to change budgets so drastically so quickly. It will be very detrimental, especially on young investigators or new investigators, new science. It will set back the NIH significantly after years of stagnation, but recent support from Congress. I find it disturbing, to be honest with you.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-trump-budget-nih-20170316-story.html\">20% cut to NIH budget would leave Americans more vulnerable to cancer and other diseases, experts warn\u003c/a> (L.A. Times)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Even scientists that have been critical of the NIH rallied to its defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Craig Venter, a genetics pioneer and chief executive of the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, said the proposed cuts would forfeit American primacy in a sector where the United States enjoys “absolutely dominant leadership in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an engine that drives our entire economy,” he said. “Our federal money can be better spent. But cutting these budgets will only make it 10 times worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with bare-bones budgets, Venter said, the NIH will put an end to any high-risk research. Like a drug company whose new CEO cuts costs by axing research and development, the U.S. could soon see its pipeline of innovative therapies has gone dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ones that suffer most are new investigators with new ideas,” he said. “It’ll just be a disaster for the U.S. economy.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/16/14940444/2018-budget-trump-science-nih\">Trump’s budget is everything scientists have been fearing\u003c/a> (Vox)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Already, competition for NIH grants is intense. Its funding has basically plateaued over the past decade. At the same time, the cost of research keeps increasing, and an ever-growing pool of PhDs is competing for a relatively smaller pile of grant money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider this: In 2000, more than 30 percent of NIH grant applications got approved. Today, it’s closer to 17 percent. It’s not crazy math: The less money there is to go around, the fewer projects get funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Hourihan, when the NIH’s budget dropped 5 percent from sequestration cuts, they had to cut around 700 individual grants (out of about 9,000). With a 20 percent cut, “we’re likely talking about [grant] cuts in the hundreds, if not the thousands,” he says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The first hearing by the subcommittee that oversees NIH is scheduled for Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Trump's proposal would roll back NIH's 2018 budget to about what it was in 2003. But it's far from clear if Congress will agree to the cuts, as NIH has long experienced bipartisan support.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1489782825,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1273},"headData":{"title":"For Some Republicans, NIH Cuts Are a Nonstarter | KQED","description":"Trump's proposal would roll back NIH's 2018 budget to about what it was in 2003. 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A Zika vaccine or a treatment for superbugs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his budget blueprint Thursday, President Donald Trump called for cutting $5.8 billion from the National Institutes of Health. That's a staggering 18 percent drop for the $32 billion agency that funds much of the nation's research into what causes different diseases and what it will take to treat them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's proposal would roll back NIH's 2018 budget to about what it was in 2003. The president called for a \"major reorganization\" of NIH to stress the \"highest priority research,\" but only specifically targeted for elimination the $69 million Fogarty International Center that focuses on global health and has played a big role in HIV research abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's far from clear if Congress will agree to the cuts. The NIH has long experienced bipartisan support among lawmakers, who awarded the agency an extra $2 billion in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is coverage from around the web, pointing to Republican and other opposition to the proposed cuts. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article138974053.html\">Republicans queasy about Trump’s cuts to medical research\u003c/a> (McClatchy)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s budget would slash funding for the National Institutes of Health by nearly $6 billion, or 19 percent, a proposal that’s likely to run into staunch opposition from conservatives within Trump’s own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, Republicans helped secure the largest budget increase for NIH in more than a decade. Led by Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt and Rep. Kevin Yoder and Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, the effort resulted in a $2 billion jump in funding and enabled the NIH to give out 1,147 more grants nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP lawmakers again worked across the aisle in November to pass the bipartisan Cures Act, which would allocate more money to the NIH. It had less than Blunt, Yoder and Moran had wanted, but more than President Barack Obama had requested in his budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Trump released his budget on Thursday, proposing an NIH budget of about $26 billion, it quickly became apparent that the cuts to medical research were one of the few proposals that Republicans would be willing to criticize openly.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://theweek.com/speedreads/686585/gop-congressman-slams-trumps-proposed-cuts-nih-cdc-youre-much-more-likely-die-pandemic-than-terrorist-attack\">GOP congressman on Trump's proposed cuts to NIH, CDC: 'You're much more likely to die in a pandemic than a terrorist attack'\u003c/a> (The Week)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Rep. Tom) Cole argued that defense spending — which Trump's budget blueprint calls for ratcheting up by $54 billion — is no more important than investing in health research. \"You're much more likely to die in a pandemic than a terrorist attack, and so that's part of the defense of the country as well,\" Cole said. \"The CDC is what protects you from things like Ebola and Zika. The NIH, we have 1.6 million Americans a year that contract cancer. About 600,000 die. That is more people than died in the Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/trumps-budget-cuts-nih-funding-by-20-percent/519771/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump's Budget Proposal Cuts NIH Funding by 20 Percent\u003c/a> (The Atlantic)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The agency, which distributes funding to some 300,000 scientists worldwide, has seen its funding wax and wane over the last 20-odd years. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Congress doubled its funding each year, infusing the agency with cash. But for years afterward, the budgets stayed stagnant. Funding advocates explain that NIH didn’t lose its bipartisan support—other issues, like national defense, simply became more pressing. This hurt the agency’s ability to fund scientists’ research grants and labs’ ability to retain young researchers, and made planning for multi-year projects extremely difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists and NIH officials alike were encouraged by the recent enthusiasm around NIH. In an interview last year, agency Director Francis Collins said he hoped Congress would begin “a trend to get us back on a stable, predictable, upward trajectory.” At the time, lawmakers seemed mostly on board with that plan, as the Republican chairs of the relevant funding panels both supported future budget bumps. Congress hasn’t settled on funding for the 2017 fiscal year, but legislators planned for another NIH increase of up to $2 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now is how closely congressional Republicans will conform to the president’s proposal as they craft their own budgets, and how strongly the president’s staff will push for this particular cut.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/03/16/trump-nih-cuts-would-be-catastrophic-event-says-bush-era-nih-chief/#f055a74789c6\">Trump NIH Cuts Would Be 'Catastrophic Event,' Says Bush-Era NIH Chief\u003c/a> (Forbes)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Elias Zerhouni was nominated as director of the National Institutes of Health by George W. Bush in 2002, a role in which he served until 2008. Since 2011, he has run research and development at Sanofi, the world's fifth-largest drug company by sales. He says he's disturbed by the budget proposal of President Donald Trump. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will be a catastrophic event because the NIH funds grants over four or five years and therefore only has 20% of its budget to give at any one year,\" Zerhouni says. \"Therefore, if you cut it by $6 billion it means next year there will be no grants. It’s really ill-advised, I think, to change budgets so drastically so quickly. It will be very detrimental, especially on young investigators or new investigators, new science. It will set back the NIH significantly after years of stagnation, but recent support from Congress. I find it disturbing, to be honest with you.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-trump-budget-nih-20170316-story.html\">20% cut to NIH budget would leave Americans more vulnerable to cancer and other diseases, experts warn\u003c/a> (L.A. Times)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Even scientists that have been critical of the NIH rallied to its defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Craig Venter, a genetics pioneer and chief executive of the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, said the proposed cuts would forfeit American primacy in a sector where the United States enjoys “absolutely dominant leadership in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an engine that drives our entire economy,” he said. “Our federal money can be better spent. But cutting these budgets will only make it 10 times worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with bare-bones budgets, Venter said, the NIH will put an end to any high-risk research. Like a drug company whose new CEO cuts costs by axing research and development, the U.S. could soon see its pipeline of innovative therapies has gone dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ones that suffer most are new investigators with new ideas,” he said. “It’ll just be a disaster for the U.S. economy.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/16/14940444/2018-budget-trump-science-nih\">Trump’s budget is everything scientists have been fearing\u003c/a> (Vox)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Already, competition for NIH grants is intense. Its funding has basically plateaued over the past decade. At the same time, the cost of research keeps increasing, and an ever-growing pool of PhDs is competing for a relatively smaller pile of grant money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider this: In 2000, more than 30 percent of NIH grant applications got approved. Today, it’s closer to 17 percent. It’s not crazy math: The less money there is to go around, the fewer projects get funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Hourihan, when the NIH’s budget dropped 5 percent from sequestration cuts, they had to cut around 700 individual grants (out of about 9,000). With a 20 percent cut, “we’re likely talking about [grant] cuts in the hundreds, if not the thousands,” he says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The first hearing by the subcommittee that oversees NIH is scheduled for Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/356209/for-some-republicans-nih-cuts-are-a-nonstarter","authors":["byline_futureofyou_356209"],"categories":["futureofyou_452","futureofyou_1","futureofyou_73"],"tags":["futureofyou_1214","futureofyou_1176","futureofyou_22","futureofyou_1212"],"featImg":"futureofyou_356259","label":"source_futureofyou_356209"},"futureofyou_330784":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_330784","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"330784","score":null,"sort":[1486167896000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"trump-executive-order-has-biomed-scientists-worried","title":"Trump Executive Order on Immigration Has Biomed Scientists Worried","publishDate":1486167896,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\">\u003cspan class=\"big-cap\">T\u003c/span>he Iranian scientist was a catch: a prize-winning young pharmacologist with \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Seyed_Soheil_Saeedi_Saravi\" target=\"_blank\">over 40\u003c/a> publications to his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">“He is exactly the kind of person we would like to bring to the United States,” said Dr. Thomas Michel, who hired Seyed Soheil Saeedi Saravi as a postdoctoral fellow in his lab at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">But not only would Saravi spend his time in Boston trying to figure out how diabetes affects a heart’s ability to beat; he would also be acting as a kind of scientific diplomat.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Travel restrictions aren’t just a problem for individual researchers or labs, scientists say. They threaten cross-border collaboration that taps talent and ideas.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">“This would have led to a collaboration between my lab and the lab of his mentor in Tehran,” said Michel, a cardiologist and biochemist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">That plan was scuttled by President Trump’s executive order on immigration, which barred nationals from seven majority-Muslim countries, including Iran, from entering the United States. Saravi was supposed to fly to Boston from his native Iran this month, but his visa was suspended because of last Friday’s order. On Wednesday, because there is no \u003ca href=\"https://ir.usembassy.gov/tehran/\" target=\"_blank\">US embassy or consulate\u003c/a> in Iran, he went to the consulate in Dubai — over 2,000 miles away from his home in Tehran — to try to get answers. But a security guard wouldn’t even let him enter the office, Saravi told STAT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">For Saravi, the whole process has been nightmarish. But travel restrictions aren’t just a problem for individual researchers like him, or for the labs where they were slated to work. They threaten cross-border collaborations that tap talent and ideas from elsewhere and hasten discoveries, scientists said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those kinds of collaborations begin with an encounter at a scientific conference, or, as this one would have, with a student or postdoc coming to train in the United States, and then going elsewhere to start another lab. By working with a different team — or multiple teams around the world — scientists may entertain hypotheses they might not have considered, and can enlist patients from other countries who would not have been able to participate in their study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban affects more researchers from Iran and Iraq than from the other five countries, in part because more Iranians and Iraqis come to the United States every year on the types of visas given to scientists. In the 2015 fiscal year, there were 847 Iraqis and 820 Iranians here on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/31/visas-doctors-scientists-patients/\" target=\"_blank\">J1 visa\u003c/a>, which is given to postdocs and medical residents, while there were only 122 from Syria, and even fewer from the other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About 50 percent of our members are located outside of the US; the reason for this is that science is global,” said Stefano Bertuzzi, executive director of the American Society for Microbiology, who was adamant that his organization is nonpartisan and willing to work with the new administration. But to him, the travel ban sends a message that is dangerous for science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t find all your expertise in one country, even in a country that is the size of a continent, like the United States,” he said. “Our work is on preventing, curing, and diagnosing infectious diseases. If we don’t work together on that, the whole society will collapse, or at least take a big hit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His inbox has exploded with emails from organizers and attendees of the ASM Microbe meeting in New Orleans this coming June who are worried about the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been inundated,” Bertuzzi said. Even those who would be able to get into the country are telling him they won’t come to the United States until Trump’s order is no longer in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you I have received emails saying, ‘We have already collected abstracts from people from these countries’ … ‘I don’t want to organize a meeting in the US,’ ‘I want to withdraw my abstract.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Mehdi Farokhnia is a postdoc who studies alcohol addiction at the National Institutes of Health. His work depends on being able to meet and exchange ideas with scientists at conferences. Last year, that took him to Scotland, Japan, and Canada. And even though he has American citizenship, he’s also a citizen of Iran, and now he won’t leave the United States for fear of not being let back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a dual citizen, so I am somehow lucky in this situation, but it’s very, very stressful,” he said. “I don’t feel confident now to leave the country because I’m a dual citizen and nothing is clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many worry about the ban affecting the quality of clinical studies, by making it harder to include patients with different genetic backgrounds, experiences, and environmental exposures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By decreasing diversity in science, the bias in science will increase,” said Dr. Elmira Hassanzadeh, an Iranian radiology resident at the University of Illinois at Chicago who spent the last two years as a researcher at Harvard. “If I’m an Iranian … I will collaborate with my Iranian peers. If there is a hospital that is doing the same kind of project, I can just pool our population and we can run a multi-center study. These are considered a very strong sort of data. If I’m not welcome here, my resources back home will also not be welcome here, and that will affect collaboration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One public health professor at a major American university, who didn’t want to be identified for fear of being targeted by the government for speaking out against the ban, is worried about collaborations like her own. While she was a postdoc at Harvard, she met some graduate students from one of the countries covered by the travel ban. After they took faculty positions in their home country, the team kept up discussions about public health, and in the last decade or so, that friendship has allowed them to coauthor eight to 10 scientific papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worries not only that the executive order could interrupt her own fruitful collaboration — “It hinders our ability to interact and communicate in person,” she said — but also that it will stop other potential teams from meeting each other in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saravi is devastated. Doing research at Harvard was a “childhood dream,” he said, and he spent 16 months trying to secure his visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Michel sees this as a loss for Americans as much as it is for Saravi: “This is really the lifeblood of Boston biomedicine, foreign nationals who represent the best and brightest of their nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kate Sheridan contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/03/travel-ban-trump-scientific-collaboration/\">story\u003c/a> was originally published by STAT, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Scientists are concerned the president's executive order on immigration will threaten cross-border collaboration that fosters news ideas and discoveries.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1486171369,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1205},"headData":{"title":"Trump Executive Order on Immigration Has Biomed Scientists Worried | KQED","description":"Scientists are concerned the president's executive order on immigration will threaten cross-border collaboration that fosters news ideas and discoveries.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Trump Executive Order on Immigration Has Biomed Scientists Worried","datePublished":"2017-02-04T00:24:56.000Z","dateModified":"2017-02-04T01:22:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"330784 https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/?p=330784","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2017/02/03/trump-executive-order-has-biomed-scientists-worried/","disqusTitle":"Trump Executive Order on Immigration Has Biomed Scientists Worried","source":"STAT","sourceUrl":"https://www.statnews.com/","customPermalink":"2017/02/03/Trump_executive_order/","nprByline":"Eric Boodman\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/\">STAT\u003c/a>","path":"/futureofyou/330784/trump-executive-order-has-biomed-scientists-worried","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\">\u003cspan class=\"big-cap\">T\u003c/span>he Iranian scientist was a catch: a prize-winning young pharmacologist with \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Seyed_Soheil_Saeedi_Saravi\" target=\"_blank\">over 40\u003c/a> publications to his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">“He is exactly the kind of person we would like to bring to the United States,” said Dr. Thomas Michel, who hired Seyed Soheil Saeedi Saravi as a postdoctoral fellow in his lab at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">But not only would Saravi spend his time in Boston trying to figure out how diabetes affects a heart’s ability to beat; he would also be acting as a kind of scientific diplomat.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Travel restrictions aren’t just a problem for individual researchers or labs, scientists say. They threaten cross-border collaboration that taps talent and ideas.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">“This would have led to a collaboration between my lab and the lab of his mentor in Tehran,” said Michel, a cardiologist and biochemist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">That plan was scuttled by President Trump’s executive order on immigration, which barred nationals from seven majority-Muslim countries, including Iran, from entering the United States. Saravi was supposed to fly to Boston from his native Iran this month, but his visa was suspended because of last Friday’s order. On Wednesday, because there is no \u003ca href=\"https://ir.usembassy.gov/tehran/\" target=\"_blank\">US embassy or consulate\u003c/a> in Iran, he went to the consulate in Dubai — over 2,000 miles away from his home in Tehran — to try to get answers. But a security guard wouldn’t even let him enter the office, Saravi told STAT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">For Saravi, the whole process has been nightmarish. But travel restrictions aren’t just a problem for individual researchers like him, or for the labs where they were slated to work. They threaten cross-border collaborations that tap talent and ideas from elsewhere and hasten discoveries, scientists said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those kinds of collaborations begin with an encounter at a scientific conference, or, as this one would have, with a student or postdoc coming to train in the United States, and then going elsewhere to start another lab. By working with a different team — or multiple teams around the world — scientists may entertain hypotheses they might not have considered, and can enlist patients from other countries who would not have been able to participate in their study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban affects more researchers from Iran and Iraq than from the other five countries, in part because more Iranians and Iraqis come to the United States every year on the types of visas given to scientists. In the 2015 fiscal year, there were 847 Iraqis and 820 Iranians here on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/31/visas-doctors-scientists-patients/\" target=\"_blank\">J1 visa\u003c/a>, which is given to postdocs and medical residents, while there were only 122 from Syria, and even fewer from the other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About 50 percent of our members are located outside of the US; the reason for this is that science is global,” said Stefano Bertuzzi, executive director of the American Society for Microbiology, who was adamant that his organization is nonpartisan and willing to work with the new administration. But to him, the travel ban sends a message that is dangerous for science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t find all your expertise in one country, even in a country that is the size of a continent, like the United States,” he said. “Our work is on preventing, curing, and diagnosing infectious diseases. If we don’t work together on that, the whole society will collapse, or at least take a big hit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His inbox has exploded with emails from organizers and attendees of the ASM Microbe meeting in New Orleans this coming June who are worried about the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been inundated,” Bertuzzi said. Even those who would be able to get into the country are telling him they won’t come to the United States until Trump’s order is no longer in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you I have received emails saying, ‘We have already collected abstracts from people from these countries’ … ‘I don’t want to organize a meeting in the US,’ ‘I want to withdraw my abstract.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Mehdi Farokhnia is a postdoc who studies alcohol addiction at the National Institutes of Health. His work depends on being able to meet and exchange ideas with scientists at conferences. Last year, that took him to Scotland, Japan, and Canada. And even though he has American citizenship, he’s also a citizen of Iran, and now he won’t leave the United States for fear of not being let back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a dual citizen, so I am somehow lucky in this situation, but it’s very, very stressful,” he said. “I don’t feel confident now to leave the country because I’m a dual citizen and nothing is clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many worry about the ban affecting the quality of clinical studies, by making it harder to include patients with different genetic backgrounds, experiences, and environmental exposures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By decreasing diversity in science, the bias in science will increase,” said Dr. Elmira Hassanzadeh, an Iranian radiology resident at the University of Illinois at Chicago who spent the last two years as a researcher at Harvard. “If I’m an Iranian … I will collaborate with my Iranian peers. If there is a hospital that is doing the same kind of project, I can just pool our population and we can run a multi-center study. These are considered a very strong sort of data. If I’m not welcome here, my resources back home will also not be welcome here, and that will affect collaboration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One public health professor at a major American university, who didn’t want to be identified for fear of being targeted by the government for speaking out against the ban, is worried about collaborations like her own. While she was a postdoc at Harvard, she met some graduate students from one of the countries covered by the travel ban. After they took faculty positions in their home country, the team kept up discussions about public health, and in the last decade or so, that friendship has allowed them to coauthor eight to 10 scientific papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worries not only that the executive order could interrupt her own fruitful collaboration — “It hinders our ability to interact and communicate in person,” she said — but also that it will stop other potential teams from meeting each other in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saravi is devastated. 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