内容摘要：The screening process for potential organ donors in the U.S. includes questions about changes in donors’ mental states and testing for viruses and infections.

The screening process for potential organ donors in the U.S. includes questions about changes in donors’ mental states and testing for viruses and infections.

Federal officials have not given a public accounting of specific surveillance programs that are being eliminated.Instead, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman pointed the AP to a Trump administration budget proposal released Friday. It lacked specifics, but proposes to cut the CDC’s core budget by more than half and vows to focus CDC surveillance only on emerging and infectious diseases.

Kennedy has said some of the CDC’s other work will be moved to a yet-to-be-created agency, the. He also has said that the cuts are designed to get rid of waste at a department that has seen its budget grow in recent years.“Unfortunately, this extra spending and staff has not improved our nation’s health as a country,”

in The New York Post. “Instead, it has only created more waste, administrative bloat and duplication.”Yet some health experts say the eliminated programs are not duplicative, and erasing them will leave Americans in the dark.

“If the U.S. is interested in making itself healthier again, how is it going to know, if it cancels the programs that helps us understand these diseases?” said Graham Mooney, a Johns Hopkins University public health historian.

The core of the nation’s health surveillance is done by the CDC’s— the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism. KFF Health News is the publisher of

, an editorially independent service of the. A version of this story was also published by Univision Noticias.

KOKOMO, Miss. (AP) — Myrtle, a cherished pet tortoise, has been reunited with its family in Mississippi weeks after disappearing during a deadly“He’s been through a lot,” said Myrtle’s grateful owner, Tiffany Emanuel. “I know that he knows just as much as I do that every step of the way I’m going to be there helping him, caring for him, making sure he gets, you know, the help that he needs.”